Re:I live in the precinct mentioned... (Score 1)

i live in a different precinct in san diego county, and had a similar experience.

• they asked me my name, didn't ask for id, and didn't know what to do when i was only on one of their lists, but not the other
• they asked me to sign in in pencil and got snippy when i asked them if they had a pen
• another poll worker asks me my party, also out loud. when i say it at a normal volume, she asks me again, louder. i say it louder. she repeats the party name, scowling, with a look of disgust on her face and a tone of disbelief in her voice.
• the same poll worker who practically growled at me for my party affiliation took a smart card, put it in the machine, did some things on a screen i couldn't see (which made me nervous considering her views on my party...)
• when i brought the smartcard back after voting, the same worker who already didn't like me took it and put it behind the table. at this point, i don't know what they've put on that card - name? address? how i voted? and of course, that's not "the way the system works", but as a voter it felt really sketchy
• same pollworker goes "there now, that wasn't so bad now, was it?", gets really defensive and asks why when i say that the machines are actually creepy, and shoes me out of the church when i start to explain.

fun times, fun times...better than the california recall election though, when they "forgot" to send me absentee ballot...
seriously though, i think that they kindof have a point when they say that the voting machines are to "prevent another problem like in florida"... but the problem that they're referring to isn't the fact that people were disenfranchised, it was that PEOPLE FIGURED OUT what happened, and the lack of accountability with these lovely machines will spare them that embarassment in november.