I finally finished voting. Took me almost an hour and a half to do it (i live on campus..and now that i thikn about it i wish voter apathy was high so it would only take me 5 mintes ) and right now i'm proud to be an american, although its 80 degrees outside, i'm waeraing sweaters and jeans and anothere sweater...and i'm still cold (i'm sick )
But I went in..waited 20 minutes, and then a lady took me to the front of the line because it seems almost everyone there is last name A-L (I am M-Z). I filled it ou, and then found it my old dorm address was still registered. What pissed me off is i re-registered at a booth on campus about a month ago. Maybe they threw mine away because i registered as a libertarian instead of repulbican(if they were republications) or democrats (if they were democrats). Either way that pissed me off but luckily it was just a quick 5 minute form i had to use to "Correct" my address. And then began the next 35 minutes to wait in line to vote oncei'm "confirmed" or whatever. They had this insteresting machine spit out an "Acess code" for me to vote on. It seemed pretty cool and simple, like a receipt. once i got in the machine i had to stick in my acess code and choose a language (altho i was tempted to choose chinese to see my skills, but i decided to do that another time would have been cool if they had arabic as i would've chosen that).
And the actual voting..imagine one of those microsoft pc tablets, but fatter and thicker. and it wasn't touch pad, instead you had a "wheel" that you turned that selected different candidates.
So it started and took a while to get used to it, tho once i got it i found myself playing with the wheel for a second I cast my vote and i thought i would be prepared. i wasn't. I did read up on the propositions, but b/c i was sick i forgot the details of some and didn't vote...and i TOTALLY overlooked anything on the local level~ and since on the local level is where i make an impact, i felt bad to leaving them all blank (since i'm not stupid enough to do a straight ticket)...but i know for the future i'm going to defintely look at the whole local issues much more carefully.
and one other thing: what is with so many propositions! What do we pay our state senate for if evertying slightly controversial gets tossed as a proposition on the ballot =_= we might as well rid of them and put the control in our hands in that situation. I understand the whole idea of having referendum...but there were like 10 propositions!
In summary:
- Finally happy i voted in a presidential election (i don't want to miss any)
- Thank God California is easily going to kerry, else I'd have to vote for Kerry in the sense of "voting against bush", intead of voting for who i want to: Badarnik
- Too many voters on campus these days, even provisional ballots had to be replaced and they got fubared copies or something
- new electronic voting machines are cool and provide hours of enjoyment for the simple minded
But I went in..waited 20 minutes, and then a lady took me to the front of the line because it seems almost everyone there is last name A-L (I am M-Z). I filled it ou, and then found it my old dorm address was still registered. What pissed me off is i re-registered at a booth on campus about a month ago. Maybe they threw mine away because i registered as a libertarian instead of repulbican(if they were republications) or democrats (if they were democrats). Either way that pissed me off but luckily it was just a quick 5 minute form i had to use to "Correct" my address. And then began the next 35 minutes to wait in line to vote oncei'm "confirmed" or whatever. They had this insteresting machine spit out an "Acess code" for me to vote on. It seemed pretty cool and simple, like a receipt. once i got in the machine i had to stick in my acess code and choose a language (altho i was tempted to choose chinese to see my skills, but i decided to do that another time would have been cool if they had arabic as i would've chosen that).
And the actual voting..imagine one of those microsoft pc tablets, but fatter and thicker. and it wasn't touch pad, instead you had a "wheel" that you turned that selected different candidates.
So it started and took a while to get used to it, tho once i got it i found myself playing with the wheel for a second I cast my vote and i thought i would be prepared. i wasn't. I did read up on the propositions, but b/c i was sick i forgot the details of some and didn't vote...and i TOTALLY overlooked anything on the local level~ and since on the local level is where i make an impact, i felt bad to leaving them all blank (since i'm not stupid enough to do a straight ticket)...but i know for the future i'm going to defintely look at the whole local issues much more carefully.
and one other thing: what is with so many propositions! What do we pay our state senate for if evertying slightly controversial gets tossed as a proposition on the ballot =_= we might as well rid of them and put the control in our hands in that situation. I understand the whole idea of having referendum...but there were like 10 propositions!
In summary:
- Finally happy i voted in a presidential election (i don't want to miss any)
- Thank God California is easily going to kerry, else I'd have to vote for Kerry in the sense of "voting against bush", intead of voting for who i want to: Badarnik
- Too many voters on campus these days, even provisional ballots had to be replaced and they got fubared copies or something
- new electronic voting machines are cool and provide hours of enjoyment for the simple minded