Tear Down This Wall
11/7/2006, 03:35 PM
Call me old fashioned, but I like to vote on the day of the vote, so that's what I did today at lunch. Voting was easy enough, but there are two complaints I have:
1. Idiots without their voters registration cards
This is really starting to annoy me. I'd say there were about 15 people in line going through the motions to vote while I was there. Only four of us had our voters registration cards. The other dickwheels didn't have their cards and showed their drivers' licenses.
Two catastrophic f-ups didn't have drivers licenses with addresses in our district. They were given paper work to fill out an address change so they could vote. WTF?
In Mexico, where my wife is from, you are issued a voting card. It has your picture on it, your government number (like our SS #), your fingerprint, and your address. In Mexico, no card, no vote. That's the way it should be here. It's not rocket science to keep your voters registration card in a safe place.
Dillholes.
2. Computer voting
This is the first time our district has had computerized voting, and I have severe objections. First, I'm handed what looks like a credit card instead of a ballot. No problem. I can live with that.
But,...
After I vote, I'm supposed to give the card to an election official. No problem there except he's got a whole pile of them there because he's gotten behind in what he's supposed to doing. The old paper ballot way, you'd walk over to the drop box and personally feed the paper into it while the election official stood there and watched.
I wasn't crazy about leaving my ballot card with a guy without seeing him register the vote. Maybe I should have stayed, but he had a pile of at least a dozen there, and he kept getting up to help the idiots who could figure out how to work the voting booths.
It amazes me how stupid people are. Just put the card in, select your language, press the name on the screen of the person you want to vote for, hit the damn 'Ballot Complete' button, and be done with it. F'n morons.
Anyway, I'm proud to have voted, but I'm not shocked at all about the complaints of computer glitches around the country. My district's polling station seemed way understaffed, and this in a fairly affluent part of North Dallas/Collin County.
Pathetic.
1. Idiots without their voters registration cards
This is really starting to annoy me. I'd say there were about 15 people in line going through the motions to vote while I was there. Only four of us had our voters registration cards. The other dickwheels didn't have their cards and showed their drivers' licenses.
Two catastrophic f-ups didn't have drivers licenses with addresses in our district. They were given paper work to fill out an address change so they could vote. WTF?
In Mexico, where my wife is from, you are issued a voting card. It has your picture on it, your government number (like our SS #), your fingerprint, and your address. In Mexico, no card, no vote. That's the way it should be here. It's not rocket science to keep your voters registration card in a safe place.
Dillholes.
2. Computer voting
This is the first time our district has had computerized voting, and I have severe objections. First, I'm handed what looks like a credit card instead of a ballot. No problem. I can live with that.
But,...
After I vote, I'm supposed to give the card to an election official. No problem there except he's got a whole pile of them there because he's gotten behind in what he's supposed to doing. The old paper ballot way, you'd walk over to the drop box and personally feed the paper into it while the election official stood there and watched.
I wasn't crazy about leaving my ballot card with a guy without seeing him register the vote. Maybe I should have stayed, but he had a pile of at least a dozen there, and he kept getting up to help the idiots who could figure out how to work the voting booths.
It amazes me how stupid people are. Just put the card in, select your language, press the name on the screen of the person you want to vote for, hit the damn 'Ballot Complete' button, and be done with it. F'n morons.
Anyway, I'm proud to have voted, but I'm not shocked at all about the complaints of computer glitches around the country. My district's polling station seemed way understaffed, and this in a fairly affluent part of North Dallas/Collin County.
Pathetic.