successful vote- woohoo!

aaron and i voted without too much trouble.

it should be noted that we both remember registering to vote when we applied for our new driver's licenses in march (after we moved into our new house), but when we got to our voting location, they didn't have us registered. so we had to re-register.

other than that everything went very smoothly.

i heard that in some locations where they've introduced all kinds of new voting machines, they had to discard them and go to paper ballot, since the machines were not working well.

for what it's worth, i imagine a lot of the voter problems have to do with just bad process in general- the kind of bad process that just plagues our society in general. of course, i'm also not convinced that there aren't situations where the vote has been compromised by badly intentioned people.

okay, hope you had fun voting. we did (aaron is still running around yelling 'i voted!')