Why I did not vote

Nov 12, 2014

I tried to vote the weekend before the 27th but I lost the paper with my PIN # on it. So I called the township on the 27th. They said I had to come in. I could not go (it was a PA day for the schools and I had a full day of activity preplanned for my children and was away from home). So, I could not vote.

I realize that I lost my PIN #. I realize that I could have stopped the children’s activity and taken my family to Sharbot Lake instead. Could they not have looked up my PIN # for me? But that’s not really my point. Voting is supposed to be easy, convenient and accessible, isn’t it?

I may not have written this letter but I hear that there was a list posted on the Internet stating who voted and who did not (hearsay only as I do not have Internet). And that brings me to another point. Did anyone study the potential biases in listing this information?

I received a phone call from one of the candidates on the evening of the 25th to remind me that I had not voted and when I did, to keep them in mind. Is that the way the electoral process is meant to function? Is it not biased? I cannot say that I support these “technological improvements” to a system that has functioned reliably in the past. I always vote. But not this time.

Dawn Morden