Election Day Problems?

[progressnerd.livejournal.com]

I figure you might enjoy a thread for your Election Day problems and oddities. I'll start with one of mine: Why exactly are poll workers instructing voters to remove their ballots entirely from the privacy sleeves before feeding them into the optical scan machines? The point of the privacy sleeve is to ensure your vote isn't bought or coerced, so removing it where it's in plain view entirely defeats the purpose. If you're going to ask us to remove it, might as well not give us one at all. I disobeyed the instruction and fed in my ballot directly from the sleeve, without a hitch as usual. I've tried calling the Elections Department to ask about this bizarre practice, but not surprisingly, I just get a busy signal.

Any problems you found?

Comments

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

The folks at the Teele Square fire house were awfully insistent I use my privacy sleeve, despite my apathy towards people knowing who I voted for.

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

I voted at the Teele Sq fire dept. and the woman told me to take the ballot completely out of the privacy sleeve before I fed it into the machine. I did it face down, so she probably thinks I'm a pro-dog pot head.

[jovianconsensus.livejournal.com]

The lady told me to remove mine. I just pulled it a few inches and it worked fine.

Now she probably thinks I voted for McCain and wanted to hide it...

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It's hard for me to believe anybody wouldn't know your support of Kodos.