Go vote!

[Erisianmonkey]

I voted in a kilt at my kitchen table a couple weeks ago. Funny, there's no "I Voted" sticker in there - feeling jipped.

I got my ballot and took my time reading everything at home and making up my mind slowly and deliberately. Then Yesterday I met my wife at the drop off point for mail ballots at the clerk's office and we dropped our ballots together. We got stickers!

I voted too! A bit frustrating standing in line waiting for a booth when I saw a woman go in (ours are open) and proceed to take out her Sample Ballot book THEN start reading the Propositions etc. aparrently for the first time! I finally got a booth, voted- I had pre marked my book- and left. She was STILL hogging her booth reading!

Or she could have been like me. I always took my time in a voting booth and took my blue book with me.

On a related note to voting in general, my wife got to vote this election for the first time in almost a decade. Her ex-husband was unbalanced and wouldn't let her. (Long story, no need to get too far into it.) And after she left him she stayed off of the voting rolls because they are public record. This year, she finally had the confidence that he wasn't going to come after her and registered and voted. It was really nice to see her reclaim her power like that.