Vote!

Today is election day in the US. This is what we call an “off year” election because there are no federal offices being voted on this year. In most states there are no major offices being decided today either. The contests that I got to vote on today are a few judgeships, my county legislator, and a bunch of town officials. There was one statewide ammendment to the state constitution to allow the state to swap some land with a town upstate and one local proposition for my town to sell bonds to buy up some unused land so that it could remain undeveloped.

In NY we use the old lever machines and they seem to work fine. I have never had a problem with them in spite of them being really old technology. I went in to my local voting place at about 8:30 and I was the only person there besides the volunteers manning the tables. The whole process took less than five minutes. Being an off year election, I didn’t expect a huge crowd but I did expect more than just me. As I was leaving a guy pulled up and asked me where he was supposed to vote but it turns out this wasn’t his voting place. I had no idea where his voting place was but it wasn’t in my town. Personally, I think waiting until the day of the election to figure out where you are supposed to vote isn’t the best idea.

 

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