Comments on: Fifth & Jefferson

By: Spencer Thomas

Spencer Thomas — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:42:52 +0000

I was the first voter at the Coliseum (4:3) at 9:30 AM.

My son worked at Mary St (4:2). They had 8 voters all day. His comment “We exceeded all expectations!” He also made a remark about using boredom as a path to spiritual enlightment.

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:35:47 +0000

My automark notes from last year. In short, tear off the tab. The machines are supposed to be programmed to ignore the tab, but they have been wrong the last few times I voted. It's a matter of programming the machines to know how long the ballot is. Note that the "sample ballot" they test the machine with doesn't have the tab on it. Problem detailed in the AutoMARK troubleshooting guide.

By: Matt Hampel

Matt Hampel — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:57:15 +0000

There’s something you need to do re. the tab on the ballot for it to work on the Automark. If I remember, it means directly disobeying the instructions on the tab.

By: George Hammond

George Hammond — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:00:45 +0000

Doh! thanks Mary. Fellow Chronicle readers, here's the story Mary wrote about the election last month.

By: johnboy

johnboy — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:33:21 +0000

12:30 Second Baptist Church … NO VOTERS!… other than 2 poll workers an 17 absentee ballots. Gonna be a loooong day

By: Mary Morgan

Mary Morgan — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:26:41 +0000

Adam J. Hollier is still on the ballot as running against Ravi Nigam, but Hollier dropped out of the race several weeks ago.

By: George Hammond

George Hammond — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:22:28 +0000

Yipe! I forgot all about this election. It's a school board election. There are two four-year seats, each with one candidate (so each running unopposed), but there is also a two-year seat that there are two candidates for. More information here.