Just to highlight how dumb our township election systems are...

I asked the poll worker if they were busy today. They told me no, not really, that I was only the 40-ish person that was in today. (5:00 after work)

I never actually heard about this election, I just so happen to drive by my polling station every day.

Fill in my ballot, go to hand it to the poll worker at the end of the line, and she says " no you have to put it in the machine"

Naturally this upsets me. Mind you, there are 7 poll workers/watchers or whomever in there. So I ask the obvious question, " why do you need a machine to count votes? Seems like a pretty easy task."

The response, with a chuckle - "well thats how we've always done it, but we double check the count when its over."

SO WHY DO YOU NEED A MACHINE TO COUNT TO 40!!*!

Sorry for the rant, it was just stupid on steroids.