To the Editor:
I almost did not get to vote. There were at least 100 people lined up in the hallway in the Courthouse Annex and the line was moving extremely slowly.
When I finally got to the desk I could see the problem. There were about 20 voting booths open but few were using them.
The line was stalled because there was one solitary lady operating the photo ID checkpoint. There was no way she could handle the thousands of voters going through that day.
What were election officials thinking when they created that bottleneck?
Using vote centers is a great thing, if used property. But each vote center was set up to replace about 10 precincts. So in the old days there would have been one photo ID person for each of the 10 precincts.
How could election officials expect one person to do the job of 10?
Somebody owes all of those people who wasted their time in line a great big apology. May this never, ever happen again.
Warren Hiser
Greenfield
