I Thought Globally and Acted Locally and All I Got was a Weird Look from the Polling Lady
So I woke up early this morning to make sure I went and voted.
My dad has been hard at work pushing for the candidate opposing the incumbent mayor. And really, the mayor of my little suburb is about as incumbent as you can get - he's been mayor for like thirty years.
I went to the polling place and was asked if wanted to use an electronic ballot. I didn't. I'm usually down for using gizmos, it probably stems from watching sci-fi movies as a kid. But electronic voting machines fill me with liberal paranoia and dread, due to various reports about vote-flipping and other fraud.
I told the sweet little old lady that I'd rather use a paper ballot. She was taken aback, and remarked that there wasn't many paper ballots.
I told her I'd prefer it, because I had read articles about how the electronic voting machines could be tampered with. This seemed to offend her on a personal level, and I told her that I was probably just being paranoid. She then proceeded to talk about me with the elderly woman who had been in line behind me.
Then I took my paper ballot and voted for the Independent candidate for mayor. Huzzah for me, I guess.
My dad has been hard at work pushing for the candidate opposing the incumbent mayor. And really, the mayor of my little suburb is about as incumbent as you can get - he's been mayor for like thirty years.
I went to the polling place and was asked if wanted to use an electronic ballot. I didn't. I'm usually down for using gizmos, it probably stems from watching sci-fi movies as a kid. But electronic voting machines fill me with liberal paranoia and dread, due to various reports about vote-flipping and other fraud.
I told the sweet little old lady that I'd rather use a paper ballot. She was taken aback, and remarked that there wasn't many paper ballots.
I told her I'd prefer it, because I had read articles about how the electronic voting machines could be tampered with. This seemed to offend her on a personal level, and I told her that I was probably just being paranoid. She then proceeded to talk about me with the elderly woman who had been in line behind me.
Then I took my paper ballot and voted for the Independent candidate for mayor. Huzzah for me, I guess.