Texas Voting

Texas voting is different than California. They do not allow you do an absentee ballot unless you are over 60, in jail, traveling, military or overseas. However, they do offer early voting to help alleviate the polls. I voted on Monday night and it took forever. The line was wrapping around the door and I finally got to the polling area an hour and half later. Once I got up to the front I realized the problem. It was a bunch of older people that were confused as all be on which forms to give to each person. All you are required for early voting is to vote in your county so they had to figure out which ballots to give since people from all over Denton County were voting there. There were times they were arguing which ballot to give or asking people to give back their ballot since it was the wrong one issued! Oh my!!!!! I got to pick between electronic or paper. I picked paper since everyone in the electronic section was taking forever. Another interesting thing is that you can mark a box for straight party ticket. I thought that was a little odd since there was not always your party running for a specific category. It just also seems lazy to me regardless if you are going to vote a straight party. Bob was not able to vote this time around since he forgot to change since voter registration. He is still listed in El Paso since he did not have to change it when he was in the Air Force. Now he cannot cross cancel out my vote! Haha. I am living in Texas not California. Does my vote even count?