It’s because of the cut. The Papah is Too Thick.
I heard that over and over this morning as I voted in Somerville. It took 50 minutes from waiting in line, to voting, to sticking the ballot in the machine. For the last 20 minutes of it I had to hear a woman with a shrill voice say repeatedly (to anybody who would listen) that they were having problems with the ballots “because of the cut. The papah is too thick.”
Over and over.
The pitch of her voice was bad enough, the boston accent on the “paper” was worse.
Alas, I did manage to vote…and took TWO “I voted” stickers; one for today, the second one to wear to the election party I’m going to tonight.
This will definitely be an interesting election. I was emailing with a close friend from high school (one of my oldest friends…in terms of friendship duration, not age) and I found it fascinating how different our perceptions of the election were. Here we were…both from the same town, same race, same junior high and high school, same lower-middle class (ish) background…yet we have completely opposing views of the election. In her eyes, there is only one issue in this campaign: national security.
I, on the other hand, barely had that issue in my top 5 (economy, national defecit, supreme court nominations were the top four…not necessarily in that order). National security isn’t something I really worry about since neither candidate wants to decrease airport security or loosen immigration laws. And I’ve always felt safe flying or visiting other countries. Meanwhile, I feel that the four issues I have are the ones that will affect me and my loved ones the most over the next 4 years…or 4 decades (when you take into consideration the impact of new supreme court justice appointees).
Still, my friend and I are both reasonably intelligent, open-minded people. I just love how we can have such vastly different perspective on the election.
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I voted this afternoon, I was in and out in less than 5 minutes.
I was in and out in 5 minutes here too, which was a good thing as I had kiddos with me.