I voted today.
I received my registration card in the mail many weeks prior. And weeks prior, still today, there is encouragement on billboards, on television, radio, on the internet, to VOTE. Today I went to the basement of the local Catholic Church. People going in and out, no big lineup.
Downstairs an electoral officer read my card, showed me the line I was supposed to be in. 5 people ahead of me. This wasn't going to take long.
Got to my poll, showed them my card and my provincial ID card. They crossed my name off the list and handed me the ballot, showed me to the cardboard booth.
Pencil. Paper Ballot. Paper voter list. No Diebold technology whatsoever. I didn't even see a laptop.
I placed my X on the ballot, came back to the poll table. Another electoral officer checked the number on the ballot with the stub it came from. She asked me to place it in the ballot box and watched me put it in. I was done. I left.
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