Popped down the street to my place of voting. Lines were nice and short — for my little chunk of the alphabet anyway. There was another line that was nearly out the back door of the school, but I got right up to the registration desk.
When I got there, they asked if I wanted a paper ballot. Yes, yes and yes! For those who don’t know, those touch screen, paperless voting machines scare the hell out of us programmers, for a variety of reasons that have been well covered elsewhere.
Fill in a couple of bubbles with the provided pen (just a cheap bic) and run it through the scanning machine, and you’re done. No muss, no fuss. And it works if you lose power.
Now, off to spend the rest of the day pretending to work, instead of watching poll results like one of pavlov’s dogs …