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

[jadelennox]

there weren't any privacy sleeves at my polling station this morning in Arlington. :(

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

I've never seen privacy sleeves in all the years I've voted in Arlington. I thought Somerville was the only place that had them. (They didn't have them in New York or Michigan when I lived there.) I'm not upset about the lack of privacy sleeves, but if a poll worker insisted on reading my finished ballot before I put it in the box, I'd file a complaint.