Industrial Design and the Vote  

Here in Germany nearly...
Here in Germany nearly everybody would vote for Obama, but unfortunately it's not allowed for us to participate. 🙂

Diebold electronic voting machines
here in MD. The first time I voted on one, it malfunctioned (2000). But since then they've worked ok. I'd rather use the old noisy mechanical lever things, though. Those were cool.

Small town paper ballot.
Marked with a permanent felt-tip marker by connecting the arrows next to candidates names. Confusing layout, though. One needs to pay attention.
No photo ID required.

Old school voting machine
Looks something like this.
I hope it works properly.
http://www.occis.com/cis/civiceducation/Voting_Machines/voting_machines....

Paper Scantron "Accuvote" sheets
These are what we use in Chattanooga, TN

electronic
These... in Harris County - Texas

I've been
voting absentee for a few cycles now. We receive ballots sheets on card stock, to be marked as tktoo describes above. Don't know what they have at the polling places now, but I suspect it's the same cards, read by a machine that the voter feeds after filling out the ballot in a booth. At least it was that way for a long time, here in San Francisco.
Ohio should be an interesting case, with machines that may be suspect (still ?) and provisional ballots that don't get counted until 10 days after the election. At least the great majority of new vote-suppression laws have been suspended by state courts until after this election . . .

I voted this AM....small town...
I voted this AM....small town ohio...fill in the bubble with the ball point pen. Easy and quick!

Though we are not in a "battleground" state...
I still wish we had paper ballots so there was a verifiable trail and they could be hand counted if need be. I just don't have confidence in the electronic machines.
Ours was called a "Micro Vote".
Regardless of how you do it, I hope everyone gets out and casts their ballot.

pegboard, your skepticism...
pegboard, your skepticism towards electronic machines seems reasonable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QdpGd74DrBM

stranger than fiction...
stranger than fiction...
http://youtu.be/1aBaX9GPSaQ

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we got it good
in Oregon, we mail the sucker in.
How cool is that.

NYC no longer has the great...
NYC no longer has the great old lever machines. We now fill in small circles (like standardized tests) and feed them into a scanner. Kind of sad....