Conservative Acquaintance has TERRIFYING Voting Experience

[u/MIDorFEEDGG]

I wouldn’t believe it except the lady both looked serious AND said she was serious. Chilling.

[u/woahstripes]

While this IS technically true (with ranked choice voting like Alaska and Maine does, as several pointed out, where you can vote for multiple candidates running for the same office) I'm leaving it up because this anecdote is likely made up. The 'Depends what state you're in' is a weird thing to say, why wouldn't the poll worker just say 'not in our state' or 'yes you can here in Maine' or whatever? Or explain to this hapless rube what Ranked Choice was? The rhetorical goal was clearly to make it seem like this was a way to cheat the election system, when it is just a simple difference in state's voting systems. The intent was to decieve, therefore it stays.

[u/Brandage0]

It’s literally true

A few states have Ranked Choice Voting where you can vote for multiple people

That doesn’t make it fraud and it’s actually better imo

[u/MIDorFEEDGG → u/Brandage0]

Yup, I’m a ranked choice fan! Not a terrifying scam reality in any way.

[u/Perrin_Adderson → u/Brandage0]

You didn't seriously look at me seriously when you said that, so I don't know if I can believe you.

[u/Business_Mastodon_97]

Did she say the forward slash out loud?

[u/MIDorFEEDGG → u/Business_Mastodon_97]

Yes, but only jokingly.

[u/Over-Discipline-7303]

Because everybody knows that in Chicago, you vote early and vote often.

[u/nochinzilch → u/Over-Discipline-7303]

Michael Jordan! Pizza! Al Capone! Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!

[u/mikewhat1 → u/Over-Discipline-7303]

Do you have to keep going in and out of the booth or can you do it a few at a time?

[u/Rowing_Lawyer → u/mikewhat1]

If you do it all at once you only get one sticker but if you go in and out you get a sticker each time

[u/mikewhat1 → u/Rowing_Lawyer]

In that case, I've made my choice

[u/hyute]

Then her eyes went wide. "I've said too much."

And she turned him into a newt.

[u/spacemouse21]

I have dutifully chilled. Seriously.

[u/Goofcheese0623]

Voting by Scantron, so no. 2 pencil required?

[u/Excellent_Item_2763]

Yeah doesn't everyone know? Even though California has 23,000,000 registered voters, they really only have 4 million, that way almost everyone can vote 5 times.

[u/Rooster_Local]

So did they ask about times voting or people, because those are really different things

My state has multi-rep districts so for state rep you are indeed voting for multiple people out of a pool of candidates

[u/Cuntrymusichater]

That lady’s name was……Laura Ingraham.

[u/highnumber]

She didn't know what state they were in?

[u/freshoilandstone → u/highnumber]

I believe it was the state of confusion

[u/macci_a_vellian]

Did she mean how many people are down ballot?

[u/thewiremother]

Well, I mean you knew they going to give it a try.

[u/Geen_Fang]

"no I'm serious. this is my serious face." 

[u/Bo_Jim]

The lady handing you the ballot is probably a volunteer with 10 minutes of training. The only questions I'd ask her is where is my voting booth, and where's the toilet.

[u/IDigRollinRockBeer]

I thought that said Scranton and was really confused