VOTED! Did you vote yet? What type of machine/process in your area?

[DemoRabbit]

Hubby and I decided to get it done early this time around... we went about 9 this morning. 2 more votes for Obama!

Here in NY, we are still using the old green voting manual-lever voting booths. How about in your area?

It angers me that we don't have a secure, efficient, CONSISTENT way to vote across this country. With the technology available, we should all be able to vote without registering (based on social security number) and should be able to vote anywhere there are machines... and those machines should be the SAME everywhere, with a paper trail, and secure.

So did you vote yet? What type of equipment?

[billyoc]

1. I fear this is the last election that we'll be using the old one-armed bandits.

:cry:

[Horse with no Name]

2. Paper and pen

There was one machine but out of the 20 or so people voting when I was there--only ONE was using the bandit box.

[Marrah_G]

3. Massachusetts- Paper ballots w/opti-scanners

[SE_Ohio_Dem]

4. Hamilton County - Ohio. OptiScanner. Worked great.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. Voted here in NY with the good old reliable lever! Yay Obama!

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Same here (Westchester). No ballot-box shenanigans with THOSE things!

:kick::kick::kick:

[Betty88]

23. me too, nice line at 6am

first time I have seen that in Park Slope, it was kind of cool

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

24. I mentioned to poll workers that I didn't expect it so empty (this was at 9AM) and they said at 6AM

the line was out the door. People voting before they went to work. A heavy turn-up is good!

:hi:

[MadinMo]

7. Jasper County, Missouri. Voted with a paper & pen ballot which then runs through a scanner.

At first I worried about blue pen not being "kosher", but decided the scanner would spit it out if not acceptable.

I was number 75 at a little after 7:00 a.m. CST at this tiny rural polling place.

[timtom]

8. Voted

Paper ballots (connect the arrow tail to the arrow head)

[lazyriver]

9. 7:35 this morning in northern Maine. I filled out a paper ballot and

dropped it in the old wooden box with two big ol' brass locks on it. I love dropping my ballot in that box each year.

[RebelOne]

10. I voted by absentee ballot here in Georgia.

Which, of course, is a paper ballot. But last time I voted in my district, the machines were the touch screens.

[greguganus]

11. North Carolina: Paper ballot inserted into scanner. n/t

[ramapo]

12. Sequoia with no audit trail

Bergen County , NJ. Been using these machines for a number of years. I've never noticed a problem but who knows what happens to your vote. There is now a requirement for a printed receipt but the machines couldn't be retrofitted in time. But I'm not sure what good the receipt does either unless you drop it in a lockbox as an audit trail

[Blue Belle]

13. Paper & Pen mail-in ballots in Oregon...

although I wish I hadn't voted with a pen. There were a few ballot measures that I voted wrong - I hate how they word these measures - you think you are voting for one thing and in reality you end up approving the opposite.

[DemoRabbit]

17. We had one here in NY like that

I had to read the stupid thing 3 times before I understood what I was voting yes or no on!

[RB TexLa]

14. I filled in the ovals on a piece of paper in the comfort of my kitchen.

[Greyhound]

15. Oregon, 100% mail-in. n/t

[Mari333]

16. voted here just now, small small town and TONS of people

I have never seen it this busy..ever..it was 9 am in the morning and the place was PACKED!!!!! lots of people with a sense of glee, I had a feeling they were obama voters. just packed.
I voted on paper. we just combine the arrows with a black pen, then put the ballot into a machine. I checked the paper trail to make sure my vote was recorded and there were no problems/
some people seemed confused, but I honestly think it was their first time voting.

[47of74]

18. Pen and paper ballot with optical reader

I voted way back in the first part of October, I believe in fact it was like the first or second day that people could early vote. I was applying for a passport in case my family ever wants to go on the cruise we were thinking about doing a few years down the road and decided as long as I was down at the courthouse applying for the thing I might as well go across the street to the early voting station and do my thing right then and there.

Where I live in Iowa if I were to go to my regular polling place on the actual election day the ballots are the ones where there's two blocks by each candidate's name, and you take a marker and connect the two blocks together for the people you want. However, when I vote early then they use the ballots where you take a pen and fill in the circle by each candidate's name.

[MorningGlow]

19. Big ol' lever machine

I love 'em! Such a satisfying "grrrCHUNK" when you pull the arm.

[libnnc]

20. paper and pen

fill in the bubble

[L. Coyote]

21. Last week I dropped my ballot at a court house in Oregon.

In Oregon, you can drop your mail-in ballot at various 'secure' sites, court houses and city halls, with official ballot drop sites. This is the official ballot drop box at the Lincoln County court house in Newport, on the Oregon Coast.

ø„¸¨°º¤ø„¸  ¸„ø¤º°¨ ¸„ø¤º°¨
¨°º¤ø„¸  I VOTED  ¸„ø¤º°¨
¸„ø¤º°¨   OBAMA   °º¤ø„¸
¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º° ¨¨°º¤ø„¸¨°º¤ø

You can also drop ballots in the Elections office, for added security.
In some court houses, that means going through the metal detector hassle,
so the drive by drop box is very convenient, and saves the postage too.

[ivycat]

22. voted here in Warrick County IN

I originaly planned to vote later this morning, since I don't have to work until later this afternoon. My husband came home from voting and said there was a line. He waited about an hour. I went early and had to wait about 20 to 30 minutes. I've NEVER had to wait to vote where I live before.

[Cadfael]

25. DuPage County, IL(Milton 90)

2 more Obama votes here! - paper ballot/optical scan - according to a pollwatcher in the precinct no one has gone near the touch screen (there is only one per polling place here)