FUCK, IT'S A CONSPIRACY

[rubberbutton]

Right, so I really dragged my feet about registering to vote (I'd been registered in another state), but I did do it at least three weeks before the deadline. It occurred to me today to wonder why I hadn't gotten my little voter card thingy, so I checked online. And I am registered, but the address is wrong. A lot wrong. The only thing right is the street number. Wrong street, wrong city, wrong zip code. Which kind of leads me to believe that the person who fucked up? Not me.

I wonder if I can get it corrected in time. Really, it doesn't matter; Kansas is extremely conservative -- my vote counts for zilch. But it was mine, dammit. I was going to do my civic duty! Make Susan B. Anthony proud! Take part in a (fingers crossed) historic election!

Would it be excessively paranoid of me to suspect the "mistake" happened because I'm a Democrat registering in a red state?

Fucking Republicans.

ETA: I can haz a vote! I called around this morning until I finally got connected with the right person, who cheerfully corrected my address. And then I also wrote a letter to the editor, just to warn people to double-check their registration. Ha.

Comments

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Can't they just correct a database somewhere? What a PAIN!

Is it too late to move to New Mexico?

[rubberbutton.livejournal.com]

Is it too late to move to New Mexico?

Heh. I shall look into it.

[zabira.livejournal.com]

YUK. even if you can't get it fixed in time? i would bring this to SOMEONE'S attention. (heh. maybe the local ACLU, or the NEWSPAPERS even?) it's just NOT. RIGHT. and it does matter.

[rubberbutton.livejournal.com]

i would bring this to SOMEONE'S attention.

Baby, you better believe I've been composing all kinds of strongly worded letters. Strongly worded indeed.

Righteous anger, I haz it.

[zabira.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ \o/

and i hope you can get the administrivia fixed.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

This type of thing is happening all over, apparently. God knows how many voters the Republican party will manage to disqualify this election, just like the last two. It makes me so damn mad!

[rubberbutton.livejournal.com]

This type of thing is happening all over, apparently.

Yeah, I don't know why I'm surprised, really. It just ... wouldn't have been an easy error to make, I don't think. At least not by accident.

The whole process is really a joke.

It makes me so damn mad!

I know! Damn mad about covers it. Well, disgusted and damn mad.

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

Try to get it changed, fast. And no, I don't think that's paranoid, at all.

[rubberbutton.livejournal.com]

Try to get it changed, fast.

Done and done!

And no, I don't think that's paranoid, at all.

It's kind of sad how that seems to be the general consensus.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the "mistake" was fixed, but I bet a fair number of voters are going to show up at the polls and find that they're not allowed to vote because of similar discrepancies. Coincidentally, there happened to be an op-ed column (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin) on this subject in today's New York Times.

[rubberbutton.livejournal.com]

I bet a fair number of voters are going to show up at the polls and find that they're not allowed to vote because of similar discrepancies

I'd love to know the actual numbers, but those aren't usually ones that get publicized.

Thanks for pointing out that op-ed piece. Republicans, man; they hit bottom and keep on digging.