voting update

[marcicat]

Town voting is next week around here, and we've already received a postcard exhorting us to VOTE YES ON ARTICLE 3 TO SUPPORT TEACHERS!

So I figured I should probably go figure out what the articles are, and then go vote to support teachers. Except that when I checked the town website (thanks for the handy email, town!), article 3 is actually about road improvements. (Also good!)

WHICH MEANS that probably the teacher-supporting article 3 is on the school ballot. That one is very mysterious to me, and also apparently the town, since there's no handy link to it anywhere that I've found.

But there's still time! And I guess there's always 'just read the articles when you get there,' but that seems inefficient when I could do it on company time reduce stress by being prepared. Also those little voting booths are so awkward and they make me nervous if I think about them too long, so I generally try to minimize my time there as much as possible.

Comments

[lannamichaels]

Good luck with this! I've always found tiny local elections to be the worst in terms of getting info on what's going on; my go-to is the league of women voters but often they have nothing on it. Last school board election, I ended up watching 45 minutes out of a 1.5 hour town hall with the school board candidates to decide who I was voting for because that was essentially the only info out there. One small race on it, with 3 candidates for 2 places, I could not find out anything about one of the candidates at all except her being quoted in a newspaper about something unrelated years ago. I figured if I couldn't find anything out (even a facebook page, which the other two had) then she wasn't really running in the first place.

In terms of specific ballot questions I definitely want to read those beforehand because sometimes they're worded in a way that you need to vote the opposite of the way you think you do.

[lannamichaels]

Oh and also the greatest part of watching that town hall was that one candidate's platform -- and I am not kidding -- was that there wasn't enough football in high school. That's it. That was his platform. He wanted more football teams. Every other problem that goes on at large public high schools? Pah. Meaningless. More football, please.