Texas

retired. He had to have been a Republican to keep his job in this county, but he seems to have been one of those old-school competent Republicans. The machines we were using was touch-screen, but it printed a paper ballot that you could review before dropping it in the final bin. I’m OK with that.

The new appointee took us back to paper with circles that needed to be filled in by hand. Not only that, these ballots are custom printed at a big machine when you check in—because people from any precinct can vote at any location.

I went during early voting and even though there were only a couple other voters in the room, I still had to stand and wait a bit for my ballot to print. “Gosh,” I thought, “how is that going to work for a big election?”

I did not have to wait long to find out. Even though this was a low turnout election since the only thing on the ballot in this county were constitutional amendments, Election Day was a clusterf**k here, with people standing in long lines coming out the door because of the wait for ballots to get printed.

Honestly.