RECMGMT-L Archives

Records Management

RECMGMT-L@LISTSERV.IGGURU.US
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: Archivists in the News - A touch of levity
From:
bobd <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:18:13 -0800
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (54 lines) 
I thought that only happened in Chicago.


Robert W Dalton, CRM
Dalton Consulting
253-229-4555
[log in to unmask]





-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Jones, Virginia
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:09 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [RM] Archivists in the News - A touch of levity

<People joke all the time about elections> Reminds me of one of my favorite
stories from New Mexico government.  During a major election in the 1970's,
the state used a computerized tally system for the first time.  The
Secretary of State invited the media reps to witness the votes being tallied
as they were called in from the precincts.  As the night wore on, only a few
of the rural precincts were left and the Secretary, wanting to move things
along, decided to call the precinct heads and get vote counts.  She called
one notoriously crooked precinct in a very rural county but had a bad
connection. To keep the media "impressed" by the modernization of the state,
she had the phone on speaker, but due to the bad connection both parties had
difficulty hearing each other.  The conversation went something like this:
	SoS - Joe, can you give me the count for your precinct?
	Joe - what's that Ernestine?  I can't hear you very well.
	SoS (a little louder) - the vote, Joe, what's the vote?
	Joe - Oh!  How many votes do you need Ernestine?

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
[log in to unmask]

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from
this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE
RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]

ATOM RSS1 RSS2