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Just Voting in the Rain.

By Norm Seeley | March 9, 2010

There was a Municipal Election today in Scottsdale, citizens were to vote on changes in the city charter and should there be an increase the “Transient Lodging Tax, from 3 to 5 percent.

When we got to the school, or normal poling place, it was raining hard, and we could see no signs saying that it was where we were to vote. There was one sign supporting the Proposition that would increase the “TLTax” but that was it.

We drove into the parking lot, saw a few cars but nothing more. The gates in the fences that surrounded the school were all closed. And it was hard to see through the red fences to see the normal red voting signs that usually are there.

Now, the school itself was close, no school, so we thought that because of that the voting was being held at another location. We went home, got out the Office Ballot and sure enough the school we had gone to was where we were to have voted.

I called the city and a very nice person even called the county, who is in charge of voting to see if it was open. She was told it was, signs were out, and people were voting.

So to make the story short, we went back.

There were not signs.

It was still hard to see that any part of the school was open.

Found a gate and the end of the fence and parked our van illegally to be close enough for Karen to get in without getting wet.

Passed three Ducks who were walking between the fence and the building, and quaking with each step. They apparently were upset too, that they weren’t allowed to vote either.

I opened the door and there inside it was a voting place. We told them that the signs were not out front where they could be seen.

The pictures below are as we left. See if you can make out a sign that makes it clear that this indeed was a place to vote.