I love the smell of a voting booth in the morning...

[malada]

... smells like democracy.

So I get to the polling place and see they're having printer problems. I chill in the short line and when the woman in charge pulls the power chord on the printer to reboot it I give her a thumbs up. We laugh.

They reload the paper and presto! The printer works! I get the first sheet out and mark away. I do sort of miss the old mechanical voting machines with their clicks and chunk-chunk sounds - not to mention the curtain closing and opening but they were getting long in the tooth even when I started voting back in the last century.

-m

Comments

[dewline]

Thank you.

Good luck.

[kylinn]

I miss the old clicks and clunks too - but even more I miss the privacy of the curtain that closed behind you. Now you're supposed to sit at a table or stand at a little stand with totally inadequate 'privacy' dividers maybe a foot long, and nothing behind you.