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My Experience With the Country’s First Automated Elections

May 15, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010. Our family woke up early like we always do every election day. We like to be at our precinct early so that we’d be able to vote quickly and not spend the whole day waiting in line. We arrived at our precinct before 7:00 AM and were surprised to see that a lot of people were already waiting in line to vote. In our area, it turned out that six voting precincts were squeezed into one cluster, totaling to about at least 600 voters per classroom (and per machine), where in the past it was only about a hundred persons per classroom. I heard that we only had four machines in our area, hence the consolidation.

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