I sent in my voter registration last spring so that I could vote in some primaries over the summer. Of course, when it came time to actually vote, my name wasn’t registered. Oh well, it’s just the primaries.
So, about a week and a half ago, I sent in another voter registration to the Boulder County Clerk’s office, used my extra nice handwriting, and mailed it in with a valid first-class stamp. On Friday afternoon, I looked on the internet to see if they had me in the computer; nope. Oh well, I figured that I would call them today, I was sure that they were just backlogged in entering data. Nope, when I called them this morning, they stated that they had all of the registrations entered from the mail. I don’t think it should take a week and a half for first class mail to make it three miles to the County Clerk’s office. So now I guess I’ll just have to drive down there and do it in person, try to get a receipt or something, and just hope that they don’t manage to fuck up again.
Well, after talking to the person on the phone for a few more minutes and establishing that they most definitely in possession of my form, and the person on the phone informed me that, “if I really cared I ought to have registered in person in the first place,” from the person on the other side of the phone (funny, I thought that we could trust the Postal Service for things like this, but I guess I was wrong), I’m off to go make my Saab, “a vehicle for demcratic change!”
When I get there I’m going to ask if the County Clerk is an elected position; is it up for this election?
