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Originally Posted by djmilf
And if a candidate refuses to participate in an early debate, then what? Said candidate gets removed from the ballot?
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There is no debate requirement. Nobody has to debate. Performance in a debate has no real application or value in relation to the job. Actually, I think the "town hall" format is better than debates. The candidate can take longer to fully answer and not try to rebut the other candidate's stupid responses.
We voters file voter certificates and use paper ballots marked with a pen. The ballot is printed when you present yourself to the judge and confirm your identity, address, and precinct. The certificate simply documents that you voted and is collected separately by a judge. The ballot is scanned by the voter, producing a number tally of votes cast. When I voted last week one of the scanners was wrinkling the paper ballots as they went through the slot, so we were instructed how to carefully insert the ballot properly. The actual problem seemed to be with the printer, not the scanner. That is the only technical glitch I have seen with the system.
As a teenage kid, I worked at the Board of Election Commissioners in a large city on election night. The votes were counted by hand with one guy reading the votes off the ballot and another guy recording the votes for all of the races on the ballot. It was tedious and prone to fatigue. It went long into the night. The room was full of these pairs of guys reading aloud and tabulating votes. Anyone who wants to go back to that hand counting method is nuts.
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