Voting Is Awesome!
Well, I went to a polling place for the first time and did my civic duty (having been an Oregon voter previously I did the mail thing). The electronic machines sure are easy to use, but the lack of a paper trail makes me a little nervous. I’ll go out on a limb and say that the vast majority of poll workers are probably honest, so I guess there’s not too much need to fret, but tangible proof of my vote would be pretty handy. I was not the victim of any aggressive eye-rolling, so I wasn’t intimidated by the nice old people whose job it was to check registrations; it was a bit weird to be asked if I wanted the machine in English or Spanish (because trust me folks, nothing about my appearance screams anything but “honkey”), but other than that it was easy enough.
