Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:38:57 11/11/00
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On November 11, 2000 at 08:51:35, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On November 11, 2000 at 06:18:40, Graham Laight wrote: > >>I don't think you appreciate how bad the situation looks from overseas. Zimbabwe >>is offering to send election monitors: Cuba is calling the USA a banana >>republic: you can read it all at >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1016000/1016830.stm >> >>Votes can arrive up to 10 days after polling has closed. Voting forms are >>unclear. Votes have gone missing. >> >>Worst of all, there's no doubt in my mind that the arguments over the result of >>this election will never, never, never go away. >> >>-g > >good that i am not the only person having these ideas concerning the elections. >its sad. when we vote, the locations shut the doors at 6h p.m. and >the same evening peole know who was voted. the next day you can read the >official numbers in the newspapers. of course USA is a big country. this makes >it difficult. but - it is a rich nation, they are completely computerized. >if they should not get it done, who else should cope with it ? > >no - the problem must be in the laws. it seems the laws are oldfashioned. >they maybe worked in older days where NEWS had to run arround the world >on horses. but not anymore in our days. Well, if Cuba wants to complain about our elections, perhaps they could have their own. These 4-year elections are a big deal, but there are many other issues on ballots, and many issues pertain to individual states or districts or counties or precincts only. So very small units of government have their own polling system to handle these thousands of elections that took place last Tuesday. My own ballot allowed me to vote for 20 or 30 people, as well as a half-dozen state and city initiatives. Some places have less money than others, and all throughout is found various forms of resistance to change or to outside influence, so in some places things go smoothly, and in other places things are messed up. Where I live, the urban areas are quite computerized, but in rural areas of my state things are less computerized, and so it takes longer to count votes. I don't know why it is so hard for them to count the votes, but that is the way it is. The leadership of a country with over a quarter-billion people is going to be decided by less than a thousand votes, I bet, so it seems that it is important to get it right. bruce
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