We look forward to voting because it is such a nice walk through the woods over to the Point Pleasant Fire Department where our polling station is. New York has new voting machines this year and they already look outdated. I miss the big old slot machine like levers. They gave us giant paper ballots and pens and asked us to “completely fill in the bubbles next to the candidate’s name”. And when we finished with that we were asked to feed it into the black machine labeled “Scanner.” It churned away, confirmed the votes and then submitted them somewhere.
We voted for Schneiderman for Attorney General. Peggi especially liked his response to the question, “What do you do for exercise?” The other candidates all went to the gym or ran but he said he “passes out leaflets at the subway stops”. Of course there were a few other like minded responses on the more substantive issues like the Islamic Community Center.
The city used to set up these grey, wooden, outhouse-like buildings at the end of our street when I was growing up and people voted in them. I remember getting inside one a few days before the voting began. My parents had us passing out flyers for John F. Kennedy that year.
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