I recently moved to a new area and got a card in the mail telling me my polling place. On election day I showed up and found out three districts use that building.
So I asked the volunteer which district I was in. He asked for my address, then said, “I don’t know where that is”. K thx, buddy. Then he whipped out a 20 year outdated paper map and asked me to find my house. The street wasn’t even there! After finally stepping out of line (and some exasperated groans of relief behind me) I did 15 minutes of frantic googling to find my district. Then I had to go to the back of the line and wait again.
I was lucky I had the day off work for all that nonsense. Most people don’t have that luxury.
This is why we need to push for universal mail in ballots
In my state we do mail in ballots for everyone and it’s great, I can literally take days to look over the measures and people before I have to turn it in.
Yes! I live in California and my ballot comes right to my mailbox. I usually visit a polling center a block away to mail it, but I’ve also run out of time and stuck it in the mail. You can track if it was received with a ballot tracking system.
Voting is so easy in California. It’s almost harder not to vote with this system in place. Like, you’d really have to be against it.
I recently moved to a new area and got a card in the mail telling me my polling place. On election day I showed up and found out three districts use that building.
So I asked the volunteer which district I was in. He asked for my address, then said, “I don’t know where that is”. K thx, buddy. Then he whipped out a 20 year outdated paper map and asked me to find my house. The street wasn’t even there! After finally stepping out of line (and some exasperated groans of relief behind me) I did 15 minutes of frantic googling to find my district. Then I had to go to the back of the line and wait again.
I was lucky I had the day off work for all that nonsense. Most people don’t have that luxury.
This is why we need to push for universal mail in ballots
In my state we do mail in ballots for everyone and it’s great, I can literally take days to look over the measures and people before I have to turn it in.
Yes! I live in California and my ballot comes right to my mailbox. I usually visit a polling center a block away to mail it, but I’ve also run out of time and stuck it in the mail. You can track if it was received with a ballot tracking system.
Voting is so easy in California. It’s almost harder not to vote with this system in place. Like, you’d really have to be against it.
Jesus, so you had the right place all along? That is fucked… We’re you able to vote? What did you tell them the second time through?
Usually they have your name on a list, and they check it off.