Ugh that sounds so stressful! I'm glad they 'let' you vote though. You'd think after the "Hanging Chads Debacle" they would test and re-test every aspect of the voting process these days. (I noticed at my polling place that a couple of guys ahead of me had issues when they scanned their driver's license bar codes. When that happened, they gave them papers to fill out and sent them to another table...they sat down & filled them out -- they seemed rather extensive -- then handed them to the voting official at this side table who took them back to the scanning table did ~something~ with them and then got them their little slip of paper to vote.)
About the privacy thing...we have the electronic machines only (so far as I know -- they never mentioned the option of paper ballots) but at every previous election, the machines have been lined up so that the front of the machines were pointing toward the center of the room and your back was to the wall to give you privacy. This time, they were turned so that you stood with your back to the center of the room and, in theory, anyone could've walked up behind you and looked over your shoulder...I mean, there were polling officials who I'm sure would've stopped that from happening but still. It just struck me as odd.
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Date: 2016-11-08 07:51 pm (UTC)About the privacy thing...we have the electronic machines only (so far as I know -- they never mentioned the option of paper ballots) but at every previous election, the machines have been lined up so that the front of the machines were pointing toward the center of the room and your back was to the wall to give you privacy. This time, they were turned so that you stood with your back to the center of the room and, in theory, anyone could've walked up behind you and looked over your shoulder...I mean, there were polling officials who I'm sure would've stopped that from happening but still. It just struck me as odd.