Tell me what you think...
Every year news oreganizations, and we're no different than the others, like to compile a list of Top Ten Stories. Since the Associated Press compiles the state and national stories, we here at the Bulletin tend to focus on "local" stories from eastern Connecticut.
Reporters are usually the ones who start the process by suggesting stories they've covered throughout the year, and then editors sift through those suggestions and select what we think were the 10 best stories.
But I'd be interested in hearing what you think were the Top 10 eastern Connecticut stories this year. Let's assume that we can all agree that the 2nd Congressional District race falls into that category - but what else?
Reporters are usually the ones who start the process by suggesting stories they've covered throughout the year, and then editors sift through those suggestions and select what we think were the 10 best stories.
But I'd be interested in hearing what you think were the Top 10 eastern Connecticut stories this year. Let's assume that we can all agree that the 2nd Congressional District race falls into that category - but what else?
posted by Ray Hackett at 12:17 PM
3 Comments:
Leaving behind the voting machines for optical scan voting? .
Well that is wishful thinking but I entirely sympathize.
Those things are junk and always have been junk and always will be junk. Recall the last close 2nd Congressional.
Am I repeating myself?
We used those crappy machines then too and they failed miserably.
Everyone in the nation should be converting to our way of voting. Not the reverse.
Our current machines did their job in 2000 and yet because of similar optical junk machines that screwed up in 1994 here and in Florida six years ago we are now all going to convert to the very same machines that screwed both elections.
Boy that’s brilliant; huh?
I was planning on from now on voting absentee to make sure my vote counted but now we read these incompetent poll-workers aren't even opening them.
Christ! Do I have to run for registrar in my town just to make sure my vote is counted?
subsailor...thanks for the input. But a question...why do you think the switch to optical voting machines warrants a spot on a Top Ten news list?
Mccommas...there is only one point I would disagree with you on in regards to your comment on the optical scanners. Having covered the 1994 election and the recount - the optical scanners were not the problem. Norwich was the only community testing those machines in 1994 - and the only problem that arose as a result stemmed from "voters" improperly filling out the ballot.
they were suppose to connect two ends of an arrow by drawing the middle line. Instead, too many folks either circled a name, put a check mark next to a name or crossed-out a name.
It was those 200-plus ballots that were the primary focus of the legal dispute that ensued following the recount - not the machines.
The other problems, as was the case this year, were all related to the absentee count.
What I found interesting in talking with people during the last recount was that no one I spoke with seemed upset over the number of small mistakes being discovered during the recount - not counting the rather big mistake in Lebanon. In fact, nearly everyone I talked with thought that the recount itself did more to restore confidence in the system than anything else.
Like I have said many times...voters deserve a lot more credit than what they normally get. They get it...and sometimes the parties don't.
But thanks again for the input. Your reason for including it has some merit...and I'll see that it gets included in the list as we go about compling the stories.
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