election day...

since its election day and i work for a news organization, i'm here at work still at 10pm. the polls closed here in NY at 9pm, and now all the interns are scrambling around entering data into our systems. it was kind of nice though coming into work a little later. i got a bunch of stuff done before work.

it kind of amazes me the voting process.. apparently i have been registered to vote at my parents polling place since college. i haven't voted there in at least 12 years, in fact, i've registered at 2 or 3 other places since then. mike and i went over to the polls after my morning walk and there were about six 90 year old women behind the books. i pulled out my license and they looked at it like i was a freak. no ID required to vote. i bet i could have gone back and voted again at night claiming i was SB. then they asked me if this was my first time voting. i've decided that old people are a really bad judge of age. getting carded or asked how old you are by a senior citizen has lost its thrill, they are too out of touch. next time i get carded by someone in their 20's will be an accomplishment...

besides needing no proof that you are of age or actually a registered voter, another thing that amazes me is how they tally the votes so quickly, esp when the people thre are well into their 90's. we didn't have fancy electronic voting machines, they were the typical booths, walk in, pull the handle that shuts the curtain, flick the little knobby things, and push the handle back to register the votes. how the hell does that ancient machine count the votes?