I just voted - it was a horrible experience.
First, I had to find my precinct. There was nobody to come pick me up. I had to find my own way there and provide my own transportation. This is absurd. In a nation where we can find the money to fight a war, why cannot we find the money to drive me to the polls.
Second, when I got there, I had to park in an uncovered parking lot. It was raining. There was nobody there to escort me to the building with an umbrella. Nobody had built a covered walkway from the parking lot to the building. This is intoleratable. If we can find enough money to fight a war, we should be able to come up with a few bucks to have someone with an umbrella standing in the parking lot.
Third - and this is the horrible part - If you are under 18 years of age, do no read any further. What comes next is a vision from Hades.
<you have been warned>
As I entered the polling place, there were PEOPLE standing all around. One of them asked me for my NAME - can you BELIEVE this?? ME - an honorable citizen having to give my NAME to a perfect stranger.
I whispered my name, hoping none of the other bystanders would further violate my privacy, and was directed to another perfect stranger's table. I felt humiliated.
<it gets worse - read no further if you are weak of heart>
<you have been warned - this is really bad stuff coming next - leave now>
This second stranger asked for my IDENTIFICATION <OMG - I thought the gates of hell had opened up before me - I could hardly breath - my past life came flooding before my eyes>
After surviving the outrage - I surrendered my driver's license to his possession. Now listen to THIS - he actually READ IT !!!! He compared my ADDRESS on my license to some data he had written in his secret book - he LOOKED at me - after glancing at my PICTURE - he actually LOOKED at me. I lost my breath again, not sure if I could survive this gauntlet of intimidation, but I was determined to cast my vote in the face of anything the intimidators could put in my way.
Now came the ultimate indignation - It takes all my resolve to retell what came next. It was horrible.
<warning - warning - warning>
I HAD TO SIGN MY NAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg - i said it - the ultimate outrage - fortunately my senses returned to me in time for me to make my mark, and after looking AGAIN at my driver's license, he begrudedly gave my license back to me and uttered "maching number two" to me. My head was swimming from the ordeal. I really don't know what happened next. It is all a blur in my mind. I slowly dragged myself to the machine where another perfect stranger stood. Somehow, I completed the mission, but somehow the fun had been taken out of the whole episode. I felt as though I had been stripped naked and stood up for ridicule. I may never vote again.
Please feel free to pass this on to those who are planning to vote. I would not want another innocent victim to walk into this den of iniquity unprepared. I wish I had been warned. I may have stayed home and played solitaire.
Where is the OUTRAGE ???????
First, I had to find my precinct. There was nobody to come pick me up. I had to find my own way there and provide my own transportation. This is absurd. In a nation where we can find the money to fight a war, why cannot we find the money to drive me to the polls.
Second, when I got there, I had to park in an uncovered parking lot. It was raining. There was nobody there to escort me to the building with an umbrella. Nobody had built a covered walkway from the parking lot to the building. This is intoleratable. If we can find enough money to fight a war, we should be able to come up with a few bucks to have someone with an umbrella standing in the parking lot.
Third - and this is the horrible part - If you are under 18 years of age, do no read any further. What comes next is a vision from Hades.
<you have been warned>
As I entered the polling place, there were PEOPLE standing all around. One of them asked me for my NAME - can you BELIEVE this?? ME - an honorable citizen having to give my NAME to a perfect stranger.
I whispered my name, hoping none of the other bystanders would further violate my privacy, and was directed to another perfect stranger's table. I felt humiliated.
<it gets worse - read no further if you are weak of heart>
<you have been warned - this is really bad stuff coming next - leave now>
This second stranger asked for my IDENTIFICATION <OMG - I thought the gates of hell had opened up before me - I could hardly breath - my past life came flooding before my eyes>
After surviving the outrage - I surrendered my driver's license to his possession. Now listen to THIS - he actually READ IT !!!! He compared my ADDRESS on my license to some data he had written in his secret book - he LOOKED at me - after glancing at my PICTURE - he actually LOOKED at me. I lost my breath again, not sure if I could survive this gauntlet of intimidation, but I was determined to cast my vote in the face of anything the intimidators could put in my way.
Now came the ultimate indignation - It takes all my resolve to retell what came next. It was horrible.
<warning - warning - warning>
I HAD TO SIGN MY NAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg - i said it - the ultimate outrage - fortunately my senses returned to me in time for me to make my mark, and after looking AGAIN at my driver's license, he begrudedly gave my license back to me and uttered "maching number two" to me. My head was swimming from the ordeal. I really don't know what happened next. It is all a blur in my mind. I slowly dragged myself to the machine where another perfect stranger stood. Somehow, I completed the mission, but somehow the fun had been taken out of the whole episode. I felt as though I had been stripped naked and stood up for ridicule. I may never vote again.
Please feel free to pass this on to those who are planning to vote. I would not want another innocent victim to walk into this den of iniquity unprepared. I wish I had been warned. I may have stayed home and played solitaire.
Where is the OUTRAGE ???????
It's a conspiracy!
Well surely you are entitled to better than that!
Not only did we have presidential, senate, and congressional races, but we had city council, school board, several judges, water management board, and eight constitutional amendments!!! Even though I had reviewed them all prior to the election, it still took a few minutes to scan them and make sure that what was on the actual ballot matched the sample ballot.
