My mistake, sorry
February 5th, 2008, 9:56 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Aaron
Sorry Democrats vying for my vote in California. I screwed up.
When I registered to vote in California, I decided to check the “decline to state” box hoping it would shield me from partisan pigeon-holing and attacks on my objectivity as a reporter.
So today, when I went to vote, I went as a non-partisan, decline to state voter, and like many Californians, didn’t vote for any candidates when I could have.
Declined to state voters were supposed to be able to vote for Democrat or American Independent Party candidates in Tuesday’s primary. But when I got my ballot, there were no names, just propositions. I asked a poll worker if I had the right one, and I did, the poll worker thought.
I trusted the poll worker and voted. Come to find out later, poll workers across California were ill-trained and mis-informed about how to deal with voters like me.
But Hillary and Barack, don’t get all bent out of shape over this one. I was going to vote for Edwards anyway!
Aaron Aupperlee | City Editor
