Voting continued

I did it. I pulled the lever this morning - so to speak.

I have absolutely no idea exactly how the system works, but it feels like a completely disorganized process that no one involved actually really understands either. Ask one person at the polling place a question, you get one answer. Ask another person, get a completely different answer.

So I went to my "correct" polling location at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance. Told the information desk I needed an affadavit and was directed to the voting booth. Got the form. Didn't need any kind of ID - drivers license, passport, libary card.. metro card? - just got to fill out a form and vote. Sorta crazy. Maybe they check it later? I was told today that my vote will actually be counted with the absentee ballots. Although yesterday was told the opposite. The woman who helped me today, actually told me I should just go over to p.s. 41 instead of using this form. She didn't seem to think it was an issue, nor "illegal" as i was told yesterday... I, of course, feeling lazy and late for work, decided absentee voting was fine...

Bottomline, the people on the ground have absolutely no idea what the rules are. No surprise the electorate can't figure it out. Customer service is how I judge/rate and ultimately decided what companies I use/shop at. I've had great experience with Amazon, AmEx and FedEx to name a few, and so continue to use them. If the government was a company, I would have stopped using their services a long time ago.

As for voting - I feel good that I did. Even if I didn't actually get to pull the lever.