Stickmaker (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stickmaker) wrote2006-05-16 12:49 pm
stickmaker) wrote2006-05-16 12:49 pm
Voted Today
Apparently, the republican administration here in Kentucky has decided to punish all democrats in as many petty, inconveniencing ways as possible.
At the polling place where I voted they had one of the machines they've been using for years set up for the republican primary. For the democrats, however, they used a new, "accessible" machine. Which was actually less accessible, at least for me. It was at a fixed and too-low height. To see the whole screen I had to duck under a hood, putting my lower back at an uncomfortable angle. The interface was a shuttle wheel arrangement; I had to spin that until the person I wanted to select was highlighted, then push a button. I'm still not sure I voted for the people I wanted to. The growing pain in my lower back made me reluctant to review my choices.
Access to the form was purely linear, requiring me to spin the wheel either way, back and forth, until I got what I wanted. It was also too sensitive. That is, a small movement could cause it to wildly overshoot.
If this pattern was the same at all voting places (republicans allowed to use the old, easy and familiar booth while democrats had to use the new, awkward one) there's definitely grounds for charges of discrimination, here.
At the polling place where I voted they had one of the machines they've been using for years set up for the republican primary. For the democrats, however, they used a new, "accessible" machine. Which was actually less accessible, at least for me. It was at a fixed and too-low height. To see the whole screen I had to duck under a hood, putting my lower back at an uncomfortable angle. The interface was a shuttle wheel arrangement; I had to spin that until the person I wanted to select was highlighted, then push a button. I'm still not sure I voted for the people I wanted to. The growing pain in my lower back made me reluctant to review my choices.
Access to the form was purely linear, requiring me to spin the wheel either way, back and forth, until I got what I wanted. It was also too sensitive. That is, a small movement could cause it to wildly overshoot.
If this pattern was the same at all voting places (republicans allowed to use the old, easy and familiar booth while democrats had to use the new, awkward one) there's definitely grounds for charges of discrimination, here.
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Ours had all new machines.