“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.” — John F. Kennedy
In other cities, folks vote early to save time at the polls. Brian and I have to vote early this election because of our upcoming trip to Chicago, so we ventured downtown to take care of it this morning. Poor D.C. There was a huge line with tons of people, and we were told the wait was about an hour and a half. Brian had to leave to meet some friends for a prearranged lunch, but I decided to stick it out.
In reality, it took about an hour and 50 minutes, and we (I mean, all the other voters and I) were herded from hallway to room, chair to chair, one line to the next, in a display of cheerful inefficiency that I know can happen in any municipal office… but I like to think there’s nothing quite as special as a D.C. government operation. We were some committed voters, though; no one (well, except Brian) gave up and left. Voting is important! (And Brian returned after lunch, by the way. He thinks for him it only took about an hour and 20 minutes.)
Anyway, after I cast my digital ballot on one of the two (!) electronic voting machines (hello?! Where are my tax dollars going??), I headed down to the Metro, where I had to wait 14 minutes for a train to take me back to the Woodley Park station (where, by the way, the elevator had just broken — again) and my apartment, the former balcony of which is now apparently being used as some kind of masonry center for the construction crew. Awesome!
But seriously, I would have done all that and more if necessary in order to vote, even though I know D.C. will go for Obama, like, 99.9%.
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