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Civic Duty

February 10th, 2007 at 05:30 am

Did my civic duty on Thursday and voted in the bi-election (our prior representative having vacated for some reason or another). One of the candidates running had ran for local council and I met him then and was impressed. He didn't win so ran in this election. For a change the guy I voted for won. Very strange for me - I usually the one you don't want voting for you cause the other party will get in...

I know the folks that do the polling booths (the election officials) are folks that know someone etc.. Patronage "overpay them for the day" jobs. But come on folks. Please screen them for the ability to read. Literacy rocks for positions that require reading. Or if they are visually impaired provide them with the voters list in braille. Buddy boy looking each person up in the list had a lot of difficulty. It was painful and made something that should have taken less than 5 minutes take about 15 - most of it being spent by him trying to locate your name of the voters list.

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