Rookies
11-02-2010, 06:44 PM
To prevent another hanging chads fiasco?
We had a recent experience with the new digi machines in Ontario last week with our municipal elections.
The polls closed at 8:00p.m. The Mayoral contest (which totalled about 800k votes), had about 300k counted at 8:02! :eek: The one TV station on the air was VERY conservative in not announcing the winner until about 8:08, when 500k had been counted. There are 44 Councillors and a smaller number of School Board Trustees also elected and the vast majority were all decided by that same time.
I remember long nights waiting for votes to come in until midnight and people arriving at various campaign HQ for candidates at 8:15. They would not have downed their first pint last week and it was all over!
Are you guys using the same scanners ?
We had a recent experience with the new digi machines in Ontario last week with our municipal elections.
The polls closed at 8:00p.m. The Mayoral contest (which totalled about 800k votes), had about 300k counted at 8:02! :eek: The one TV station on the air was VERY conservative in not announcing the winner until about 8:08, when 500k had been counted. There are 44 Councillors and a smaller number of School Board Trustees also elected and the vast majority were all decided by that same time.
I remember long nights waiting for votes to come in until midnight and people arriving at various campaign HQ for candidates at 8:15. They would not have downed their first pint last week and it was all over!
Are you guys using the same scanners ?