Voting in person in California
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 2:31 PM
Mail-in ballots have been sent throughout the state and voting by mail has started a week or two ago.
I live in San Diego and have a preference to vote in person. On the day that ballots arrived, a little more than a week ago, in-person voting opened up at the registrar of voters office.
I was ready to go do this today and, at the last minute, I wanted to go online and see the exact location address so I did a google search for the office. The google search came up with a lot of links about the office but none of them had the office. Even when I clicked the Maps link in google, it came out not found. The only address information came back as PO Boxes.
Luckily, I had my sample ballot and saw an address and typed that into google. This time I was was able to see the location on Google maps and the little marker on the map for the registrar of voters.
On my way to vote, there were several "checkpoints" stopping cars to take their mail-in ballot. I wanted to vote like I had all my life in person in a booth. I hesitated at the first "checkpoint" and then drove by the others that were in the last couple of blocks at the location.
Once I found the "vote here" sign, I had to make another 3 stops to get my presence to vote recorded, an electronic card for the voting machine and an envelope with a printed label identifying me as the voter to insert my printed ballot.
It seems that the whole experience was set up to discourage in-person voting and tricking the average voter to succumb to a mail-in vote.
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