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Cook County is wasting a lot of money on expensive pencils.
by pdkl95 10y ago
Cook County is wasting a lot of money on expensive pencils.
- tptacek 10y agoP. sure we don't want to cast ballots in pencil.
- spatulon 10y agoPolling stations in the UK always provide pencils, and this caused a panic during the EU referendum amongst some Leave supporters, who were worried about their votes being changed. Those people brought their own pens, but that kind of paranoia was widely mocked. cf. Black Mirror writer Charlie Brooker: https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/745921556476473345 https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/74592155647647334...
- tptacek 10y agoI can sort of see how one can rationally object to electronic voting machines, but not to pencil-marked ballots. But it's a bit of a stretch.
- heartbreak 10y agoCook County is spending a lot of money on accessible pencils.