Ignorance is Bliss

 You must be very happy. 

I loved that reply to a comment. I got signed out of Yahoo. Relapsed, and replied to a lot of comments earlier. I truly want to use that posters words to reply to:

LauraJ

no reason to allow for mail in votes, just because you dont feel like going to a booth. Lots of others tried to educate her. I would add: Write that down, date it, and read it again when you are in the hospital, having a baby, recovering from bad car accident, gall bladder surgery. Or when it is your mother, father, sister, brother, grandparent. When you are 74, or 82, or 95. And it is do not, or don't.

Caren wrote Lotto drawing can tell us exactly where the tickets were sold within hours and there are hundreds of millions of those sold weekly. But we wait days or weeks for people to count votes with machines.

Do those machines tell the name of the person who bought the tickets? Their proof of age (will need to be 18+ to cash in, I believe,) their SS# (for tax purposes,) their address?  

People who buy lottery tickets are not casting votes for multiple candidates in various districts, states, nor voting yes or no on referendum issues. Would a small rural town have enough funds to buy a super computer and program to make all those calculations?  

Nice in theory, impractical to implement. Not to mention candidates that cry: foul! Machine manipulation. Shortage of poll workers to feed the ballots into machines. Failure of some districts to report the voting totals for their district. Some big cities have more ballots to feed in the machine.

Voters here put their own ballots in the machines. I doubt the calculating began until after polling place was closed. Small town with say, 500 or a thousand voters, will finish a lot faster than a city with 1/2 a million voters.

Stan has a lot to say:

There is no way the state should say otherwise. I have seen poll workers sitting around drinking coffee and doing nothing while the people vote. People pointed out, to his comment, there is not reason poll workers could not start feeding mail in ballots in the morning, stating some states have a law forbidding that.

I have never seen poll workers sitting around drinking coffee during a presidential election. Mid terms, I would look around wondering where all the voters were, so few compared to presidential election. What I have seen is long lines, waiting upon workers to check for their name on rooster, have them sign it, handing out stickers after they cast their ballot into the machine. I have never seen any with food and drink at the check in or check out tables. They do take lunch elsewhere, bathroom breaks. I wonder if Stan ever worked a 15 hour day for low pay, and did not have coffee or coke or bottled water.