A month before election day, the mail-in ballot arrives. This long lead time rightfully suggests that voting will require weeks of research work. If I were in a voting booth, the whole ticket would appear at once with its many pages of candidates, propositions, and measures–as if every citizen is prepared to sort through the lists of unknown judges or candidates for offices that somehow were never clearly explained in my non-existent high school Civics class. Commissioners, Supervisors, and—Equalizers? Terminators? What arcane bureaucratic universe are we in? I know I should know, but I don’t have a grasp on the hierarchy of city officials and posts. I realize I am largely clueless about the structure of my own government beyond the few high offices that get media attention. Labyrinth level number one.
How is it that the fundamental bureaucratic tool of democracy somehow manages to remain largely invisible to our eyes? Thank you for the ways in which you manage to make it suddenly appear in my field of vision, with all its angles, colors, structure, discourses ... I hope UX engineers redesigning government bureaucracy for the screen read this ...
During the pandemic, the state judge ruled that residents of Indiana have a right to vote, not a right to vote by mail. During the pandemic elderly people worked the polls and stood in line here. You need an ailment, not just a pandemic or a desire in order to vote by mail. 10,000 dollars and jail time for violating this. I wish I could vote by mail; especially if there is another pandemic.
How is it that the fundamental bureaucratic tool of democracy somehow manages to remain largely invisible to our eyes? Thank you for the ways in which you manage to make it suddenly appear in my field of vision, with all its angles, colors, structure, discourses ... I hope UX engineers redesigning government bureaucracy for the screen read this ...
During the pandemic, the state judge ruled that residents of Indiana have a right to vote, not a right to vote by mail. During the pandemic elderly people worked the polls and stood in line here. You need an ailment, not just a pandemic or a desire in order to vote by mail. 10,000 dollars and jail time for violating this. I wish I could vote by mail; especially if there is another pandemic.