i left my house today happy, knowing that i was on my way to vote! i've been pretty excited about the democratic primaries. i'd decided to vote for barack obama.
so i get to the polling place, and the women at the first table tell me that they don't have my name listed on the register and send me to the next table (which was for a different precinct). they didn't have my name either!
i explained to them that i registered to vote in riverside county when i first moved here (at some university orientation event). i had actually voted a couple of months after i registered. i confess that i did not vote last spring and last november, but i was ready to vote today.
this was the same polling place, but, all of a sudden, they don't have my name!
the woman in charge made a phone call to see where i was registered in the county database, and the county doesn't have my name at all! but she did kindly me a registration card. i thanked her and reminded her that i had filled one out a year and four months ago!
no matter. somehow i have become UNregistered. i feel very disenfranchised.
and if barack loses california by one vote, i'm going to be very upset.
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Eek! How do these sorts of things happen?
that stinks! i had a similar mishap this year. i went through all kinds of trouble to get registered on time (NM) and then forgot to get an absentee ballot. ayayay.
oh yea--except i wasn't disenfranchised... did you hear that the same thing happened to other people in riverside today too??
That's terrible! That happened to me two elections ago, even though I had lived at the same address for a few years and had voted at that polling place before; there was just some sort of freak mix-up. BUT, when that happens they are supposed to give you a Provisional Ballot AND let you vote and the ballot goes in a special pile, and they have to confirm all the info and if it all checks out, then your vote *does* count! The poll workers at your polling place weren't trained properly! I wonder if there was an election monitor present when this happened? I know it's no help now but maybe you can report the error to your Registrar of Voters? Yea, I take these things seriously! I'm so sorry this happened! Let's hope California still Baracks-The-Vote! Abrazo, ~ mari.
conspiracy!
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