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I almost voted for myself as a write in candidate for all the offices where a Democrat is running uncontested but I didn’t want to make more work for those poor election volunteers.

I got a little frustrated with one of the election volunteers. She asked us what street we lived on (because the voter rolls are organized by street name, then street number). We responded “Somerville Ave.” Then she proceeds to go look under “S-U…” I gave her a few seconds for her to try to realize her mistake, but she kept flipping back and forth through those pages around “S-U..” I had to speak up and say “Umm… it’s S - O - M…, not S - U..” I don’t know if she didn’t hear me or just ignored me but she responded “but U comes after T!” To which I replied “it’s spelled S - O - M… just like the name of the city we LIVE in.” It’s one thing for someone outside of the Boston metro area to make that mistake, but for an election volunteer in a city to NOT know how to spell the name of their own city???