Tuesday, November 02, 2004

And in the grand tradition of being overlooked and ignored...

I woke up early this morning and spent nearly an hour trying to get onto the NYC Voter Hotline because my Voter Registration card never came in and I wasn't positive where my polling location would be, or what I'd have to do when I got there (although I was pretty certain it would be Lerner, which it was).

When I finally managed to get through to someone, we spent 10min searching through the system for my information. How she finally managed to find it is unclear to me, but it suffices to say that I was on the brink of giving up and had already started mentally pre-writing a blog entry about the fiasco when she located me. She gave me my voter and district numbers for when I arrived at the polls.

Upon my arrival, I found the correct table for my district numbers (ED and AD), and, lo and behold, I was not in the book. In fact, they checked all of the other books as well (they weren't super busy yet). No mention of me anywhere. So they gave me a paper ballot and sent me off to some corner. I filled it out. Slipped it into an envelope. And the words, "That's it," being uttered by the boy who collected my paperwork ended my voting experience.

A little deflating, I gotta say. "I wanna push the button!"


promulgated by SWS2.1 at 10:47.
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