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wherein Liz votes in the ICSD elections
May. 17th, 2011 10:23 pmThe Ithaca City School District (ICSD) elections were held from 12-9pm today. Coincidentally, I was scheduled to work from, yes, 12-9pm. So yesterday I told PM that I intended to vote, and would it be better for me to come in late or take an extra long break? She said to come in late.
My polling place is an elementary school that is just a few blocks from my house (and actually only a block out of the way on my route into town for work), so getting there was simple. I arrived at a minute past noon, just as the workers were getting set up, and was the third person on their books.
In fact, I was there so early that they hadn't gotten the fancy-schmancy ballot scanning machine to work yet.
*headdesk*
The machine seemed to be on, but it refused to suck in ballots that were held to the intake slot. A couple of the workers ran through the diagnostic program, which reported that everything was working properly -- though that clearly was not the case. One worker then called for help and was told that, since no ballots had yet been read, she should press a menu button to re-open the poll. That finally worked.
Except, of course, by then the first person on the books had gotten fed up and left since he had to get to work. School elections have depressingly low voter turnout anyway, so that's doubly unfortunate. :-(
( so what exactly were the issues before the electorate? )
Ah well, presumably it will all work out in the end.
My polling place is an elementary school that is just a few blocks from my house (and actually only a block out of the way on my route into town for work), so getting there was simple. I arrived at a minute past noon, just as the workers were getting set up, and was the third person on their books.
In fact, I was there so early that they hadn't gotten the fancy-schmancy ballot scanning machine to work yet.
*headdesk*
The machine seemed to be on, but it refused to suck in ballots that were held to the intake slot. A couple of the workers ran through the diagnostic program, which reported that everything was working properly -- though that clearly was not the case. One worker then called for help and was told that, since no ballots had yet been read, she should press a menu button to re-open the poll. That finally worked.
Except, of course, by then the first person on the books had gotten fed up and left since he had to get to work. School elections have depressingly low voter turnout anyway, so that's doubly unfortunate. :-(
( so what exactly were the issues before the electorate? )
Ah well, presumably it will all work out in the end.
