The Right To Vote

Well, Super Tuesday came and went and my candidate is still in the hunt so I'm happy. Voting was a breeze except for the carefully crafted term limits extension proposition called "Limits on Legislators term in office," here in California. The wording tries everything possible to get you to vote yes. For example, "voting yes limits the time a legislator can serve..." when in actuality it increases the time they can serve to 12 years effective immediately. When 34 legislators are looking to extend their stay you can always count on some trickery. Fortunately voters weren't fooled, although I suspect the margin was closer due to the intended confusion.
It evidently wasn't such smooth sailing for the "decline to state" folks as they are called in California, otherwise known as independents or non-partisans. It seems that many were confused by a complicated procedure that likely led to some unknown number not having their vote counted.
I listened to the explanations from all the bureaucrats in charge and it was clear that they consider this all part of doing business and probably will do nothing to fix the problem. It's not often you get to hear the "steady drone of bureaucracy" that came out of this bunch. They wonder why there is such apathy.
You couldn't help but hear about how many more people voted in this primary compared to the last, although as I see it, only about 24 million people voted out of 22 states. By my calculations the population of the Super Tuesday states is approximately 95 million of which about 68 million are of voting age. So one third turned out to vote. I'd think that this alone would be enough to make voting officials do whatever possible to clear up any confusion about the process.