I get off work today and go to vote. I get in line and there are four people lined up to check us in and I have one person in front of me. The first person asks for the persons address and proceeds to look it up. After several minutes it is determined that he was looking under the wrong street name.When he does find the right address it has someone’s name that doesn’t live on the property. The person in front of me presented ID and it was confirmed they lived at the correct property. They had never heard of the person listed on the voting paperwork. They were passed to the second person who attempted to look up their name, the second person didn’t understand how the alphabet worked and it was finally pointed to the person that she needed to go back a couple pages if the correct name was to be found. After 10 minutes the person in front of me was pulled aside to fill out a special form and a long line had formed behind me.
I moved directly to the second person. She confirmed my ID matched my name and I signed next to my name. She told me I had to go back the the first guy to verify my address. With the long line of people behind me I looked at her thinking “wtf”. Then a women from behind person 2 said I didn’t need to go back to the first guy. The two of them got into a conversation for several minutes and before I knew it I was on my way to person 3. This guy started handing me a folder, cards and a pen. As he was handing it off he stopped and said “Oh wait you get yours from the next person”. After this happens I think to myself “This is the staff controlling the vote of the people?”. I move onto person 4 who has purple hair and seems to be on valum. I am handed a ballot in a folder with a pen. I vote and read the instructions on the folder. It stated I was to hand the folder covered ballot to the person, who just happened to be person 4 with the purple hair, and they were to put it in a ballot box. I walk up to the desk and hand my ballot to the purple haired person and my ballot is stacked on top a couple dozen other ballots on the desk. When asked I was told the ballot box was being emptied.
Nothing against people with purple hair and it is only mentioned for ID purposes. Thinking back on the things that took place it pisses me off. So unprofessional and uncoordinated. American citizens exercising their right to vote and they are greeted with coloring books and crayons. Bullshit.