I’m fucking pissed about voting yesterday & have filed a complaint about it. The poll workers totally fucked it up…as I have now learned that they have for every election for the past couple of years since we got these voting machines.
We used to have state-of-the-art electronic machines but they changed a couple of years ago due to audit / security reasons. Now, when we go into polling place & sign in you’re handed a 8½ x 11" paper ballot, a sharpie & a folder where you walk over to a three-sided booth & make your choices before putting it in the folder & walking over to the tabulation machine where it’s fed in & counted. That way, if there’s any issue, there is a paper ballot that they can go back & manually count if necessary.
Except in my polling location, the poll worker always takes the folder from me & takes the ballot & feeds it into the machine. I’ve never felt comfortable with this but yesterday the poll worker was someone I know. They are only supposed to touch those people who ask them for assistance in feeding it in & even then, they are supposed to keep the folder over top of it so that they can’t see the ballot
Now I’m not stating that he did such but it would only be human nature to look at that top corner (president) & see how I voted. I did not have a secret ballot!!!
With the poll-arity (Ha!) between the two sides that is totally unacceptable given that I haven’t talked about my political beliefs & how I was going to vote.