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Flashless shot -- Kate Anne voting for Obama-Biden on Row E, Working Families Party line! Please, God! -- Queens, NYC
This is the second and last week of training I and several other people have been involved in. We will be working for the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's Office. We are part of a Mobile Voting Unit that will be deployed in ten different areas all over L.A., County. There are five teams, so that means fifty locations will have voting in-person facilities. We have spent this time learning the equipment. We learned to use the voting machines, the check-in machines; how to set everything up, from the canopies to the machines to the signs and even the gloves, hand sanitizer and masks to be available to the voters.
This is not the group I am with. They just had a nice looking setup with a nice background. Our group did well (and, like this group, we set up and took down in a pretty fast time), but our background wasn't as attractive. Those photos will show up later.
A grand, old-fashioned voting machine at my poling place. Move red lever to the right to close the curtain and enable the levers; move red lever to the left to vote and open the curtains. Sorry -- how have we improved on that?
This was on the second to last full day of training at our Downey "facility," which was just an empty parking lot the County commandeered to use for such purposes. It was also a windy day. That's why the kiosks were down. Normally, there would be something, perhaps sandbags, that would keep them straightened up.
It wasn't long after I took this photo when the whole thing was taken down, boxed up, and put back into the truck. That was also part of the training. These mobile units could (and did) go everywhere.
However, I found out later that the five mobile units averaged about 120 ballots a day. The voter turnout was low. What happened was that more people were using the mail-in ballots to vote, dropping them off mostly at the drop-off boxes, with the rest in mailboxes. It's likely that had there not been a pandemic that more people would have come out to vote. But using the mail-in ballot (which every registered voter in California received) was considered the safer substitute.
This thing in the back is where the ballot goes once the voting is done. The voter uses a touch-screen pad to make their selections. They check in, get a blank ballot (bland except for the bar code at the top corner), and they go to the machine. They select their language, then they put the paper in the slot to be fed into the printer. They cast their votes by touching the screen, and then they can inspect their choices, in case they want to change their mind, or they touched the wrong choice. Once that is done, they touch print, and the machine prints out the ballot for the voter to see. If it also looks acceptable, they feed it back into the printer, where it then is officially cast and drops into this secured plastic container.
This container has a zip-tie with a bar code number to it. The side is sealed with a special tape that changes color to indicate that someone tried to tamper with it. This back does not open until 200 ballots fill it up. Then a worker (like me) will break the zip-tie (after scanning the number), break the seal, open the back, and take out the ballots. Then a report paper is inserted to print out the exact number of ballots in there. They are put in a box and that box is sealed and remains secured until it is returned to the home office.
After the report is printed, the worker will put a new zip-tie on the container, put a new secure tape on it, and it can be used again until 200 more ballots are put in there (or until the end of the voting day).
This Handmaid'sTale-style yellow cowl is used to protect the voter from being seen by any other voter. Just like the old fashioned way people voted with pen and paper.
Also, the touch screen is not a computer. It does not hold memory. It only reads what data is on the bar code printed at the check-in desk. No one can hack the voting machine. It is technically and physically impossible. Our check-in areas use iPads specially designed for this kind of work. It is attached to a router that is encrypted and gets its info from the main office. It too cannot be hacked.
Item 1, Folder 8-1-3, Election Canvasses and Certifications (Record Series 1802-B4)Seattle Municipal Archives.
The former Ann Lee Nursing Home in Colonie, New York, now closed and used for storage of voting machines.
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Title: Woman at a voting machine
Date: December 1961
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 3 x 3 in.
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Original Caption: Eleanor Roosevelt votes in Hyde Park, New York, 11/03/1936
From:: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, compiled 1882 - 1962
Created By:: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Production Date: 11/03/1936
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Item 171437, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives.
Found in folder "Politics/Elections," Ephemera Collection (Record Series 9900-01), Seattle Municipal Archives
Just voted after getting out of work this morning, and there were NO lines! Nice.
Note: I didn't vote for Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, because he's not a Libertarian.. He's a damn Republican. :(
I miss having a candidate like Michael Badnarik or Harry Browne to vote for..
Rode by this and saw this warehouse full of voting machines. Would have gotten a better shot, but there were some workers nearby already eyeing me funny. On Lorraine Street. I guess they have to store them somewhere.
Voting in Lowndes County, Georgia
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 November 2012.
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Our first daughter and our second vw. We were well aware that money did not grow on trees. We knew that if we wanted a larger car, we would have to work more and do our best to make one wish become a reality. Although we were well aware that materialism had its evils, we had enough common sense to understand that certain ideologies would not pay our bills. Neither my wife or i ever majored in constitutional law, or any kind of environmental law. We majored in education because we felt the children were the future, not the alteration of the constitution or the bill of rights. We have not regretted our decisions, but we have become intensely interested in the shift of values that seems to have replaced traditional values in the past decade.
A long line of optical scan voting machines wait to be tested and certified for the attorney general recount, which begins Monday, Dec. 16.
Voters insert their printed ballots into an automated ballot box that scans and tallies the votes and deposits the printed ballots into a locked container.
Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller
Item 171436, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives.
I wonder how other electronic voting ballots around the country look. This is an especially interesting choice of languages, I think. Although if you don't read English you're lost at the get go. 10/27
Voting in Lowndes County, Georgia
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 November 2012.
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Are you like me and fed up with both the Republican and Democratic parties? Then I encourage you to vote for a third party candidate. The likelihood of a third party candidate being elected is slim to none, but if enough folks vote this way, the two big parties might get their heads out of their asses.
I've been told that if any third party candidate can get 5% of the national vote, his or her party will get matching federal funds in the next presidential election. I'm trying to track down a link to supporting information. If it is true, then that's reason enough for me to vote third party. Let's get some of these establishment a-holes out of Washington and get this country running on the right track...
(If any of you out there know more about how federal campaign funding works and if the 5% bit is accurate or not, please leave a comment and/or a link below. Thanks!)
Update: OK, that was quick. I actually found the pertinent info. (see second paragraph). Ain't Google grand?
Observers from both parties watch as (seated left to right) Fairfax County Electoral Board Secretary Brian Schoeneman and Chairman Seth Stark review the test ballots to be used in the testing of the voting machines.
Voting in Lowndes County, Georgia
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 November 2012.
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Voting in Lowndes County, Georgia
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 November 2012.
lake.typepad.com/on-the-lake-front/2012/11/voting-in-lown...
Voting in Lowndes County, Georgia
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 November 2012.
lake.typepad.com/on-the-lake-front/2012/11/voting-in-lown...
Now why on earth would I have a problem with Diebold voting machines?
Oh, right...
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An election official marks a test ballot to be used in the testing and certification of the voting machines, in accordance with the order of the Recount Court in Richmond.
Some voters in Las Vegas get to go to the Supermarket and buy their daily staples, gamble, vote and perhaps find a warm body that charges by the hour.
I have to extend thanks to net_efkt for providing an excellent texture for this image. It was just the right kind of Scrunched Paper Texture for my needs.