When asked if I would like to use a sample voting machine during a demonstration at the Middletown Grange Fair, I informed the atten­dant that I was not wearing my glasses and asked her to show me how the machine works. She talked me through it and when I asked where the paper voting slip was, she suddenly turned into an angry, rude person.

She loudly told me that it would be unconstitutional for there to be a paper proving that my vote had been cast, that she would then know how people before my vote had voted. As this did not make any sense to me, I asked why.  She then told me to stop yelling at her. I was not yelling. When I quietly mentioned that she was the only one yelling, she told me 1 could either use the machine or leave the booth.

I was truly appalled!

We left the booth as we were made to feel uncomfortable. Later, a friend in a wheelchair asked a ques­tion and was not the least bit disre­spectful. Still, we faced security guards who stood behind the woman working this booth.

We are just plain people asking simple questions; the need for force seemed unnecessary. Why can’t we ask questions?

Roseannn Cherasaro

New Hope