Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦 on Nostr: Also? Made it to my local advance poll yesterday afternoon. It was pretty busy - the ...

Also? Made it to my local advance poll yesterday afternoon. It was pretty busy - the line went just out the door - but the patient poll workers had people in and out in under half an hour. The process has more steps than a line dance. A poll worker must prepare each of your 10 individual colour coded ballots while you watch, carefully folding and initialing each one. Then you have to go to a booth, unfold ten tiny ballots, and mark each one, and then fold it up again. Then you have to slip each coloured ballot into the right colour coded ballot box - a bit tricky since the peach ballot and the pink ballot look a lot alike, as do the white ballot and the greyish ballot.

And when it’s all done? Each ballot must be counted by hand - because while governments and corporations are using AI for everything, the AB govt suddenly doesn’t trust computers to count binary yes/no ballots - something computers do exceptionally well!