Voting

So... if you know me, you know that voting is very important to me.  Today is the primary in California, so naturally I began doing research weeks ago and was very excited to get to the polls when they opened at 7 AM so I could proudly display my "I Voted" sticker all day long.

We arrived at 7 AM, along with the poll worker (that's right "the" as in "only one").  He began setting up the booths and trying to find the roster and punchers and all the materials while we read the learning materials on the walls of the elementary school classroom.  It's remarkable any of those kids learn to read.  He decides to start letting us vote without being set up, so he looks for us on the roster- which took way longer than it should have.  Then he gives us the wrong party ballot with no poker.  Same story with the other voters who had arrived.  While we are voting on a school desk (booths with privacy shields had not been set up), he is trying to put everything together.  When we finish we hand him our completed ballots and he tosses it on a table because the ballot box hasn't been set up.  Then he says "trust me, it will get in the right place".  I'm thinking, "Yeah, this guy's earned my trust, he seems responsible".  I hope he finally got things together and all the completed ballots wound up in the right place.  I didn't get to wear a sticker because he couldn't find them- so I made my own.  Now that I think about it- was that guy a real poll worker?