Tuesday
Nov042008
My Name Is Baratunde, And I Just Voted For Barack Obama
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 11:03 | baratunde | tagged 2008 Elections, 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Election Day, NYC, Video in General 
Reader Comments (10)
Thank you for sharing...Brought tears to my eyes! Beautifully simple documentation of a very private moment on a very historical day
Thank you for sharing...Brought tears to my eyes! Beautifully simple documentation of a very private moment on a very historical day
Oh my goodness - I early voted a couple of Saturday's ago, and there was an old Black poll worker there, about 75; and he was telling me about how back in his day they had these machines with a big lever that you had to pull to punch the punch card.
Ha ha ha ha ha, why y'all got 40/50 year old machines up in New York?
Oh my goodness - I early voted a couple of Saturday's ago, and there was an old Black poll worker there, about 75; and he was telling me about how back in his day they had these machines with a big lever that you had to pull to punch the punch card.
Ha ha ha ha ha, why y'all got 40/50 year old machines up in New York?
Wow, they still have the levers up there! My first ever election in Boston in November 2000 they still had the booths, but I think soon after the 2002 gubernatorial race they switched to paper scanned ballots.
In LA they have something similar. You insert the paper ballot into this book mounted on a stand and the binding between each set of two pages has holes in it. You mark the holes with a special marker to vote and when you're done you put the ballot into the machine. I can understand why.
There are usually dozens of things to vote for in each election. I had to do my homework yesterday and I finally figured out how I'm voting for all the little local elections and propositions and measures. I wrote it all on a piece of paper and will try to get out of work a little early to head to the polls just down the street from my apartment.
Thank you for the video, that's pretty damn cool.
Wow, they still have the levers up there! My first ever election in Boston in November 2000 they still had the booths, but I think soon after the 2002 gubernatorial race they switched to paper scanned ballots.
In LA they have something similar. You insert the paper ballot into this book mounted on a stand and the binding between each set of two pages has holes in it. You mark the holes with a special marker to vote and when you're done you put the ballot into the machine. I can understand why.
There are usually dozens of things to vote for in each election. I had to do my homework yesterday and I finally figured out how I'm voting for all the little local elections and propositions and measures. I wrote it all on a piece of paper and will try to get out of work a little early to head to the polls just down the street from my apartment.
Thank you for the video, that's pretty damn cool.
NY's mechanical voting machines are among the most reliable and difficult to
hack in the nation actually. Plus you feel like you actually did something!
NY's mechanical voting machines are among the most reliable and difficult to
hack in the nation actually. Plus you feel like you actually did something!
baratunde: WOW! This is GREAT!! RIGHT IN THE BOOTH!!! :>)
THANK YOU for this experience! Whooo! Hoo! :>)
baratunde: WOW! This is GREAT!! RIGHT IN THE BOOTH!!! :>)
THANK YOU for this experience! Whooo! Hoo! :>)