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Were I grew up, voting consisted of going into the gym down at my old grade school (or the other school across the street), stepping into a booth, setting a bunch of levers, and finally registering them with a satisfying "whirrCHUNK" sound as you pulled back the curtain. I assumed this is how it worked everywhere.

Imagine my surprise when I moved to San Francisco and I found my polling place was some guy's garage down the street, where I made my choices with a magic marker on a card table, with a flimsy three-sided plastic divided provided a minimum of privacy around my ballot, which was then fed like some oversized punchcard into some sort of tabulating machine. It was probably tabulated a lot faster, but i missed the "whirrCHUNK". I think tomorrow it is back to a booth system at town hall.

If you are voting tomorrow, grab a pic of your balloting system, polling place or helpful volunteer so we can compare and contrast voting across the USA, realtime.

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