Re: Apple on the Internet

["Donald A. Newell Jr." <donewell@charter.net>]

Voting by clicking on a picture wouldn't solve much:
A picture of a movie star or a rock star would get the most votes.
Especially, if you could enter your 'write-in' vote via a photograph.
Or, better yet, a picture of Bart Simpson would win in a landslide  :-(


"Stephen Shaw" <xstephenx@apple2.org.za> wrote in message
news:a1mvbv$mra$1@venus.itns.co.za...
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:16:18 -0800, Donald L. Johnson wrote:
>
> >>  The voting machines they were using down there work pretty good...as
long
> as
> >
> >>the people read and follow the directions.
> >
> > That's it in a nutshell.  There was no Republican or Democrat conspiracy
to
> > rig the election or discriminate against certain ethnic voters.  The
> > problem was that most of the ballots disqaulified were spoiled by voters
> > who either couldn't read or couldn't follow the instructions!
> > Illiteracy strikes again!  If you want poorly educated people to be able
to
> > vote, you have to do one of three things:
> >
> > 1)  Educate/train the voters in the use of the voting machines.
> > 2)  Provide an assistant to operate the machine for them.
> > 3)  Make the instructions simple enough for them to understand and
follow.
> >
> > Of course, the real answer is to have an electorate sufficiently
> > well-educated that they can not only operate the voting machine, but can
> > make intelligent, informed choices as to who to vote for!  Which may be
too
> > much to ask in this day and age.
> >
> > So maybe they could convert some old Apple IIGS machines for voting.
Point
> > your mouse to the candidate's picture and click.  Any fool could vote
> > properly.
> >
> > Donald
> > Submariner, retired
>
> Hee, hee. Donald obviously never saw the old mail reader tagline "Invent
> something fool proof and watch a new improved fool appear"
>
> >
> > ----------
> > In article <nobody-578FC7.09065630122001@zeus.rdc-kc.rr.com>, Greg
Buchner
> > <nobody@mn.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In article <a0mg6r$lm$1@venus.itns.co.za>,
> >> Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The hell with this argument if your administration in Florida had
bought
> >>> decent voting machines i.e. Apple IIs instead of that Microsoft "half
chad"
> >>> stuff you would have got your Presidential outcome a helluva lot
quicker.
> >>> Are your State administrations so cheap and low budget? :)
> >>
> >>Actually it gets farther down that the state.  Often the local county or
> >>city is the one that decides what they have for voting equipment.  The
> >>voting machines they were using down there work pretty good...as long as
> >>the people read and follow the directions.  After all, punch cards
> >>worked for computer programming for a lot of years.
> >>
> >>Greg B.
> >>--
> >>Note:  To e-mail me, replace nobody with gbuchner
> >>I don't get junk e-mail and intend to keep it that way.
> >>If you want to send me spam, go jump off a cliff and make
> >>the world a nicer place.
>
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