Re: Apple on the Internet

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.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.
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