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- From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: I've always been a .... (BDI)
- Message-ID: <BxHAnK.HLI@vcd.hp.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 02:23:44 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard
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- M Holmes writes:
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- some folks who in the US yesterday faced an array of about 80 switches
- and levers enabling them to vote
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- Jenny Gutbezahl writes:
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- Hah! Yeah, that's the way they do it in the big cities. but out here
- in Northampton, we actually got pieces of paper with all the candidates'
- names written on them
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- Hahnh? It seems to be much different in west coast cities. For at least
- the last 20 years we've had cards that you slip into a slot that runs
- underneath the voting pamphlet. As you turn pages on the pamphlet, different
- sections of the card are uncovered. To vote, there's a little punch-type-
- thingie that pokes holes in the card.
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- Switches and levers? Nahhhh. If people had to deal with things like that,
- they'd just vote Democrat.
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- I can't believe we've got a Democrat for President again. Next thing you
- know they'll drag out Fischer and Spassky and have them play chess.
-
- -Dave
-