I was disenfranchised when we voted this month.  Let me tell you what happened:

According to all of the materials I got in the mail, voting happens on Tuesday.  The rules, as written, say that I was supposed to show up at my polling place on Tuesday.  I read these rules beforehand, and I understood them.

However, I decided that despite what the rules said, I wanted to vote on Sunday.  I wanted to get an early jump on voting, since I didn't like the schedule that had been established.  I showed up to my polling place on Sunday at about 1:30, and it was closed.  They wouldn't let me vote!  I wanted to vote on Sunday, but they said that I was too early, that I was trying to vote before I was supposed to!  I was disenfranchised!

In fact, there were a whole bunch of people hanging around the polling place, and they all wanted to vote on Sunday too!  We are being discriminated against - we are disenfranchised!  We wrote down all of our preferences on pieces of paper, and we were earnest and passionate about our preferences, but no one counted our votes!  I'm incredibly angry about this.

I have to admit, I knew what the rules were.  I was informed of the rules beforehand.  I was told specifically that if I showed up on Sunday, my vote wouldn't count. 

I want them to now retroactively change the voting rules so that my voice can be heard.


PS.  I hope that this allegory doesn't need to be decoded.