On advantages of being in Spain
16 October 2008 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3rdragonWhen you get home at 8:30 and night, clean your room, find you How To Vote By Absentee Ballot postcard, and say to yourself, "Drat! I meant to call my local county officials today and try to get a local ballot in addition to a Federal Write-In Ballot," you still can. Like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pulsebeat says, I'm in the future. And I can make phone calls to the past. Of course, the disadvantage is that the connection is pretty poor, and the first woman can hardly hear me, and when I call back it's only a little bit better.
But I did manage to get my complaint through. And all I can figure out is: somebody screwed up, big time. (Or the guy at the Voter Office lied to me because he was tired of trying to figure out what I was saying through the breaking up. Which is possible.)
At any rate, he told me that they were sending me a new ballot, with a letter explaining why.
I'm not sure how to count this in the Miriam vs. Bureacracy tally.
Maybe it should just be categorized as: Pennsylvania voting office: Fail.
pulsebeat says, I'm in the future. And I can make phone calls to the past. Of course, the disadvantage is that the connection is pretty poor, and the first woman can hardly hear me, and when I call back it's only a little bit better.But I did manage to get my complaint through. And all I can figure out is: somebody screwed up, big time. (Or the guy at the Voter Office lied to me because he was tired of trying to figure out what I was saying through the breaking up. Which is possible.)
At any rate, he told me that they were sending me a new ballot, with a letter explaining why.
I'm not sure how to count this in the Miriam vs. Bureacracy tally.
Maybe it should just be categorized as: Pennsylvania voting office: Fail.
