Primary Day in New Jersey

At the eCache house, we are excited each day we vote. Being part of the democratic process is uplifting! Even though only one of the races is contested, it is still good to be part of the process.

We also are keeping Beetle up to speed with her voting record. She has not missed an election in the nearly two years she has been on this planet. Municipal, school, primaries, whatever . . . Beetle votes.

We had a little run in today, however. We were told that the Cumberland County Election Board has banned cameras from voting places. This is just ridiculous. We vote in a local elementary school in their library. Today, as is usually the case, there was not another sole in the joint (At 5:15 PM, we were the 17th and 18th persons voting at this precinct in the Republican primary. There had been but 15 Democrats.). We never want to take a photograph of the ballot itself, although I cannot fathom why someone should be precluded from doing so. We don’t want to take photographs of the folks sitting around chatting. No, I want a photograph of my daughter in front of the polling booth.

Why on Earth should this be a banned activity?

Beetle will learn another civic lesson from this experience; we will write to the election board. If not satisfied, we will write a letter to the local newspaper.

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