Kalamazoo really doesn't want me to vote
I live in a college town. I live on campus. This year, they decided to move my polling place so far away from where I live that it's ridiculous to even think about voting there. Election officials just shrug it off as nothing wrong. They suggested if I had a problem with it, I should request an absentee ballot.

Here's the choices on the absentee ballot I received yesterday as for why I am requesting one:

1. I am 60 years or older.

2. I expect to be absent from the community in which I am registered for the entire time the polls are open on Election Day.

3. I am physically unable to attend the polls without the assistance of another.

4. I cannot attend the polls because of the tenets of my religion.

5. I have been appointed an election precint inspector in a precinct other than the precinct where I reside.

6. I cannot attend the polls because I am confined to jail awaiting arraignment or trail.


There's no "fill in the blank" or "other" choice. In other words, if I choose one of these choices, because the polling place is on the other side of town, and I can't get there, I am signing a lie under the words "I declare the foregoing statement(s) to be true".

Stumble It!