Ballot Stuffing? hmmm

god damn it everything i typed disappeared when i clicked publish post and it went to the no internet conctivity page and now i have to do it again. grrrrr.

SO today I went to vote. I woke up ass early so I wouldnt have to wait in horrendous lines all day. But ofcourse, the person who was supposed to open the polling place had not gotten the memo and was not there to open up the building on time for the pollster people to set up. Luckily they did most of the complicated setting up the night before (thank god for foresight), and the wait was not as long as expected.

Just like last time I voted, they did not ID me. They just asked me for my name and crossed it off the list. Personally, I think they SHOULD ask for some kind of photo ID. Why dont they do this? Anyone? Anyone?

Then the nice poll lady gave me the brown ballot protector-slider-thingie and my ballot and off I went to make history. I started to eenie meanie miney moe my way down the list when i looked at the brown ballot protector-slider-thingie and saw that there was a piece of paper stuck inside it. The edge of the paper just peaked out, one corner . The paper was kind of folded in a diagonal fan crease. I pulled it out to see if it was a ballot and it was.

The worst part was it was a vote for Lizama. IT TOOK EVERY OUNCE OF INTEGRITY I HAD TO DO THE RIGH THING. All I wanted to do was crumple that ballot in a ball and burn it. I wanted to slide it into my news paper and no one would ever know. I mean why give him one more vote to ruin the CNMI. He is a loose cannon with no ethics and inegrity.
I couldn't sink to his level. So with all the will I had, I went to the lady and showed her my brown ballot protector-slider-thingie with the ballot inside it still. She looked at me funny and I was like, hey man this is your job to be checking these things.

I felt like God was watching me.

But now that I think about it more, I was the 18th person to vote... so why were they recycling the brown ballot protector-slider-thingies already. When I went to show the lady by the counter, she had a huge pile of empties sitting there... Now I wonder if there is any impropriety going on. I guess we will find out tonight. If lizama wins I think the others should protest.

What Tom Arkle wrote in the paper makes sense though...We will probably have to have a run off after all...