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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was FIRST to vote! But what a mess.
I voted at the little library named after Tip O'Neill. It was supposed to start at noon. The room was 14' x 20' and it held a conference table, eight voting booths, a desk, seven chairs, a printer, scanners, ballot box, supplies, and five people who were just setting up and figuring out what to do.
As the line grew behind me, everybody was calm and jovial, but at 12:15 some people left. After much discussion, they handed me a ballot and I filled it in. But I couldn't put it in the box without an envelope that wasn't there. A police officer arrived with two boxes of 500 envelopes each. I got one and was told I had to stand there and fill out the info on it by hand, but there was no place to stand and the pens weren't working on the envelopes. Then I had to place a sticker across it to seal it. I finally put it in the box!
It was all worth it. I'm going to assume my ballot was properly handled and my straight D ticket will count. Yay!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Something to prove you voted might come in handy just to prove you should be counted.
Croney
(4,646 posts)I had to put it on the envelope to seal it. It had identifying info on it. I've never been offered a receipt when voting. I don't know how it could be used.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its also on the absentee ballots.
Years ago when the first electronic votes were used I was stunned that I didnt get a printout when I was finished voting. I was very uncomfortable with the knowledge that my vote seemed to go into the etheric void. Did it count? Did it get changed? Was it ever even seen?
I always made sure to vote absentee after that. I dont trust the integrity of the people running the computers.
elleng
(129,778 posts)Autumn
(44,686 posts)Wow
Croney
(4,646 posts)I think it opens at 9 tomorrow.
Autumn
(44,686 posts)blaze
(6,248 posts)still_one
(91,807 posts)tavernier
(12,299 posts)Make sure your vote counts!!
LisaM
(27,748 posts)I'd prefer to vote in person, but our state no longer has it.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)According to our local organizers
LisaM
(27,748 posts)But we had an election not too long ago with the worst percentage turnout since the depression.
At least they have the added postage again. I think that makes a huge difference.
...and talks like voter suppression to me under a veil of "normalcy".
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Croney
(4,646 posts)but it's Cambridge, Mass., so I doubt if there was a Republican in the room. Just first-day bumbling; they were probably experts by the next day.
LiberalFighter
(50,343 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)They may have tried to vote on their lunch hour and ran out of time. It is better that they can open early and get out the kinks before Election Day.
triron
(21,880 posts)Took 15 minutes mostly reading the ballot.