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Filling out a survey at a PA State website…

May 15th, 2006

This survey is designed to help the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania better serve PowerPort portal visitors.

please scrap this POS and start over with a decent web design team.  

this poll/survey is pathetic.  honestly, it checks all of the boxes by default?  what mental midget thought THAT would be a good idea?  

this site sucks.  i just looked it up in the dictionary.  yep, right there it is.

 
find your polling place is broken/a disaster/a joke.  The webform is 'why I hate the government' in one concise webpage.
 
The easy way :
Find your polling place : enter your zipcode.  INSTOPRESTO OMFG IT WORKS.

Your way :
FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE
Unable to locate polling place information.
To find the polling place for a specific residential location, provide the residential address below and click the Find Polling Place button.

House #:
(ex: 123 Main Street)     
Pre Direction:
(ex: 123 East Main Street)     
Street Name:
(ex: 123 Main Street)     
Street Suffix:
(ex: 123 Main Street)     
Post Direction:
(ex: 123 Main Street North)     
City:     
State:     PA
Zip Code:     
OMFG IT DOESN'T WORK!  AND THERE ARE NO USEFUL ERROR MESSAGES AS TO WHY IT MIGHT NOT WORK.  OMFG!

 

What set off this bomb in my brain?  

http://www.votingbooth.state.pa.us/ and 

http://www.dos.state.pa.us/voting/cwp/view.asp?a=1206&Q=443544&votingNav=| 

Are they serious?  I consider myself a pretty decent internet user.  I have quick eyes and I can cope with bad design…I couldn't get their webform to work, I couldn't find it again after I left (either through their nav menus nor their site search).  I found a link that looked promising that took me offsite to that joke of a site, which was apparently completely schizophrenic: the link said 'Voting in your County', the website title said 'Ready.Set.Vote', the content title said 'Welcome to the Pennsylvania Cultural Elections' and the body said the purpose was to introduce voters to 'some of the new technology being used in our state'.  I bet Grandma loves using PA Power Port…  

IF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY IS ANYTHING LIKE THE FUCKING CLUSTERASSBRAINRAPESHITFUCK OF A WEBSITE THESE SHITHEADS ARE FOISTING OFF AS A GOOD ATTEMPT WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS, I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE DIEBOLD CROWN OUR NEXT RULER.

EDIT : It is no wonder that terrorists and hackers exist.  That website is such a worthless piece of shit (that I am SURE millions of dollars of state taxes were spent on) it probably inspires new generations to become hackers ('terrorists').  If I were a terrorist, I would take down up the PA PowerPort site first.  Then the sewage systems.  But PA PowerPort would be at the top of the list.  I had a lot of non-fun going to www.state.pa.us and trying to find out where to vote (as an exercise in (f)utility), and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good time.  15 seconds is how long it should take, right???

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