I know! I know it's been a while. Today, I just need a place to vent. Here is my experience at the California primary election. My hubby, a registered democrat, went straight through, got his cards and voted. Myself, I'm registered as independent. I get halted at the card station and am told to chose one of five selections. I was unaware this would happen. I ask what the difference of each voting choice was and was told I had to choose one and they couldn't influence me by describing anything. Color me stunned. . .I may as well roll a five-sided-die and see what I get (that was for my gamer kids). After my refusal to select randomly, one of the ladies turns the five different cards around for me to "accidentally" look at them. I point to the one that has my candidate on it (and YES, it was Bernie) and say I choose that one. I am told I must state verbally this choice that I want. I guess pointing was too general? I have no clue what to call this choice I needed to make . . . damn those Math and Engineering degrees. I should have taken English or some other form of Communications. So, the nice lady points to a location that lists all the possible voters for each card. I then look at the card I want, find the magic set of words that matches the set of words in that list of five choices I was expected to choose from. Then the lady tells me I must state exactly what I want. The words had so little meaning to me, I can't even remember today what they were, but I finally got my card and was able to step up the to voting station. Meanwhile, the hubby had finished. Who knew being independent would be such a struggle? I've never had an experience like this in all the years I have voted. So tell me, what if I hadn't had someone willing to go the distance to help me out? What if I had accepted my crap shoot of a card based of the roll of the die? What if I wasn't strong willed enough to demand that card I wanted? What if I spoke limited English? Now, tell me, do you think some votes were lost for my candidate of choice? I don't doubt it one tiny bit!
Thursday, June 9, 2016
My Vote Counted! Did Yours?
Dear Diary,
I know! I know it's been a while. Today, I just need a place to vent. Here is my experience at the California primary election. My hubby, a registered democrat, went straight through, got his cards and voted. Myself, I'm registered as independent. I get halted at the card station and am told to chose one of five selections. I was unaware this would happen. I ask what the difference of each voting choice was and was told I had to choose one and they couldn't influence me by describing anything. Color me stunned. . .I may as well roll a five-sided-die and see what I get (that was for my gamer kids). After my refusal to select randomly, one of the ladies turns the five different cards around for me to "accidentally" look at them. I point to the one that has my candidate on it (and YES, it was Bernie) and say I choose that one. I am told I must state verbally this choice that I want. I guess pointing was too general? I have no clue what to call this choice I needed to make . . . damn those Math and Engineering degrees. I should have taken English or some other form of Communications. So, the nice lady points to a location that lists all the possible voters for each card. I then look at the card I want, find the magic set of words that matches the set of words in that list of five choices I was expected to choose from. Then the lady tells me I must state exactly what I want. The words had so little meaning to me, I can't even remember today what they were, but I finally got my card and was able to step up the to voting station. Meanwhile, the hubby had finished. Who knew being independent would be such a struggle? I've never had an experience like this in all the years I have voted. So tell me, what if I hadn't had someone willing to go the distance to help me out? What if I had accepted my crap shoot of a card based of the roll of the die? What if I wasn't strong willed enough to demand that card I wanted? What if I spoke limited English? Now, tell me, do you think some votes were lost for my candidate of choice? I don't doubt it one tiny bit!
I know! I know it's been a while. Today, I just need a place to vent. Here is my experience at the California primary election. My hubby, a registered democrat, went straight through, got his cards and voted. Myself, I'm registered as independent. I get halted at the card station and am told to chose one of five selections. I was unaware this would happen. I ask what the difference of each voting choice was and was told I had to choose one and they couldn't influence me by describing anything. Color me stunned. . .I may as well roll a five-sided-die and see what I get (that was for my gamer kids). After my refusal to select randomly, one of the ladies turns the five different cards around for me to "accidentally" look at them. I point to the one that has my candidate on it (and YES, it was Bernie) and say I choose that one. I am told I must state verbally this choice that I want. I guess pointing was too general? I have no clue what to call this choice I needed to make . . . damn those Math and Engineering degrees. I should have taken English or some other form of Communications. So, the nice lady points to a location that lists all the possible voters for each card. I then look at the card I want, find the magic set of words that matches the set of words in that list of five choices I was expected to choose from. Then the lady tells me I must state exactly what I want. The words had so little meaning to me, I can't even remember today what they were, but I finally got my card and was able to step up the to voting station. Meanwhile, the hubby had finished. Who knew being independent would be such a struggle? I've never had an experience like this in all the years I have voted. So tell me, what if I hadn't had someone willing to go the distance to help me out? What if I had accepted my crap shoot of a card based of the roll of the die? What if I wasn't strong willed enough to demand that card I wanted? What if I spoke limited English? Now, tell me, do you think some votes were lost for my candidate of choice? I don't doubt it one tiny bit!
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