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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:35 PM
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8. We have a pretty foolproof ballot system up here - paper and pencil . .
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Census takers update the census shortly before the election, mostly door to door, some by phone.

We get sent a voting card at our mailing address and take it to our polling stations, mostly manned by locals - either volunteers or temporarily hired for the election.

We hand them our card, our name is checked on a master list - then marked as "in" and our registration card (half of it which is the ballot) is torn off -

We then walk behind a curtain, make our mark - fold it in half, then walk back to the registration desk where the ballot box is and we put it in the box in front of the workers who mark us off again as having voted.

That's it

No electronic gadgets - well,

there's heat and lights!

But y'all got hoodwinked down there that it would be cheaper to do it by machines . .

Think again

It just cost you the Worlds' respect

and your own freedoms.

Put a price tag on THAT!!

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