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[the_rck]

Oh, lovely. The absentee ballot applications I printed from the city website (it was a PDF) are completely unreadable in places because of garbage characters covering up key bits of information like the date of the election, where to turn the application in, and all of the instructions for filling out the form. Mostly, it’s empty squares, but there are other garbage characters, too. I can almost read the directions, but the other bits are completely illegible. When I saw the stuff where the election date is supposed to be, I assumed that it was some sort of code, but I kind of doubt that now.

I’m going to see if opening the thing in Chrome makes a difference, but I suspect I’m going to have to call the clerk’s office. I’m not sure we have time for them to mail us the application, us to get it back in, and them to get us the ballots before we leave town on either the 31st or the 1st.

Hm. It looks better in Chrome, but the election date is still garbage characters, just very, very tiny ones this time. The printed copy is legible, but there isn’t an election date or a space where one obviously should be written. I should probably call the clerk’s office anyway to complain that the form can’t be printed via Firefox. It’s not as if I was using something obscure like, say, SeaMonkey.

And our internet is being seriously flaky again. I need to get in to find out our precinct number, and I can’t load the site. I really don’t think michigan.gov is down, so I’m pretty sure it’s our internet connection. (And who knows when I’ll be able to post this bit of venting?)

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Why are things just now working? This happens every time I'm trying to meet a fast arriving deadline.

[the_rck]

I've had to turn to my phone's data plan in order to answer comments. I probably should do something else, but unanswered comments make me itch.

[nucleosides.livejournal.com]

I know these PDF feels.

My computer, for some strange reason, has been having the hardest time with the PDF calendar that I have that tells me when the kids get their disability benefits. I actually have to open it up in a third-party web program to see the calendar before it errors out as it would if I tried to open it on my computer.

[the_rck]

Very frustrating! I emailed the city clerk's office, but I'm not going to hold my breath that they'll fix the problem. Such things generally end up a burden on folks like us.