
Question number zero: Is this sloppier because it's a primary, or could I expect exactly the same situation in November?
Question number one: Thank god I could see the ink come out and I wasn't one of those CA voters who were told THEY WERE WRITING WITH INVISIBLE INK WHEN IN FACT THEY WERE "WRITING" WITH A STYLUS MEANT FOR A TOUCHSCREEN!! Or was I?
Question number two: Was I one of those voters who misunderstood the confusing "if you are not registered as a Democrat, do not not fail to not fill in this question. If not, don't not skip ahead to the next." first question?
Now, why do I say I filled in my ballot, kind of? Because: I voted for a presidential nominee, and then I burst into tears at the sight of the questions. I mean, I didn't, but I could. I got the sample ballots ahead of time. I got the explanation/argument packets in the mail. I tried, I tried to read and understand these things, and in all honesty I have to say: I could not. I could not. Now, I think I'm a fairly smart girl. I don't think I'm as smart as *you* guys seem to think I am, but I do agree that I'm reasonably smart. Literate; educated; even, dare I say, erudite. (Yes, I dare. I even pronounce it correctly.) And I could not separate the fact from the rhetoric or the meat from the hype or the bull from the bullshit. I failed to memorize all the Party's official positions, the no-yes-yes-no-maybe train that came in my handy email (not that I believe in blindly following that anyway) and I had to just leave a bunch of 'em blank.
I threw away my sticker.
[Though I'm not sure if California has been officially tallied yet or not, it currently appears that Clinton has won all four of the states I've ever lived in. Interesting? On the Republican side, McCain won three of them and Romney won MA, of course.]
7 comments:
ERUDITE!!!!! YES! Where are those 5th graders??? :)
Man, voting in California sounds way too hard! I didn't have to answer any questions, though I have in the past. I just picked a Presidential Candidate. However, when I went to vote yesterday morning there were THREE PEOPLE from my high school in Pittsburgh there (including me). At a random polling place in Brighton. Awesome.
wow! movin' on up: http://blogging.la/archives/2008/02/double_bubble_trouble_and_othe.phtml#Blogroll
I don't get to vote in a primary 8until the 19th, but it's a lot easier in Wisconsin.
It'll all get a whole lot easier when they install the Cheneytron 5000s and stop even pretending to count.
You should have smacked Mr. Vote-Looker and asked if he understands what "secret" ballot means.
Not that I condone violence.
It was a figure of speech. I'm sorry.
So, is voting in CA harder than say, only posting a comment once?
SHUT UP HOWIE!!!!!!!! :)
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