19 5 / 2009

They moved my polling place (AGAIN) to a very annoying location on the 200 block of Downey Street. It is missing a cross street between the 100 and 200 blocks, resulting in a seemingly endless uphill trek from Frederick Street (which is already an uphill trek from my house.) Jane Jacobs would frown upon this dearth of frequent streets. There is no quick escape route, no easy access. That said, the polling place is as nice as you’d expect in this idyllic millionaire’s club of a neighborhood I live in. Friendly staff, expeditious process, clean garage, cheery red I VOTED! sticker. I voted NO to all of it; all the short-term thinking and bad ad-hoc policymaking. How will voters ever trust or want to be part of the process when they can’t trust the veracity of anything put before them?

They moved my polling place (AGAIN) to a very annoying location on the 200 block of Downey Street. It is missing a cross street between the 100 and 200 blocks, resulting in a seemingly endless uphill trek from Frederick Street (which is already an uphill trek from my house.) Jane Jacobs would frown upon this dearth of frequent streets. There is no quick escape route, no easy access. That said, the polling place is as nice as you’d expect in this idyllic millionaire’s club of a neighborhood I live in. Friendly staff, expeditious process, clean garage, cheery red I VOTED! sticker.

I voted NO to all of it; all the short-term thinking and bad ad-hoc policymaking. How will voters ever trust or want to be part of the process when they can’t trust the veracity of anything put before them?

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