| Aammondd wrote:
>In the East Bay area we had a quad fold ballot with choices on all sides and were given a purple felt tip marker to fill in a small rectangular box.
That's funny... I'm in West Berzerkely and the polling station I was at had punches. It may have been different in different polling stations, but that would seem suspicious to me... wouldn't they want a consistent method?
Speaking of which, I have a friend who thinks he caught a poll monitor trying to 'read' someone's ballot; when the voter left, the monitor held on to the ballot for a minute or so, and seemed (my friend thought) to be trying to figure out what the marking represent. When my friend approached with his own ballot, the monitor quickly threw the other ballot in the box, as if he'd been caught at something.
I'm not sure I buy that; the ballots fold over to cover part of the markings, and they are aligned in a way that is difficult to work out visually. Besides this friend seems to see hostile forces everywhere (funny that, he being a Republican in Berkeley and all...). At the polling station I was at, they were very specific to get the ballot in while I was watching, but he was on the other side of town when he says it happened. Still, it is clear that poll fraud is to be found everywhere, from every side, and that there isn't much that can be done about it. |
