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araignée hogna carolinancis[edit]

Bonjour J,ai photographier une Hogna carolinancis chez moi Je reste a Laval Québec Canada est ce normal15:46, 5 July 2020 (UTC)173.178.247.216 (talk)

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Please post your question in English, or ask at the French Wikipedia reference desk: [1]. RudolfRed (talk) 17:29, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

why? fiveby(zero) 20:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"The Carolina Wolf Spider is North America's largest wolf spider and it has made every part of the continent its home." en fr fiveby(zero) 20:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See Hogna carolinensis, there is no French language article on this here. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:49, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lever voting machines and its percentage calculation[edit]

These same systems were in use until recently, especially in New York, but while today's electronic machines automatically process the number of votes and the relative percentage, as regards mechanical lever voting systems, how could it be obtained from it the percentage of each candidate? They were mechanical rather than automatic systems, even if the counting took place automatically. My opinion is as follows: once the polls were closed, the election workers unlocked the machines, read the results, wrote them down by hand and, by making the totals of each vote, always processed the percentage of the candidate by hand. Could this be so, roughly? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.198 (talk) 16:39, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ciao, friend! From our Voting machine#Mechanical voting (last paragraph under Levers):

When the voter is finished, a lever is pulled which opens the curtain and increments the appropriate counters for each candidate and measure. At the close of the election, the results are hand copied by the precinct officer, although some machines could automatically print the totals.

I understand "results" here to be the candidate totals, not a percentage (which has little significance at individual machine level). So yes, I believe your description is correct. A better sourced answer would come from the manual for such a machine, but I've not located one. I was surprised that I couldn't even find a photo of the vote counter displays. The closest I've got is the vague recollection of a scene from the 1966 Mission: Impossible episode Wheels, showing an odometer-like display in the back of a voting machine which has been rigged by the local government. Sorry.

But I don't understand your concern. What purpose do you see in individual voting machines (whether modern electronic ones or older mechanical or electromechanical ones) reporting percentages? -- ToE 00:43, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And of course, anyone who knows the actual voting numbers, whether from a single machine or any other portion of the vote, could and can easily calculate the percentages for themselves should they desire to know them. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.56.20 (talk) 07:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Percentages can be calculated quickly and easily using either a slide rule or a modern calculator. 2602:252:D14:F900:5430:B6C7:1761:F900 (talk) 20:43, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]