Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 10 Nov 2000.
A couple of electoral cartoons
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· 9 messages · 10 Nov 2000 - 16 Nov 2000
___________________________________________________
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| OFFICIAL FLORIDA PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT |
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| Follow the arrow and punch the appropriate dot |
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| BUSH -------------------------------------> O |
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| |
| NADER -----, ,---, ,-----------> O |
| | | | | |
| | | ,|--, | ,---, |
| GORE -----------, | | | | '-|-, '-----> O |
| '----------|------, | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| BUCHANAN--------|--|--' | '----|-' ,----> O |
| | '---------|--|----' |
| '-------' '--' |
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|___________________________________________________|
Adapted from: Mike Collins, Taterbrains.com
It appears that some people were confused by the above ballot and casted
invalid votes. Although there is some argument as to whether people too
stupid to punch a hole in the right place should be allowed to elect the
President, most states have now agreed to turn to CAV (computer assisted
vote) for future elections. The only remaining question is which
plateform to use.
The Democrats have proposed a Windows(tm) implementation, based on an
algorithm written by Al Gore himself. Here is a demo of it:
,-+-------------------------------------------+-+-+-,
|-| CAVe-in v.1.0 Vote collection |_|O|X|
+-+-------------------------------------------+-+-+-+
|-| File Edit Vote Windows Help |
+-+-------------------------------------------------+
| |
| Select the candidate of your choice: |
| |
| [ ] Al Gore |
| [x] George W. Bush |
| [ ] Ralph Nader |
| [ ] Pat Buchanan |
| [ ] None of the above |
| |
| |
| ,------, ,------, ,------, |
| | Vote | | Exit | | Help | |
| '------' '------' '------' |
| ^ |
'-----------|---------------------------------------'
'Click'
,-+---------------------------+-+-,
|-| Confirm mouse operation |?|X|
+-+---------------------------+-+-+
| |
| |
| Do you really want to vote for |
| "George W. Bush" ? |
| |
| |
| ,-----, ,-----, |
| | Yes | | No | |
| -^---' '-----' |
'--------|------------------------'
'Click'
,-+------------------------------------+-,
|-| User Alert |X|
+-+------------------------------------+-+
| |
| |
| Warning: Bush is an incompetent moron. |
| Do you really mean to vote for him ? |
| |
| |
| ,-----, ,------, ,--------, |
| | Yes | | No | | Cancel | |
| -^---' '------' '--------' |
'------|---------------------------------'
'Click'
,-+--------------------------------+-,
|-| System Alert |X|
+-+--------------------------------+-+
| |
| |
| Voting for Bush may critically |
| endanger the system! |
| Do you still want to vote for him? |
| |
| ,-----, ,====, |
| | YES | | NO | |
| -^---' '====' |
'---------|--------------------------'
'Click'
,-+-----------------------------------------+-,
|-| Message Box |X|
+-+-----------------------------------------+-+
| |
| |
| Your vote was placed in the absentee queue. |
| It should be tallied within 45 days. |
| In case of problems, contact your retailer. |
| |
| ,------, |
| | OK | |
| '------' |
'---------------------------------------------'
The Republican Party on the other hand, favors a MacIntosh
implementation. Here is a preview of the beta version, which was
designed by George W. with the assistance of the world-famous electoral
expert Sloppodone Mistosevice:
___________________________________________
|=[]=====================================[]=|
|===========================================|
| |
| |
| Clique on the candidate of you're choice |
| |
| (o) *** GEORGE W. BUSH *** (recomended) |
| ( ) Ralph Neither |
| ( ) Pat Bucanon |
| ( ) Undecided |
'Click' -->( ) algore |
| |
| |
| ,------, ,--------, |
| | Vote | | Cancel | |
| '------' '--------' |
| |
'-------------------------------------------'
_____________________________________
/ \
| ~ Fatal system error -1673 |
| (#) You should exit all programs |
| and restart your computer |
| |
| ,-----------, ,---------, |
| | Vote Bush | | Restart | |
| `-----------' `---------' |
\_____________________________________/
Th.N. 2000
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Legal Disclamer
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The above is a satyric cartoon intended for entertainement only. Its
contents do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Nor mines
for that matter: I'm a swiss citizen and have little interest in
american politics. Until now, that is. All of a sudden it became so much
more fun than in Switzerland! (Heck, I don't even know who the swiss
president is). May be I should consider naturalization?
