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Rock the Vote!
Nov. 2nd, 2004 08:12 amMy "I Voted Today" sticker doesn't stick to my shirt very well, so I stuck it on my monitor. But it's peeling off that too! Stupid, cheap sticker. >:(
I was a voting machine today! Punch here! Punch there! I was in and out lickety split! Well, not really lickety split. I had to wait in line! I've voted in damn near every election since I registered to vote six years ago. I have *never* had to wait in line. Last presidential election, there were maybe 5 people in front of me. In the primaries, someone came in as I left the voting booth but there was no one else there. Then there were all the times I've voted in a non-presidential election and I was the only one there. This morning there was a line halfway down the hallway. I'm really proud that so many people are turning out this year. I was shocked, though, to see older people asking for assistance in the voting booth because they didn't know how to cast their vote. That means that they have never voted before. We're talking people in their 50's and 60's. I guess voter apathy isn't just for young people anymore.
We did have the republican voter eligibility challenger at our polling place. He was a distinguished looking gentleman in a suit sitting in the corner with a clip board. He only spoke up once while I was there. The man in front of me hadn't ever voted before and hadn't registered to vote in this precinct even though he's lived in our apartment complex for four years. They gave him a provisional ballot. Not too bad. It didn't get down and dirty like I thought it might. But where was the democrat challenger?
I was a voting machine today! Punch here! Punch there! I was in and out lickety split! Well, not really lickety split. I had to wait in line! I've voted in damn near every election since I registered to vote six years ago. I have *never* had to wait in line. Last presidential election, there were maybe 5 people in front of me. In the primaries, someone came in as I left the voting booth but there was no one else there. Then there were all the times I've voted in a non-presidential election and I was the only one there. This morning there was a line halfway down the hallway. I'm really proud that so many people are turning out this year. I was shocked, though, to see older people asking for assistance in the voting booth because they didn't know how to cast their vote. That means that they have never voted before. We're talking people in their 50's and 60's. I guess voter apathy isn't just for young people anymore.
We did have the republican voter eligibility challenger at our polling place. He was a distinguished looking gentleman in a suit sitting in the corner with a clip board. He only spoke up once while I was there. The man in front of me hadn't ever voted before and hadn't registered to vote in this precinct even though he's lived in our apartment complex for four years. They gave him a provisional ballot. Not too bad. It didn't get down and dirty like I thought it might. But where was the democrat challenger?