Voting

As promised, there is a secret option #5: Tell us about your voting experience.  If you blog about voting (you don’t need to disclose your vote.  Talk about your polling place, the overall experience, etc), you can skip one of the three art blog questions.

Well, my voting experience was nothing special, perhaps only a little annoying. I went with one of my friends who drove, and since we both had heard our district had been changed from Woodson to Robinson, we went to Robinson. Of course, when we tried to vote, we weren't on the list and they asked we we hadn't gone to Woodson like we were supposed to. Frustrated, I would have just gone to rugby practice without voting, but my friend believes strongly in her civic duty, so she drove us over to Woodson. I accidentally told the people there that I moved off-campus to Centreville, so I was lucky that I had moved in the last nine months or else they would've tried to send me away again. I decided to go for electronic voting, but when I saw someone having trouble with the machine, I elected for paper ballot instead. Another controversy of the day for me was about who should get my vote. I don't really like government, politics, or "either" party, so it is hard to figure out who to vote for, especially when I am not as informed on the issues as I should be (which was another controversy, haha). My girlfriend was very angry that I was voting based on the little knowledge my friend had given me, and honestly, I do not think that it's the best way to exercise my civic right/duty, but it seemed like (from all the ads, haha?) that voting was a better alternative than not. Also, I explained my decision of who to vote for like my girlfriend would explain it, it is not like I don't have a general idea about the two major parties' stances.