oh, work

[marcicat]

Yesterday I sent an email to a person at work -- I had to take a guess at who might be able to answer my question, since the company no longer has an HR department. Anyway, I was all polite and stuff, and requested to know the company's plan for the overlap between the mandatory 'all employees must be present for this Very Important Work Event' day and the state's primary voting day.

It was a short email, but I did include a couple sentences regarding the challenge of travel time and the event schedule compared to the time available for voting.

The reply I received included a suggestion that perhaps I could simply vote in the town where the event is being held.

Now, I'm not entirely sure where the person I emailed lives, or even what their job is in the company (the upper echelons of the company are far removed from my little "individual contributor" role). So maybe they did not know that you can't actually do that! On the other hand, one might like to think that one's employer would check the relevant laws before replying to questions!

In conclusion: 'recommending voter fraud' was not a square I expected to be able to check on my workplace bingo card this year, but I guess you never know! The future truly is a mystery!

Comments

[marcicat]

Short answer is yes! Individual states have a lot of wiggle room to make their own rules, but in my state, you register to vote in the town you reside in. Proof of residence is required to register, and then when you show up to vote, they check your name off on the voter rolls.

(I've only ever lived in towns small enough to have one polling place for the whole town, and the voter rolls are literally printed sheets of paper that the volunteers mark up with a pen.)

(Anyway, the point of voting in your town of residence is to make sure you are voting in the races that will actually impact you. Even our little state has multiple congressional districts, and then the state government has all sorts of other districts and counties and wards. Gotta get the correct ballot for your town!)

[china_shop]

*nodnod* Thanks for explaining. Your system is more complicated than ours by an order of magnitude, for sure.

Good luck sorting it out. ♥