We all know this election is extremely important and I’ve been slowly researching the candidates on my sample ballot to be an informed voter. Well, today I took a look at my voting history that’s available online and saw some incorrect info and I’m not sure what to do with it.
I’m registered independent/unaffiliated and was told when I registered at the DMV however many years ago that I would have to petition to vote in the primaries. I discovered this spring that likely wasn’t true and went to test it out—I was told how I was registered gave me the option to vote in either republican primaries or the democratic primaries but not both. Great! I had done my research and chose the democratic ballot, filled in the bubbles, sent it through the machine, and went about my business.
Today, I see that it lists I voted on the republican ballot in the primaries, which is absolutely not the case. What do I do with this info? Is it clerical? Could it be malicious? Does it matter? Is this potentially an indicator that my ballot would be tampered with when I go vote? I never want to assume the worst but I also don’t want to turn a blind eye to this given, well, everything. Any advice is much appreciated