Dude! I was totally confused by the lever layout. I started to panic when I couldn’t find Obama’s name… (for non-New Yorkers, there were 20+ names spread out across the entire voting panel).
Seriously. Bill M. Perkins was RIGHT THERE, staring you in the face…and you voted for Obama?!?!
Heheh.
I was a little confused too. The top row listed the candidates’ names, and below each candidate was a list of that candidate’s delegates (including, at our polling place, Bill Perkins, who happens to be our state senator – you’ll notice that under his name it says “pledged to support Obama”). You really only needed to vote for the main candidate, in the top row. The other rows are only important if there are more people running to be that candidate’s delegate than the number of delegates that candidate is allotted.
Or, more succinctly, “the *number* of delegates is determined by the vote for the presidential candidate, but *who the delegates are* is determined by the delegate vote.”
So all I had to do was click Obama’s lever, right? I didn’t click anything else. (The Republicans were all there too on the right side, but I figured I’d invalidate my vote if I choose one of them).
Right. That’s what I did. And I think they lock the Republican levers when a Democrat votes, and vice versa. That’s why you had to give the guy that card with your party affiliation on it.
Dude! I was totally confused by the lever layout. I started to panic when I couldn’t find Obama’s name… (for non-New Yorkers, there were 20+ names spread out across the entire voting panel).
Seriously. Bill M. Perkins was RIGHT THERE, staring you in the face…and you voted for Obama?!?!
Heheh.
I was a little confused too. The top row listed the candidates’ names, and below each candidate was a list of that candidate’s delegates (including, at our polling place, Bill Perkins, who happens to be our state senator – you’ll notice that under his name it says “pledged to support Obama”). You really only needed to vote for the main candidate, in the top row. The other rows are only important if there are more people running to be that candidate’s delegate than the number of delegates that candidate is allotted.
Or, more succinctly, “the *number* of delegates is determined by the vote for the presidential candidate, but *who the delegates are* is determined by the delegate vote.”
So all I had to do was click Obama’s lever, right? I didn’t click anything else. (The Republicans were all there too on the right side, but I figured I’d invalidate my vote if I choose one of them).
Right. That’s what I did. And I think they lock the Republican levers when a Democrat votes, and vice versa. That’s why you had to give the guy that card with your party affiliation on it.
Yeah Tinman!