Voting Day
Yesterday was our primary election day. We just got new voting machines, computers! There was a lot of talk about it ahead of time and there were several places that held instruction sessions to make people feel comfortable about voting with a computerized ballot. I didn't go to any of those sessions. It was really fun to vote using the computer. And the best part of it is that when the polls closed, the people don't have to count the votes and fill out the tally forms and drive them to Erie. In November that's an especially hard task. The November elections have more people to vote for and often there is a fairly close race. Accuracy is very important. It can take a long time to count up all the votes and get the forms filled out correctly. Then the judge of elections for each precinct would have to drive the ballots to Erie, and that's about an hour. In November we often have snow and bad roads and driving to Erie late at night on bad roads is very unpleasant. Now the results get relayed to Erie by way of the computer and there won't be any treacherous driving involved.
The biggest concern that we were voting on was the Library Referendum. We were asked if we wanted to reallocate tax monies to give more funds to the public library. Since our school district has cut the library out of its budget, it was very important to us to have a yes vote on this referendum. We really do need our public library and don't want to see hours or materials or staff cut back. As far as I have been told, without seeing anything official about it, the referendum passed. Yeah!!!
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at 5/18/2006 5:38:43 AM- Mary Lou, one of my friends who stood outside the voting location to ask people to vote yes for the library funding told me that only two people told her NO. One was afraid that it would raise his taxes, but it was just a rearrangment of the funds already collected. The other was a woman who was very adamant but did not explain why she was against it. Our library is very active and thriving but would have suffered a serious setback without this funding.
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Our libraries have gone down hill really bad! It is a real shame that people cant see the importance of reading and having access to books!! I would not know what to do if I could not read!