I am voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
I am voting, that is, if I ever receive my absentee ballot.
We, my husband and I. mailed our request for absentee ballots on September 26. We mailed two applications, his and mine, in the same envelope to the Fulton County Georgia Voter Registration Division. About 10 days later my husband's ballot came in the mail. No ballot for me arrived.
I waited about a week and called and got someone at the registrars office who said,"Just because you mailed your absentee ballot requests in the same envelope that don't mean they get handled at the same time. We are workin til bout 9 or 10 o'clock at night trying to handle all of this stuff. We's so swamped"
She said wait about a week then call back and check again. I did and when I called back there was no answer and no answering machine taking messages. ( In the meanwhile I had arthroscopic knee surgery and did not feel up to taking on Fulton County again."
After the anaethesia and pain pills wore off I put on my thinking cap and decided to call the Georgia Secretary of State's office and tell them about my voting dilemma. The person who answered, after I was transfered to about 3 different extensions, put me on hold forever. She came back and said she also could not get an answer at the voter's office. She said she would send an email to them. Making an inquiry in my name. Someone should call me from that office by the end of the day.
No one called. Days passed and still no ballot
I called the Secretary of State's office again and the person who answered that time suggested I send in another request for absentee ballot. I did so. By fax and by mail.
Two days later, finally someone with good sense called, identifying herself, and saying she regreted the problem I was having and she would help solve the dilemma.She had been contacted by the Secretary Of State's office. She asked me to fax to her personal fax number my request for ballot and she would "walk it over" to the proper location in the same building. I did so. She called back and said she had received the fax and my ballot would be in the mail no later than tomorrow, Monday, October 20.
Cross your fingers and wish me luck.
(To be continues)
"What a country" :)
6 comments:
GOOD LUCK! I hope she was telling you the truth. I know how frustrating that can be. We are going to try to vote early, sometime this week. I was hoping to avoid long lines on the 4th for mr. kenju. But since early voting started here, there have been so many participating that lines have been very long.
My situation is somewhat similar although I will be going to the polls. I am registered, but since we live in a new area, I am concerned that my name will not be on the list. Hubby got his 'sample' ballot last week and mine has not yet come. I am hoping it will be in the mail today to reassure me that I can vote without problems.
What a frustrating experience. After the first time I asked for an absentee ballot and voted that way I was put on a list and automatically get them for every election now.
Think what a mess this will be if we have a close election. There will be lawsuits and accusations of voter fraud.
Oh for Pete Sake Janet....I hope it comes soon. They didn't do the mail-in ballots here in my town...but they had early voting at our village hall. I voted a few days ago. There was a fairly long line, but I was really glad to vote early. It felt good to get my vote in.
You must have been so relieved to finally receive your ballot. Good for you for sticking in there.
I hope you knee is better following your arthroscopic surgery.
I have fortunately never encountered any of these election screw-ups that I keep reading about. But it's discouraging to learn how an allegedly hi-tech, democratic society like ours allows the voting process to disintegrate in so many places at home. And Bush has been trying to "sell the democratic election process" to such totalitarian societies like Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestine Authority? What a joke!
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