Well, it looks like the lessons of Florida were well taken. On June 3, I went to my polling place to vote on proposition S. I intended to vote “no.” I do not live in Malibu, but live in the county and have a Malibu mailing address. We always vote at the fire station at the top of Las Flores Canyon. When I got there, I found no polling place. I looked around and went inside the fire station but couldn’t find anybody on duty to ask what was going on. I went home and called the Malibu school district to see if they could give me some information. I was told that I was probably not in the district but I could check on the internet with the registrar’s office to see where I was registered to vote. To make a long story short, I wound up not voting, assuming that county residents were not covered by the proposition.
I have just learned from my neighbor that the voting station was at Duke’s on PCH. Why would the polling place be moved after 30 years for one election? Why wasn’t there a sign at the fire station saying to where the polling place had been moved? The whole thing smells. I suppose I am going to be forced to support the kakistocracy that calls itself the Malibu-Santa Monica School District until I can op-out. Why do I feel that when that time comes, I will run into more chicanery?
Howard Ziehm