They can't stop me from Voting

So today was election day in Toronto. I didn't even know if I wanted to vote, but  I knew it was my duty, so after work I went to exercise this right. I didn't expect the battle I was going to endure.

As in past elections, federal, provincial and municipal they have a voters booth set up in my condo. So when I got home I went downstairs with my ID to vote. Well the man at the booth said there was an error and the building I live in was split in half by mistake and I would have to go to another polling booth 1/2 hour away, even if my address was the same as the polling both I was standing in.

Well that is outrageous. When I starting to disagree with him, he said that is how it is. Too bad for me. As a tax payer and resident of this city, that was not the answer I wanted to hear. You want me to walk to another polling station 30 minutes away? My family didn't come to Canada before it even was a country so I would have to walk 30 minutes to vote. I will not take this injustice!

I called the City of Toronto Election Office and told how I was being refused my right to vote and will take this to the media!
The 2 people I spoke with on the phone were very nice and told me to demand that I be given a voters card. That they would be sending a supervisor to the polling station to see what was going on.

So I walked 2 whole floors back down to the polling station in my condo, (ok I took the elevator) with my ID in hand again. This time the line up was huge, maybe 10 people. As I approached my turn again I could see the guy wanted to send me away again.

I told him that I spoke with the Election Office and you have to let me vote! I will not leave again.

Then he goes. Thanks for calling, do you own or rent? I own. Public or Catholic? Public. Here is your card, Mark one in each section and then hand it back to me.

That was it! That is all I had to do. I spent 20mins fighting for this?

Then the polls close at 8pm and at 8:06 they declare Rob Ford the winner. It took 6 whole minutes for that.

I tried to watch the disaster that was the CP24 election party coverage. Ben Mulroney & the coke addict from BNL singing. Thank god Dancing with the Stars was on.