Re: R: Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

Mangiat wrote:
> Here on the other side of the pond votes are *always* counted manually (at
> least in Italy). Nevertheless, we have the results the day after...
Hmmm ... how many counters do you have?  Personally, I think we should
go electronic.  Electronic voting machines are more accurate, and have
less chance of accidental invalidation (i.e., people voting for two
different people), and count instantly.

Then Andrew Chaney wrote:
> This is slightly changing the subject, but what effect do you think the near
> universal news coverage and infamous "predictions" ("Bush is President!!!
> Wait, no he's not...") about election results might have on the election process?
> IMHO, there should be no news coverage of an election until *after* the polls have
> closed everywhere.  That is, until Hawaii (IMS, the westernmost state) has voted
> there shouldn't be any mention of who might have won this or that state.
Another possibility is to have a 24-hour voting period, so that ALL
places, worldwide, start voting and stop voting at the same time.  This
could work with the electronic method mentioned before.  So, US citizens
and soldiers outside of the country can cast their electronic ballots
during this 24-hour period, say, the traditional Voting Day for the
Eastern Time Zone, i.e., this year it would've been Midnight to midnight
(Eastern) of November 7.  Central time zone would vote from Nov. 6,
23:00 to Nov. 7 23:00, etc.

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