Polling place asking which party you wanted to vote for?

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

Hi - I voted at Dilboy and they asked me who I was going to vote for (in order, I guess to give me a red or blue ballot). I was a bit taken aback since I can't recall ever having been asked before. The people at the desk said they didn't know why they were asking- they just asked and marked down my response. (the blue pill). There was no independent option.

Anyone know what is up with this? A primary thing?

Comments

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

I saw a guy refuse to answer on the way out, he was kind of a jerk, which was unfortunate because being a jerk to nice old lady's helping you vote is an all time low. Perhaps he was having a bad day.

Anyway, when asked on the way out what ballot he had, he refused to answer and ran for the door. They stopped him and said they needed to know, and he spat back "I'm unenrolled". They then asked again and said they needed to know dem or repub, and he said, The pink one and stormed out the door. Right then his wife who was a few back kept saying he voted republican. They marked him Dem as that one was red and they said, he probably confused the pink and red. She kept trying to tell them he took a republican ballot, but they had to go by what he had said. It was really f'd up, the guy was a jerk.

However, it got me thinking that it might be hard to say you are a republican in a room full of democrats. All the other unenrolled people i saw were Dems...maybe he felt awkward, or maybe he was just a giant douchebag.

There is probably some sort of counting reason you need to indicate on both the way in and way out which ballot you used, but maybe there is a way to do it non verbally?

[zenala.livejournal.com]

Given some of the responses I've gotten from people I thought were my friends around here for innocently hinting at my political leanings, I can understand how someone who's dealt with it for years would get a bit paranoid about being asked...

[ron_newman]

Yes, it's very important that they match the number of ballots they give out with the number of ballots that are handed in.