Navigator
I finally got another CDTA Navigator Card after a few months of using the app and having it expired. Tap and go, most of the time I don’t even pull it out of my wallet.
The Navigator app is fine as a back up, but it kind of sucks having to open an app, click through it, and sometimes your phone battery is dead, have connection issues, or get logged out of the app. Or if the sun is bright and screen is dim, the machine has trouble reading the QR code.
Plus you kind of want to have the app open, fare ready, when bus arrives, and I don’t necessary love at all times puling your phone out and messing it with bums around potentially looking to swipe the phone out of your hands. All while balancing and loading the bike on the bus.
Provisional ballots | MIT Election Lab
Since the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) became law in 2002, all states have been required to use provisional ballots. The only exception is states that offered same-day registration when the National Voter Registration Act was enacted in 1993, and even most of these states have found them useful in certain situations.
In its most basic form, a provisional ballot works like this: A voter whose name doesn’t appear on the voter registration list at a precinct polling place on Election Day—but who believes she or he is, in fact, registered—may be offered a provisional ballot. After being marked, it's placed in a special secrecy envelope rather than in the ballot box. After the polls close, the registration status of the voter is determined. If the voter was in fact registered in that precinct on Election Day, the ballot is removed from the secrecy envelope and counted just like any other ballot. If the voter wasn’t registered, the ballot remains in the secrecy envelope and is not counted.