I voted
November 5th, 2008
I can’t believe they didn’t ask for ID at the polls. The one guy there thought I was Chris and if I knew “Chris” I could have voted as him. It doesn’t really help me to vote as other people considering Jersey continues to be Democratic since the 1992 election. It means I could have gone to other polling places and voted as random people that I knew wasn’t voting.
I personally wasn’t too concerned with the outcome of the vote but it seems to me that it wasn’t handled well. In Philadelphia some people apparently waited six hours to vote! It took me five minutes and that’s only because I actually had to make a decision. After this many elections and voting machines how can we still have problems?
Indeed the voting system in this country is flawed. When I went to vote it was empty and the guy still managed to mistake me for my father, who is 30 years older than me. It is also true that New Jersey is super Democratic, but that didn’t stop me from casting my vote anyway. Other places that I saw had lines out the door and around the building. I guess I can thank my lucky stars that my polling place is always empty.