A short recounting of an innocent experience involving voting that shows how those who accept without thinking can panic others with a baseless claim.
At the top of the steps and to the left of the main entrance of the New Bedford city hall is a white curbside style mailbox into which, instead of mailing them, you can place payments for municipal bills if you are in a hurry or city hall is closed. Its identical twin stands at the opposite end of the block at the corner of two major one-way streets for those who can just drop and drive.
Because of its COVID era hours, City Hall closed at 1:00 p.m. on the day I intended to bring my mail in ballot directly into the office of the Election Commission, no fake drop off boxes or bundling scams on this one. I confess that I did not check the hours it would be open because it was a Tuesday, and I only learned of the shortened hours from a city hall custodian who passed me as I headed toward the steps, so by the time I got there a little after 1:00 p.m., it was too late to go inside.
I had to choose just turning to my right to put my ballot in the USPS curbside blue mailbox or walking up the steps to the white box.
Another man with his ballot envelope in hand approached and, as a lady who had just pulled into one of the fifteen minute free parking spots for City Hall business and was rolling down her window obviously to ask a question or say something, asked that since City Hall was closed, were we supposed to put our ballots in the white box or is it limited to only municipal business.
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“Yeah, they take everything inside, and City Hall stuff goes to an office and the ballots are just tossed aside.”
The man who had approached could not believe the city would so cavalierly toss out his ballot, his voice and all the other voices, and the lady, who was now halfway out of her SUV, was equally incensed.
It was voter suppression. voter fraud. Shame on the city. Typical.
It was raining. The area in front of City Hall, the street that passed it, and the area next to the public library across that street was empty except for the four of us, three and a half if you consider that the lady in the SUV never got more than half way out of it, so before the revelation about voter fraud could ripple through a crowd to be spread all over, the custodian was able to rephrase his answer realizing his own poor choice in the original quick explanation, and even laughed that he could have started a rumor that could have spread like COVID if there were more people around who heard it.
And to be honest, that was a strong possibility had the lady in the SUV angrily retreated back into it before she heard the clarification and driven off in her anger to spread, what was in reality, a false alarm.
In these times, don’t assume something you agree with or agrees with you is true.
This is a time for critical thinking.