CHADS GO WAY OF DINOSAUR.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Saying farewell to chads, Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack said that Tuesday's election was the last one held in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County using the punch card A storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that holds data as patterns of punched holes. Each of the 80 or 96 columns holds one character. The holes are punched by a keypunch machine or card punch peripheral and are fed into the computer by a card reader. voting system Noun 1. voting system - a legal system for making democratic choices electoral system legal system - a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws that became notorious in Florida during the last presidential election. McCormack's office gave a final farewell during a Punch Card Retirement Party on Tuesday night - after polls closed in Hacienda Heights Ha·ci·en·da Heights An unincorporated community of southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 56,100. , Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. and other local elections - to reminisce rem·i·nisce intr.v. rem·i·nisced, rem·i·nisc·ing, rem·i·nisc·es To recollect and tell of past experiences or events. [Back-formation from reminiscence. about the infamous voting system the county used for 35 years. ``We thought today, being election day, was a good time to let the public know that we are not only retiring chad after 35 years of faithful service, but also having a mock election A mock election (or pretend election, fake election) is an election organised for educational or transformative purposes. Mock election for educational purposes Secondary schools organise mock elections to introduce young people to the concept of elections before they on the new interim voting system, the new optical scan system that will be in place,'' McCormack told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The supervisors voted to give McCormack $4 million to purchase the interim voting system, InkaVote, a paper-based optical scan system that was demonstrated Tuesday night during the chad retirement party where anyone could cast a test ballot. InkaVote was designed to use a vote recorder device that has the ``look and feel'' of the punch card vote recorder, to minimize the impact of the change on voters and poll workers. ``It is a look-alike of the current system,'' McCormack said. ``However, the difference is it will not have any chads. Voters will use a pen instead of a punch to make their voting choices.'' Los Angeles County is one of nine counties whose use of pre-scored punch card ballots was banned from further use by federal action last year. The deadline for retirement of the systems is January. Last August, the supervisors voted to apply for funds from the state Voting Modernization Board to purchase the touch-screen voting system using Proposition 41 funds. The state has promised the county $49 million out of Proposition 41 funds, leaving the county $51 million short for the total $100 million price tag for the new touch-screen voting system. McCormack said she hopes to get the computer touch-screen voting system ready for voters in 2005. Troy Anderson, (213) 974-8985 troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com |
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