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Early voting
Aug. 21st, 2010 06:22 pmIn other news, we went ahead and did early voting again today.
Same place as when I last did early voting - the West Oaks library over in Ocoee, near a combined Baskin-Robbins/Dunkin Donuts that seemed to be yelling, quite loudly, "Come! Eat us!" We actually managed to resist the call. (Mostly because you can't take ice cream into the library.)
Quite a contrast from the last time, which was early voting for a presidential election, with lines stretching way, way outside and up a hill and everyone eager and excited. This time, the number of volunteers about equaled the number of voters, and everyone except the volunteers seemed kinda depressed. (In my own case part of this was from realizing yet again that the West Oak library does a much better job of organizing DVDs than the Winter Garden branch does. )
Afterwards, I put on my little "I voted" sticker, and ran into a Potential Voter.
"There's an election today?" she exclaimed.
"Well, early voting," we explained. "The actual election is Tuesday."
"Wow," she said. "I didn't hear about it. So...who do you think I should vote for?"
Since this was primarily a primary election (I'm a registered non-partisan, but showed up for the supposedly non-partisan Orange County Mayor vote since that's all about the bus system) and I had no idea what party she was registered for, this was a slightly difficult question to answer, especially, as it turned out, she was unaware that yes, yes, Florida will be voting in a new senator and governor this year. I went with, "Anyone but Rick Scott," (who may be running the most irritating and offensive television ads, bar none, that I've seen in a history of excessively irritating and offensive television ads).
"I'm really interested in education," she told us.
"Well, most politicians will at least say they're interested in education," said my brother.
Did I mention that in this election, which she was unaware of, we are also voting in new members of the (generally irritating) Orange County School Board?
Same place as when I last did early voting - the West Oaks library over in Ocoee, near a combined Baskin-Robbins/Dunkin Donuts that seemed to be yelling, quite loudly, "Come! Eat us!" We actually managed to resist the call. (Mostly because you can't take ice cream into the library.)
Quite a contrast from the last time, which was early voting for a presidential election, with lines stretching way, way outside and up a hill and everyone eager and excited. This time, the number of volunteers about equaled the number of voters, and everyone except the volunteers seemed kinda depressed. (In my own case part of this was from realizing yet again that the West Oak library does a much better job of organizing DVDs than the Winter Garden branch does. )
Afterwards, I put on my little "I voted" sticker, and ran into a Potential Voter.
"There's an election today?" she exclaimed.
"Well, early voting," we explained. "The actual election is Tuesday."
"Wow," she said. "I didn't hear about it. So...who do you think I should vote for?"
Since this was primarily a primary election (I'm a registered non-partisan, but showed up for the supposedly non-partisan Orange County Mayor vote since that's all about the bus system) and I had no idea what party she was registered for, this was a slightly difficult question to answer, especially, as it turned out, she was unaware that yes, yes, Florida will be voting in a new senator and governor this year. I went with, "Anyone but Rick Scott," (who may be running the most irritating and offensive television ads, bar none, that I've seen in a history of excessively irritating and offensive television ads).
"I'm really interested in education," she told us.
"Well, most politicians will at least say they're interested in education," said my brother.
Did I mention that in this election, which she was unaware of, we are also voting in new members of the (generally irritating) Orange County School Board?
