Reply #88: I still don't understand the "coding"

[Senior citizen]

A while back I lived aboard a small sailboat at a mooring area where there were more than 50 boats. One year I went to vote and found that we had all been recorded as if we all lived aboard one boat together, instead of each boat being a private residence. I complained, they gave me some lame explanations, we went back and forth by snail mail and phone for a few weeks, and finally I took it to the County Board of Supervisors. After all, people who live in the same apartment building, but in separate apartments, aren't all registered as living at the same address. They tried to say it was for uniformity, since many of us listed our address in different ways (Roadstead or Mooring Area, for example). The BoS staff phoned the RoV and I got a long letter explaining that was what they did for Navy people aboard ships. But in that case they ARE on one big ship. 1st the Ass't RoV, and then the actual RoV spent many HOURS on the phone with me. I mean THEY called ME trying to explain it. I just didn't like going in to vote and finding that my address was on the rolls differently than I'd written it when I'd registered to vote, that all my neighbors had the same problem (how can you write it correctly,((On Edit: on an absentee ballot)) if they've changed it without notifying you? S((Also on edit: And if you get your address wrong on the absentee ballot, they can disqualify it))), and what they explained as their "coding" made it look as if we all lived in a single residence. They finally wore me down and I gave up, and I no longer live on a boat, but I still don't know what they were doing, and probably never will.