Democracy thwarted by a breakdown in bureaucracy. Or just incompetence.
Today I have some hate. I don't usually like to get my hate on, especially early in the morning, but today I feel it's justified.
I went to the polls today, to cast my vote for (what feels like) the most important non-Presidential election of my life, happy and proud to be doing my civic duty and all that, but really, just terribly anxious to do my part to help keep the Democratic majority in the Senate. And I get there, and...my name isn't on the register. I talk to the district Warden, explaining that I had registered to vote late last August or perhaps early September, when I got my license.
She gave me a sympathetic look. "Oh...well...they're sometimes not so good about turning in the voter registration paperwork," she explains.
What!?! The RMV offers the service of registering people when they get their license...but aren't good about turning in the paperwork??
So she calls City Hall, to see if I'm on a list there, and when I'm not, they take all my information, claiming that I can cast a provisional ballot, which may or may not be counted, depending on what kind of answer they get from the RMV when they get in contact with them. So...supposedly I'll get a call from City Hall sometime today, to let me know whether my vote counts or not. I am very frustrated. Very, very frustrated.
I went to the polls today, to cast my vote for (what feels like) the most important non-Presidential election of my life, happy and proud to be doing my civic duty and all that, but really, just terribly anxious to do my part to help keep the Democratic majority in the Senate. And I get there, and...my name isn't on the register. I talk to the district Warden, explaining that I had registered to vote late last August or perhaps early September, when I got my license.
She gave me a sympathetic look. "Oh...well...they're sometimes not so good about turning in the voter registration paperwork," she explains.
What!?! The RMV offers the service of registering people when they get their license...but aren't good about turning in the paperwork??
So she calls City Hall, to see if I'm on a list there, and when I'm not, they take all my information, claiming that I can cast a provisional ballot, which may or may not be counted, depending on what kind of answer they get from the RMV when they get in contact with them. So...supposedly I'll get a call from City Hall sometime today, to let me know whether my vote counts or not. I am very frustrated. Very, very frustrated.