Just voted early.
Feeling pretty happy that although I was directed to several false locations, had to wait behind 35 non-english speaking individuals, had a sleeping baby laying on top of me and was holding A's french fries and my 13 lb purse in my voting pen hand - I did it. And we live in a country where I can - my looks, my gender, my mental status :) cannot keep me from selecting whomever I so choose.
I am excited about this election and encourage procrastinators like me to get in the absentee vote window - let's go people!
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good for you! there are lots of reasons not to vote (13 lb. purses are one of them, sleeping children another) but so many more reasons TO vote. the biggest: we CAN.
RON PAUUUUUAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!
Actually, Levi wrote in RUE Paul!
I impatiently await the arrival of my ballot in the mail. Yeah, we are a "vote-in-your-underwear" state. Pops into the mailbox, I retrieve it and walk, scratching my belly, back to where m'special votin' pen stands ready to slay the evil-doers. Usually blast a little Blue Oyster Cult while I smudge the bad juju out of the house with some wild reservation sage. Line up and pop a dozen PBR's and gun 'em while I make my delicate indication of my preference in public servants.
Wish there were some public savants on the ballot!
Amerka th' Great! Rruuuuurrrrpp!!
Voting has never been the lengthly process that it was this year. First, there was the "signing up" in Valpo to vote somewhere other than in the church down the street. Okay, that was half an hour to fill out the forms and prove we were who we said we were. Then we download and print the ballot - a few minutes at most. It was scanning the ballot on a scanner & computer I've never used before that required two Dummy Books and two hours of diligent key tapping that about did me in. But it's our privilege and the American way, no?
My question: Why were you absentee voting, Sweets?
I got an Absentee Ballot in the mail, but I didn't know that nayone could just go and vote NOW! Dang it. I plan to go and vote on Election Day though.
Wisconsin allows you to vote absentee early. Even if you aren't going to be absentee.
Washington state mails ballots to everyone. We don't even have voting booths anymore! I'm still waiting for very close to election day though just in case something comes up. I miss getting my "I voted" sticker though :)
Annette
The ballots are here! The ballots are here!
(I get to vote seveteen times ... shhhhh!)
And I'm voting a straight "Good Spelling" ticket!
We've got the "vote in person" option, which only requires a state ID... no excuses for why you want to vote early. Or you could send for a ballot to be mailed to your house (or personally hand-delivered if you're disabled), but you have to give a reason why.
OR you could follow the Lake County method, get a few absentee ballots with the names of your goldfish, dead Aunt Martha, and various Disney characters, and go to town!
Personally, I chose the "I might be in labor on election day, so send a ballot to my house please" option and voted a few weeks ago.
Dropping off our votes today. I did it! I spelled all the dots wright!
mmm...reservation sage...
B
Reservation sage invokes soul juju.
Tomorrow's the big day. I'd like to say, in the spirit of junior soccer everywhere, that we'll all be winners when the count is in. But we won't, will we? Or will we? My money says we all win if OB gets a shot at righting the listing ship. My ducats also say that, if Mickey C wins, (or has it stolen for him) we all lose. One man's opinion, and that's not just the Goldschlager talkin'!
Let's get on the hope bandwagon. Really, it does take a village. Do your best work close in. If we shine up our tidy, nearby worlds, maybe they will connect, and the beautiful virus will spread.
OK, some of this IS the Goldschlager. But I'm pretty sure I'll feel the same way tomorrow. Love doesn't weaken in the light of a new day. Let your light shine.
Yep, feel the same.
Still feel the same.
Well, a little giddy, too.
I walked about 50 yards to the courthouse. Didn't have to show any ID, consoled a client on the loss of her beloved wire hair terrior while recieving my ballot, and had my child held and amused by someone I knew at the registration table while I voted. Things to love about Meeteetse! Why vote at home?
Earth to Bethany - we are awaiting a new post....
Would somebody hold a mirror under Bethany's nose and see if she's still breathing?
New POST ... NEW POST....NEW POST...
Hmmmm, she must be a secret superhero, busily fighting crime in snow-torn Wisconsin.
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