Went to the Polling Place
Feb 5th, 2008 by Mark
… and thought I had the wrong day. There were 3 workers and 1 person ahead of me and he was having his registration straightened out. It seems it had lapsed, or something like that. So they were busy reviving it.
Any way the arrangement was different this time. We didn’t have the spacious arrangement we did at the last election. It was much tighter, although not bad considering there were 7 voting stations for the 2 of us to choose from. *loll*
So I get my paper ballot, which is in a folder … weird. Walk over to the station, and it’s cardboard. Wow that’s eco-friendly. Why not use something that is reusable? Oh hell no, we need disposable since we live in California and hate those bad ol’ oil companies. Sheesh. Now you may be wondering how can you use a paper ballot on a cardboard stand. It was tricky. I have no doubt that someone is going to destroy one, soon. Either they are going to stick the pen through it or they are going to lean on and ‘boom’; hospital bound.
Which brings up another point. How tall are the people who design these things? 3 Feet? I am 6′ 1″ and it was a bit low for me. Not terribly bad, but not fun either. Guess they have not designed the adjustable cardboard polling station.
Anyway, I voted. Romney for the Republican Nomination, and no on all the idiotic amendments. Then traverse the 4 feet 6 and 1/8 inches back to the polling folks, and hand them my ballot all neatly tucked into it’s manila folder. The lovely lady working there, tore off my receipt — no kidding, it had a receipt on top of it — and then gave me my sticker, and as I walked off said:”Wait, make sure I put it in.”
Get your mind out of the gutters people.
So she slides in while I am saying:”I trust you, not worried about it.” It was nice to see people following the rules for once. Refreshing change from the Clintons and McCains.
UPDATE: It looks like McCain will gain many of the delegates here, and that is bad. The good, is that Huckabee stuck it to McCain in several states.
Tags: vote, polling station, ballot, romni, mccain, hillary, obama