Thierry Nouspikel
Rem...@stanford.edu
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{} George W Bush
{} Nader
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G o
Ascii inturpitartion of the ballot in question as seen
on The Daily Show
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| <> <> | GUI's are for slackers. | <> <> |
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--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Ville Jouppi said it like only they can.)-- >You need to be literate in order to use this system, but I think that is >required to be able to locate the correct box to punch your hole in too.. :-) > not so there have been cases where one of the major political parties comes into the geto and registers voters and has them sign there name then on election day they come back with a bus load every one in and hand out samples of how there ballot should look after they punch all the holes in return they get nice things like a INS (imagration) office in there local naighborhood and the cycle starts anew -- ._______. ._______. | <> <> | GUI's are for slackers. | <> <> | \-|o|-/ ibpconf.sh 5 on freshmeat.net \-|o|-/ /___\ the easiest way to personalize /___\ (MMM) the command line. By Faux_Pseudo (MMM)
Thierry Nouspikel wrote in message <3A0...@stanford.edu>... <snipped ascii after recovering from ROFL> >I'm a swiss citizen and have little interest in >american politics. Until now, that is. All of a sudden it became so much >more fun than in Switzerland! (Heck, I don't even know who the swiss >president is). May be I should consider naturalization? You'd fit right in to the USA. No one here knows who our president is.. <g> David
Another one, adapted from http://totl.net/
Punch the appropriate hole to vote
for the candidate of your choice:
+---------------+-+---------------+
| |O| |
| G. W. Bush ->|-|---------------+
| |O| |
|---------------|-|<- A. Gore |
| |O| |
| P. Buchanan ->|-|---------------+
| |O| |
|---------------|-|<- R. Nader |
| |O| |
+---------------+-+---------------+
Mzzl,
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:51:08 -0700, Thierry Nouspikel <REM...@stanford.edu> wrote: >It appears that some people were confused by the above ballot and casted >invalid votes. Although there is some argument as to whether people too >stupid to punch a hole in the right place should be allowed to elect the >President, most states have now agreed to turn to CAV (computer assisted >vote) for future elections. The only remaining question is which >plateform to use. Why can't you guys keep things simple? Here in Finland our vote sheets are like so: ___________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | Name of | _____ | | ballot | / \ | | | | | | <- supposed to be a circle | | \_____/ | but I couldn't be bothered | year | | to diddle it to be round.. :-) | | | | | | | | | |_________________|_________________| In the circle you simply write (in handwriting that's readable) the number of the person you want to vote. There's a list of all the participants and their vote numbers on the wall of the voting booth in case you forget. If there's anything else but a number on the vote sheet, the sheet is automatically rejected, and this is made very clear to the voters. Still, a number of rebellious people vote for Donald Duck or some other cartoon character.. Also various obscenities are quite popular. :-) When I don't have anyone to vote for, I just stay at home. You need to be literate in order to use this system, but I think that is required to be able to locate the correct box to punch your hole in too.. :-) Oh, I think there's also a guide on how to make clear numbers somewhere in the voting booth or behind the vote sheet.. I can't remember, it's a few years since I last voted for anyone in politics. (I've voted for several productions at Demo parties, though ;-)
Ville Jouppi wrote: <snip> > Why can't you guys keep things simple? Here in Finland our vote sheets are > like so: <snip> > If there's anything else but a number on the vote sheet, the sheet is > automatically rejected, and this is made very clear to the voters. Still, a > number of rebellious people vote for Donald Duck or some other cartoon > character.. Also various obscenities are quite popular. :-) When I don't have > anyone to vote for, I just stay at home. You should move to Sweden then. Here it is quite OK to vote for anybody you like, e.g. Donald Duck (and The Donald Duck Party always gets a few votes!). -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
> > Why can't you guys keep things simple? Here in Finland our vote sheets are > > like so: > <snip> > > If there's anything else but a number on the vote sheet, the sheet is > > automatically rejected, and this is made very clear to the voters. Still, a > > number of rebellious people vote for Donald Duck or some other cartoon > > character.. Also various obscenities are quite popular. :-) When I don't have > > anyone to vote for, I just stay at home. > > You should move to Sweden then. Here it is quite OK to vote for anybody > you like, e.g. Donald Duck (and The Donald Duck Party always gets a few > votes!). In denmark you can only vote on people who actually want to be elected. I think thats only fair. "But I don't wanna go ! *cry* "You have to ! The people have demanded it !"
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:41:37 +0100, Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> automatically rejected, and this is made very clear to the voters. Still, a >> number of rebellious people vote for Donald Duck or some other cartoon >> character.. Also various obscenities are quite popular. :-) When I don't have >> anyone to vote for, I just stay at home. > >You should move to Sweden then. Here it is quite OK to vote for anybody >you like, e.g. Donald Duck (and The Donald Duck Party always gets a few >votes!). It's quite ok to vote for him here too, you won't get sued or anything.. :-) Sometimes the votecounters count those too and then you can read the results in the magazines.. I think Donald Duck has always been the most popular black horse candidate. ;-)
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