I tried to vote today, but the pens had no ink!

[Billy Burnett]

I live in Miami, so what do ya think?

One of five computers really did work,
And the lone "expert" there wore a big smirk.

+ + +

Here

[glowing]

1. Are you serious? BTW, I'm bringing my own pen.. I'll make sure it works.

[Billy Burnett]

4. Special pens, wouldn't ya know.

The reason? They cost serious dough.

[1corona4u]

8. You don't need a 'special pen'....a #2 pencil is fine.

Black pen is fine. Any black pen. Take a sharpie with you next time.

[Billy Burnett]

11. Not what they said. It required "special pens" supplied by the Optical scan company.

Wasn't going to argue. No one could vote. ALL of the "special" pens originally placed there had no ink. It was a long line. I'll go back tomorrow.

[ddeclue]

15. Standard black ink pen is fine.

NO PENCILS THOUGH - don't want your vote erased do you?

[Billy Burnett]

18. Not according to the poll worker.

Special pens were required. No one was allowed to vote using another type of pen.

Are you getting the picture?

[ddeclue]

19. Assuming they use the same machines as Orange County

he is full of crap.. I know our SOE personally and they use REGULAR pens, nothing special about it.

[Clio the Leo]

7. That's actually a good idea ..... keep it as a momento.

Wish I had thought to order an Obama pen in time.

[Historic NY]

2. ask for a pencil and coal shovel..ala Lincoln

[napi21]

3. You need to go to bed now. It's late, and you're obviously tired. n/t

[Billy Burnett]

6. And ticked off too.

I couldn't vote today, you'd be ticked too.

[napi21]

9. Be ticked off if you want. If you didn't have the sense to ask the people running the poll

for a different pen, or maybe something really easy like having your OWN PEN, then YOU are the one who failed.

[Billy Burnett]

10. I waited 90 minutes for them to get the "special" pens.

It was an optical scan system that had to have "special ink" in order to read votes "without any errors".

[madmax]

12. Read OP # 11

no one voted.

[dbonds]

5. I must be getting tired, misread that as the 'penis had no ink' - completely different meaning.

[stillcool]

13. what kind of ballot is this?

I've never heard of such a thing. I know it's Florida and all, but this is ridiculous...oops..I forgot what country I'm in.,

[Billy Burnett]

14. Miami, Florida. Early voting started up today.

F*cking banana republic.

[stillcool]

21. now that I think about it

.. the pens that are in the booth that I use to connect the dots are not ordinary pens either. They're like a sharpie but not thick and not thin. I've never heard of the pen protocol before though. I feel for you.

[backscatter712]

16. Contact your local Obama HQ.

Wipe that insufferable smirk off his face.

Seriously. Contact your local Obama office, and see if you can get some Election Protection people in action.

[Billy Burnett]

17. It was all over the local news.

All of the local TV and radio news reported on that incident.

No working "special" pens. Wow! Wadoyaknow. A 2½ hour wait to get them.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

[crankychatter]

20. 1849 - "Made pencils" H.D. Thoreau

"The more he bragged of his honesty, the faster we counted our spoons."

H.D.T.