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[jfb]

Well, I voted. I voted touchscreen. Strangers on the street know this about me now. Every year I vote, and every year I get a sticker that says I VOTED, and every year I wear it, because hey, I'm proud to be in a country that mostly functions as a democracy. This year the stickers say I VOTED TOUCHSCREEN, and I'm not really proud of the touchscreen part, because I think the rush to new technology is ill-considered, and anyway, who cares what mechanism I used to vote? I don't remember I VOTED PUNCHCARD stickers. I hope Diebold paid for the stickers. But I wore it anyway. I guess I can take it off now.

(Update: Diebold didn't make the machines in Santa Clara County. I don't know who did.)

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The ones at my polling place didn't seem surly so much as confused by the presence of someone who wanted to vote. Guess it was kind of a slow day.