I'm happy to say that I voted for the November 7th General Elections. Miami-Dade Elections Department made it easy for me to do so.
I voted on a paper form that will be read by an optical scanner. I ensured that there were no stray marks on my paper, and followed the instructions precisely. Checking the website showed that my ballot arrived by mail to the Elections Department on 26 October 2006. That does not guarantee that it got counted; however, since I voted a straigt Democrat ticket, it'd be kinda hard for my marks to find their way into the (R) column, the way it has supposedly happened in Jefferson county on their ES&S iVotronic machines - the same machines we use here in Miami-Dade county.
I'm looking forward to this election. I hope it works out for everyone who votes. What I'm not looking forward to is the aftermath. I have a feeling we're going to have quite a few races that are too-close-to-call, where post-election problems with machines are going to figure in.
Being a technologist, one would think that I have an affinity for the electronic voting system; however, I have my own questions about it, questions that I will save for later.
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