At 4PM I went to my usual voting place, the auditorium of John Jay High School, on Park Slope’s 7th Avenue, to vote in the primary. First change: the voting is no longer in the auditorium, it’s now in the cafeteria.

Once in the cafeteria, there were no lines and I quickly got a paper ballot from an elderly woman, who found my name in the registry and filled out a little green card with my name and a number.

She directed me to a standing desk where I filled out the ballot, which looked like a standardized test. The type was small but still it was easy to read and easy to fill in the little bubbles.

I then went over to the scanner and a man explained to me how to use it. It was like feeding a piece of paper into a fax machine. It takes about 20 seconds for the ballot to scan and I watched the screen while I waited. When it was done an American flag appeared on the screen.

Voila. My first electronic vote was counted.

Done.