INC NEWS - May 2 elections
pat carstensen
pats1717 at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 29 07:33:41 EDT 2006
Following up Mike's reminder to get out to vote on May 2
The precinct map is here:
http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/gis/precincts.cfm
You have to vote at your assigned polling place
To find out if you are registered and where you vote (including pictures of
the place and directions):
http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/votersearch/seimsvot.htm
(filling in the county on the search thing makes it work a LOT faster!)
Also, we have new voting machines. We still are doing optical scans of
paper ballots, but
* Each voting place has a touch-screen machine that will mark ballots for
you
* The scanner will let you know if you voted for 2 people where you could
only vote for 1
* You fill in a circle left of the name instead of completing an arrow
The only drawback I see with new machines is that they don't separate out
ballots that the machine can't detect any votes on, as the old machines did.
The folks at the Board of Elections have done a lot of testing to find out
what the new machines don't pick up, and the machines do pick up checks or
x's in the circle. Also, the tally at the end gives how many ballots it
couldn't read results for, so if the vote is close and the machines report
they missed a lot of votes, we can do a hand recount. But voters should
take care to follow the instructions on how to vote -- don't circle the
candidate's name, use blue or black pen, etc.
Finally, the NC judicial races are nominally non-partisan, but the parties
do have their favorites:
http://www.ncgop.org/home/index.asp
http://www.ncdp.org/judicial2006
The Republican site says "this election will determine who controls the NC
Supreme Court"
Hope this helps,
Pat
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