Voting

My wife and I make it a point to take our children with us whenever we vote. We want to show them how important it is to take a few minutes and vote.

I live in Orange County, CA. Hard-core Republican county in a Democrat tax&spend&entitlements-up-the-wazoo state.

Because it is rich people worried about being disenfranchised, our voting machines are fool-proof, robust, and print a human readable receipt that you can verify through glass. Absolutely no tough screen technology - everything is done with controls befitting industrial automation instrumentation.

> A would-be voter getting turned away would be like a company picnic where your kid goes home crying because he doesn't get his face painted.

I endorse face-painting for voters. Purple finger, my ass! _Purple_ _face_!

So are you going to offer up some pseudoscientific justification for voting or why people "should" vote, or just take it as a given? Do you support voting in all small community elections where your vote has, conceivably, some small sliver of efficacy or only the large ones in which your vote has a p(decisiveness)=0?

Wow, the commenters have a severe irony detection deficit today.

So do they take your ballot out of the privacy envelope and look at it before putting it in the scanner? That's what they do here in DC.

It makes me wonder if there's a "Test" button they can press while feeding in your ballot if you connected the wrong arrow....