VOTE TODAY!

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Today is Super Tuesday. Go out and vote for your preferred Presidential candidate, whoever he or she may be. Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm.

To find your polling place and view sample ballots, fill out this form.

To check your registration status, fill out this form. If the results page says "Voting Status: INACTIVE" or says "ID required at Polling Location? YES", then bring identification with you to the polls. It does not need to be a photo ID, just something that has your name and current address on it, such as a utility bill.

If you are enrolled in a party, you may vote only that party's ballot. If you are UNenrolled, you may vote any (single) party's ballot.

The Davis Square LJ Presidential Poll will also stay open until 8 pm.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... (ballot colors)

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In the course of a day I often see silly (and sometimes not so silly) things which cause me to wonder about who made the decisions involved and what their thought process was. Today when I went to vote, the color of the ballots provided me with such a moment of wonder.

The Democratic ballot had a pale red header and the Republican ballot a pale blue one.

Now I don't know the history of the colors associated with these political parties but it seems like the norm is: Democrats == blue, Republicans == Red. So how did the ballots end up reversing those typical color associations? Someone decided to do that, someone specified which colors to use on which ballot.

A snafu?
A sly experiment in cognitive disorientation?
An evil conspiracy to... amuse people like me?

I asked the election worker who gave me the ballot and he acknowledged that it was some sort of oversight. Oops. Oh well.

Oh - the guy before was asking for the "Libertarian" ballot and was very dismayed when he was told that there wasn't one – that no one was running. Not sure what was up with that.