went to vote last night and was asked if it was my first time!
Okay, I've yet to miss an election. Heck, this year is the first year I ever missed voting in the primary.. but it was my first time voting in person in NY.
In college (turned 18 at the end of my senior year of HS), I voted via absentee ballot. After that, I lived in NC and voted there. Then in law school, I was still technically an NC resident, so I voted via absentee ballot in NC.
So this was the first year I voted in NY in person, and I'd never seen these sorts of voting things before. NC is a paper ballot and you literally use a marker to vote.
ANYWAY, I knew about the switches and the lever, but I did not know that you had to move the lever to close the curtain.
I figured it out before I needed help, but when I stepped out of the booth, the guy working there (older gentleman) asked me if it was my first time voting... I felt like an idiot - well, and was maybe a little offended he thought I made it to this age and had never voted. I explained it to him and he was like 'Oh, they don't have booths like this in NC?'
Grr... oh, and trying to explain to the older people who were working there why FH and I Have the same address, but different last names was interesting, too. THey were like, 'but aren't you married?' Uh... not yet.![]()
In college (turned 18 at the end of my senior year of HS), I voted via absentee ballot. After that, I lived in NC and voted there. Then in law school, I was still technically an NC resident, so I voted via absentee ballot in NC.
So this was the first year I voted in NY in person, and I'd never seen these sorts of voting things before. NC is a paper ballot and you literally use a marker to vote.
ANYWAY, I knew about the switches and the lever, but I did not know that you had to move the lever to close the curtain.
I figured it out before I needed help, but when I stepped out of the booth, the guy working there (older gentleman) asked me if it was my first time voting... I felt like an idiot - well, and was maybe a little offended he thought I made it to this age and had never voted. I explained it to him and he was like 'Oh, they don't have booths like this in NC?'
Grr... oh, and trying to explain to the older people who were working there why FH and I Have the same address, but different last names was interesting, too. THey were like, 'but aren't you married?' Uh... not yet.
