So we went to vote. They had combined a bunch of districts and made them all vote at the BYU Conference Center, which was PACKED! We waited for over an hour to cast our ballots -- it was very poorly organized. Well anyway, I wanted my vote to count, which it generally does not in Utah. I knew Mitt would win here and collect all the Republican delegates. Obama is predicted to win here, but the Democratic primary in Utah is not winner-take-all and I want Mrs. Clinton to get as few Utah delegates as possible. Consequently, I wanted to be able to vote for Obama. That would make my vote count.
The problem was that we switched from "unaffiliated" to Republican in the last primaries so that we could vote against Chris Cannon. We assumed that we were now registered as Republicans but hadn't had the foresight to change back to unaffiliated before these primaries. When we finally reached the place where they check names, we discovered that we are (for whatever reason) still unaffiliated and could choose a Democratic ballot, which we did!
It was tricky business, but our vote counted.
OXO
D.
3 comments:
Hooray for votes counting!
Yay for you! I am still way miffed that I had to vote republican. Me vote republican. It was hard but Guiliani got my vote in the end. Sheesh.
Good for you all. I'm wondering if it will even matter by the time NC is up to vote. Maybe we'll find out real soon here!
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