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Well...Crap
Nov. 7th, 2006 11:46 amI have been disenfranchised.
Get this: the wrong middle name is on my voter registration card. My hometown and middle name begin with the same letter, and somehow (probably because I registered at a student government tent while dashing between classes and was frazzled) the former got put on the card instead of the latter. NO ONE noticed this in 2004 when I voted in the presidential election, even though I presented my driver's license and voter registration card together and they were duly looked over. Hell, I didn't even notice it.
So I went to the polling place today, and they looked at my ID, looked at my card, and were like, "This ain't gonna work."
I think I said something like, "Huh?"
And then I basically got accused of voting fraud and told that no, I couldn't fill out a provisional ballot because hello, apparently I'm not even a registered voter, so plz to go home now and STFU.
Fuck. I really wanted to vote for the Libertarian candidate for governor. She seems smart, and she's campaigning on her boobs.
Edit: Voted! I went back and the woman working was like, "Okay, I see how this mix-up happened." No trouble at all. Apparently I just got a dick poll worker this morning. It was before 8 AM; maybe he hadn't had his coffee yet.
Get this: the wrong middle name is on my voter registration card. My hometown and middle name begin with the same letter, and somehow (probably because I registered at a student government tent while dashing between classes and was frazzled) the former got put on the card instead of the latter. NO ONE noticed this in 2004 when I voted in the presidential election, even though I presented my driver's license and voter registration card together and they were duly looked over. Hell, I didn't even notice it.
So I went to the polling place today, and they looked at my ID, looked at my card, and were like, "This ain't gonna work."
I think I said something like, "Huh?"
And then I basically got accused of voting fraud and told that no, I couldn't fill out a provisional ballot because hello, apparently I'm not even a registered voter, so plz to go home now and STFU.
Fuck. I really wanted to vote for the Libertarian candidate for governor. She seems smart, and she's campaigning on her boobs.
Edit: Voted! I went back and the woman working was like, "Okay, I see how this mix-up happened." No trouble at all. Apparently I just got a dick poll worker this morning. It was before 8 AM; maybe he hadn't had his coffee yet.
