L.A. County Can Take This New Voting System and Stuff It (community college, price)

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Get it? Like stuffing ballot boxes...

But drollery aside, I'm enraged over this new system for which we severely overpaid. Firstly, there was nothing wrong with the Inka system, at least not on the end-user side. You make a little dot, and then put your ballot in the machine...done. This new system is more complex, and can confuse older people who are not tech oriented. My mother needed a poll worker to stand with her the entire time, as I was not allowed to stand with her as she voted because I was voting that day as well. If you have an older family member who isn't tech savvy, be sure to alert them that they'll need help with this new voting process.

Another issue I have is that, not only is a non-solid state device required initially to print out your blank ballot sheet, but each voting station has its own non-solid state device that prints on the blank ballot. Unbelievable! Somebody sure made a lot of money from us with this extremely cost-inefficient system, and will continue to do so every time a touch screen or a printing mechanism breaks down and needs to be replaced.

Good freakin' grief!!!

I'm so angry I want to get in the faces of every last politician who got behind this extremely cost-inefficient system and say bad words at them. How disgusting. And people wonder why our roads can't get repaired, and why we don't have the money for this or that, but we have the money to waste on this sort of thing?

[Texamichiforniasota]

Or you and your mother could just mail your ballot in like most people do.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Texamichiforniasota

Or you and your mother could just mail your ballot in like most people do.

Don't talk about my mother.

[V8 Vega]

I'm computer and phone savvy and not sure I could do it again without help. Unnecessarily complicated. My vote center was well inside a community college and hard to find and a long walk. It had many machines at a cost to LA county residents of 300 million and I was the only one voting.
The old inka dot system worked fine.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

That $300 million price tag is ludicrous. I'm a Computer Scientist and let me assure everybody that we got thoroughly hosed with this over-priced, remarkably inefficient system. Everybody should be furious over this, considering the incessant refrain about the public coffers needing more money for rudimentary services.

[Rkstar71]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

Get it? Like stuffing ballot boxes...

But drollery aside, I'm enraged over this new system for which we severely overpaid. Firstly, there was nothing wrong with the Inka system, at least not on the end-user side. You make a little dot, and then put your ballot in the machine...done. This new system is more complex, and can confuse older people who are not tech oriented. My mother needed a poll worker to stand with her the entire time, as I was not allowed to stand with her as she voted because I was voting that day as well. If you have an older family member who isn't tech savvy, be sure to alert them that they'll need help with this new voting process.

Another issue I have is that, not only is a non-solid state device required initially to print out your blank ballot sheet, but each voting station has its own non-solid state device that prints on the blank ballot. Unbelievable! Somebody sure made a lot of money from us with this extremely cost-inefficient system, and will continue to do so every time a touch screen or a printing mechanism breaks down and needs to be replaced.

Good freakin' grief!!!

I'm so angry I want to get in the faces of every last politician who got behind this extremely cost-inefficient system and say bad words at them. How disgusting. And people wonder why our roads can't get repaired, and why we don't have the money for this or that, but we have the money to waste on this sort of thing?

You have to have your head stuck where the sun don't shine to not see that this is with the specific purpose to confuse the voter on purpose in hopes that they'll vote democrat.

I wouldn't be surprised if the poll workers are there to purposely coach non tech savy and UNinformed people to vote democrat.

This whole thing stinks of dem corruption.

[Bunjee]

Originally Posted by Rkstar71

You have to have your head stuck where the sun don't shine to not see that this is with the specific purpose to confuse the voter on purpose in hopes that they'll vote democrat.

I wouldn't be surprised if the poll workers are there to purposely coach non tech savy and UNinformed people to vote democrat.

This whole thing stinks of dem corruption.

No. Don't you dare. I volunteer for every election, a total of about 20 hours with training, set-up and about a 16 hour election day. THERE IS NO CHEATING. If you're that concerned, volunteer yourself.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Bunjee

I volunteer for every election, a total of about 20 hours with training, set-up and about a 16 hour election day. THERE IS NO CHEATING. If you're that concerned, volunteer yourself.

Amen to that.

[Trekker99]

I'd be concerned over the voting wait times as people spend/waste more time trying to figure out the system.

What are the chances some folks will just say F-it if the wait times get too long?

[evening sun]

Originally Posted by Bunjee

No. Don't you dare. I volunteer for every election, a total of about 20 hours with training, set-up and about a 16 hour election day. THERE IS NO CHEATING. If you're that concerned, volunteer yourself.

Right on.