LETTER: Voting process was flawed

Editor,

I am writing today in an attempt to regain a little of the dignity that was stolen from me on Tuesday. I am an avid believer in the fact that everyone should vote and thus this past Tuesday was going to be a big day for me. This was going to be my first chance to vote, since I was unable to do so in the previous election.

Imagine my surprise when I arrived at the voter’s table (after waiting for two hours in line) and they didn’t have my name on the list. I was saddened at the thought that I might not get to vote, until they told me that I could go down to the County Clerk’s Office and they would be able to help me.

Upon entering the Clerk’s Office, I was informed that I was not registered to vote and that I would not be able to cast my ballot. They proceeded to tell me that many of the students here at the university had the same problem.

It all happened the last week of September when I registered to vote at a table set up in the TSC. I don’t remember who it was that organized this little table, but whomever it was, they lost my registration card, as I was told in the Clerk’s Office; it appears that they also lost the cards of many other students.

When I realized that it wasn’t even my own fault that I couldn’t vote, I was enraged. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The whole gubernatorial system that our nation is based on was defaced by the senseless actions of some careless individual. I would like to demand that a public apology by made from the organization or individual who caused this injustice.

Ryan Davis