I just got my absentee ballot in the mail. For what? We just had the big recall election and it's over. Oh, right, the real, regularly scheduled election that's in just a few weeks here in San Francisco where we're deciding 'unimportant' things like Mayor, District Attorney, and many initiatives. Who remembers that? I pay attention to these kind of things and I am so overwhelmed by what happened in the recall race that I barely care about the upcoming local election. It's really sad, because these are important issues. But I fear that, even though the state witnessed record turnout for the recall, I fear that the regular elections around the state, including this important local one here in San Francisco on November 4th will produce low turnouts-- low turnout numbers because people are simply tired of elections, overwhelmed by the recall, and the press is totally obsessed with what's happening with the new Governor and his new initiatives and programs and ideas and campaign rhetoric that doesn't match what he actually will do, and so forth. So, I predict record low turnout for November. Sad. Now, I have to go read through my election information and figure out what is going on locally once again.