I voted!
Voting was a bit of an ordeal for me this year.
Last night I double checked online to double-check to which polling place I was assigned. Central Library. Good.
Tonight I headed to the library to cast my vote. I found a large, slow moving line in front of me. Sadly, I had not budgeted much time before choir (although I was willing to miss choir in order to vote). Someone passed through the line saying that this line was only for people who need to register. Last time I voted, I lived two blocks from where I do now. It was at a different building, but I didn't know if that was because I changed districts in my two-block move or if they had simply changed buildings. So I was really unsure whether I needed to re-register or not. So I followed the people who were already registered past the huge line and found someone to ask.
I gave the woman my address, she looked in her book and said I was in a different ward and should be voting at a different building. However, I tended to trust the website more than this book she was looking at. I looked at the big book. I have an odd address (living on the south side of the street). The row she was pointing at only listed even addresses. She said that my odd address just fell in there somehow. I was not convinced. She took me to the map. I pointed out that I lived on the street that is border between wards and that since I was on the south side of the street, I should be in the southern ward, which votes at the library. She goes to check with another guy. He looks at the book. He looks at the map. He looks at the book again. I repeat my address about 43 TIMES!!!
Finally, the guy agrees with me, that I am in the right place, that the web is right, and the book is either just confusing or wrong. So, after all this, I was not about to go to the end of the now 2-hour line. So I said, "So...do I get a card now?" OK, so I probably unjustly skipped a LOT of people in line. Sorry bout that.
So anyway, I voted. I'm not particularly happy with some of the candidate outcomes (governor, in particular), but I am proud of Wisconsin's ballot measure decisions.
Last night I double checked online to double-check to which polling place I was assigned. Central Library. Good.
Tonight I headed to the library to cast my vote. I found a large, slow moving line in front of me. Sadly, I had not budgeted much time before choir (although I was willing to miss choir in order to vote). Someone passed through the line saying that this line was only for people who need to register. Last time I voted, I lived two blocks from where I do now. It was at a different building, but I didn't know if that was because I changed districts in my two-block move or if they had simply changed buildings. So I was really unsure whether I needed to re-register or not. So I followed the people who were already registered past the huge line and found someone to ask.
I gave the woman my address, she looked in her book and said I was in a different ward and should be voting at a different building. However, I tended to trust the website more than this book she was looking at. I looked at the big book. I have an odd address (living on the south side of the street). The row she was pointing at only listed even addresses. She said that my odd address just fell in there somehow. I was not convinced. She took me to the map. I pointed out that I lived on the street that is border between wards and that since I was on the south side of the street, I should be in the southern ward, which votes at the library. She goes to check with another guy. He looks at the book. He looks at the map. He looks at the book again. I repeat my address about 43 TIMES!!!
Finally, the guy agrees with me, that I am in the right place, that the web is right, and the book is either just confusing or wrong. So, after all this, I was not about to go to the end of the now 2-hour line. So I said, "So...do I get a card now?" OK, so I probably unjustly skipped a LOT of people in line. Sorry bout that.
So anyway, I voted. I'm not particularly happy with some of the candidate outcomes (governor, in particular), but I am proud of Wisconsin's ballot measure decisions.