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To: daryll40 who wrote (39303)	11/9/2000 8:28:26 AM
From: Alan Gallaspy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

2. Those senior citizens can sure figure out the BINGO card easily. This was not brain surgery. A little attention to detail would have guaranteed proper selection. I actually went to a charity bingo event once with a friend. The pace of the game was said to be rather pokey compared to REAL old-folks bingo, but nonetheless, both me and my friend found we had overlooked marking out a few numbers on our multiple grid card. Neither one of us are particularly stupid or senile, its just that we were performing a task that was novel and presented in a format that we had little experience with, even though we had seen it before and had a complete theoretical knowledge of exactly what we had to do. Just to compare, the guy I was with routinely and with 100% accuracy uses electron impact mass spectral data to identify closely related organic compounds. The point I am trying to make is that a complicated task may seem trivial after lots of experience, but even a relatively easy task can be daunting if it is novel, there is a long line outside, people are bitching about how long the old farts are taking or other pressures real or imaginary. Sure, attention to detail will eliminate most errors, but a lot of errors can be prevented from ever happening with well designed forms and equipment.

To: daryll40 who wrote (39303)	11/9/2000 9:19:04 AM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 70976

See today's WSJ on new voting technology. Efforts to date have had their own problems. Punch cards have been used for many years in many states and have their own problems but if senior citizens cannot master the punch card they may totally panic if they have to face a computer screen.