Voting
The light rain sure didn’t keep me from voting in Arizona’s Democratic Primary this morning, but bureaucracy almost did.
As you may know, 2-3 months ago we moved into our new house. About 1 month ago, I got a letter from Maricopa County saying, “Hey! We noticed you moved! Send in this form and we’ll change your address for you.” So I did.
2-3 weeks ago I got a sample ballot and notification of polling place sent to me at our new address. Being the only registered Democrat in the house at the moment, it had to have been sent to me.
So today I went to vote. But they didn’t have me on the list. I explained what the deal was, and they let me vote…. using a provisional ballot. Which kind of sucks, because even though I’m confident that in a week my vote will count, it’s not the same as if it had “just worked”.
But at least I voted.
Update (02/17/04): I just checked, and my vote, in fact, did count. Cool.
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