Sunday, November 23, 2008

Haley Video - Wii Drums and Kisses

New Haley Video of her playing Wii Drums and giving kisses to mommy and Grandma.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

My nightmare voting experience

So this morning on my way to work I try to stop into the polls at 8:30 where I found a line wrapped around the building about 1/2 mile long. I found myself getting back in the car and continuing on to work.

Later at 1:30ish I go back, walk right in, no wait. Older gentleman (late 60's early 70's) asks me for my last name. "Hudson" I replied, "First name" he asks? "Corinne" I reply. Opens a page, as he was slowly reading down the list, I point there I am. Holding my voter registration card ready for when he asks. "Sign here" he says. I sign my name and he hands me a card. The next lady I approach asks me for the card the other man just gave me. I hand it to her, she hands me a ballot. So I walk to my booth just thinking nobody has verified my ID and I am voting how odd.

After I am done voting I take my ballot and folder to the machine. Another old gentleman informs me to slide my ballot in slowly. Enough time for anyone to read my ballot. I slide it in and he said that's it. I ask him, "how do you know that I just submitted my ballot, since nobody has looked at my photo ID?" He brings over a younger woman (20's I think) who is in charge of that polling location. I inform her that nobody has verified who I am since I have walked in the door and I just voted.

She immediately points over to the table where the ID check was supposed to be performed and asks me who I saw. I pointed and immediately she has him come over and blames him. I realize that he is just a nice old man volunteering and he gets upset saying he did check my ID. I informed him "no sir you did not, you asked my last name, I pointed to my name and address and you had me sign a piece of paper" I still have my voter reg card in hand which I pulled out when I walked in, you didn't even check that." I then pull the women in charge, explaining I am not trying to be difficult, but I wanted to make sure that everyone is checked and someone needs to supervise those guys and make sure they do so.

Err...Now I know that Florida really does have an issue with voting.