Not even Hanlon's Razor covers this one

[thatcrazycajun]

Regular readers will recall I missed out on voting last week due to my polling place not being open when I got there. I finally called the county office for the Secretary of State after getting no response to a phone message left at the center where the polling place was to be.

Turns out my polling place had not even been opened at all that day, as there were no city-, county- or statewide races on the ballot this time. Only select areas of town had elections on 11/5, for mayors of their sub-principalities (like the College Park and Doraville areas, which are legally cities unto themselves within neighboring DeKalb County, even though they are considered part of Atlanta for general discussion purposes), city councillors and such. So I couldn't have voted even had I got there earlier.

No malice, or even stupidity, just the vagaries of an off-year election. Ah, well, at least I know there's been no glitch in the system and I did in fact have the correct address. And I've been assured that I will be able to vote when my precinct is open for next year's November and other special elections, when more all-area races will be run.

Comments

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about the "no stupidity", if it wasn't made clear in the PR that not every part of the area HAD elections in-contest this time around.

SOMEBODY stopped a signal.

????

[a-phoenix-afire.livejournal.com]

So who were you going to vote for?

Re: ????

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Would have depended on the race or ballot question and how much I knew about it; I try to stay informed about upcoming elections, candidates and propositions and vote accordingly.