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

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

It was really bizarre. I was there at 7 a.m., so kudos to the pollworkers, especially the supervisors, at my polling place for dealing with this so well and promptly.

Basically, what I observed (people ahead of and in back of me in line) was that whole sections of streets were dropped off the list: someone would come up and say "I'm at 123 Sesame Street," and the pollworker would only have Sesame Street addresses from 300 and up.

While I was voting, a couple came in to vote and she was on the list and he was not. They have lived together at the same address for 10 years or something, and they've filled out every census card together.

GRR! But yay to everyone who did such a good job of handling the screwups.