Elections

You know, I really love absentee voting. It is so easy! And I can quickly get the voting over with, or, if I want, I can carry it around with me for weeks thinking about the issues, finding out more information, and vote when I'm ready. For the November election I carried the thing around with me until the very last minute-- turning it in at my poll-- because I needed to research and think and consider and with my absentee ballot in my bag I was able to carry around all the details with me wherever I was in town, take them out during dinners or busrides or coffeebreaks and think about and ponder and decide. For the December runoff election, I got the ballot in the mail, got a pen, made my marks, put the ballot in the envelope and took it to the mailbox in about 10 minutes flat. So easy. We should encourage absentee voting more and more-- it just makes voting more fun and simple.