I just returned from voting and I found the lack of privacy to be appalling. Groups of voters were clumped together. Poll workers tried to be helpful but ended up standing over the shoulders of voters. I observed one poll worker actually checking over a ballot to see why the machine wouldn’t accept it. Paper was wasted when machines wouldn’t accept ballots forcing voters to redo their ballots
This is no way to run a secret ballot. I have been voting since 1999. When the system changed to paper ballots, I assumed that the kinks would be worked out quickly. However, it has only gotten worse. Fix the system or return to the old curtained booths. Either way, I never want to see again what I saw today.
Patricia Anna Beh
