Re: Apple on the Internet

["Donald L. Johnson" <70524.1023@Compuserve.com>]

>  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
 
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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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