On voting

Jay and I always vote by absentee ballot.  And by “always” I mean excluding the times when I (gasp) throw the ballots* in the garbage.

Don’t judge me.  I believe in INFORMED voting.  And sometimes I just don’t have the time nor the energy to be informed. 

This election though… it’s a biggie. (in case you didn’t notice).

So Sunday morning I sat down with my cup of coffee, my voter’s pamphlet, and my ballot.  

Four hours later I had my opinions *almost* figured out.  Except for a couple of issues where I was more confused then when I started.

Like who is this guy BOB BARR and how did he get on the ballot?

And HELLO! did you realize there is a woman running for president?  Yup, it’s true. How is it that the news hasn’t picked this up?  And who is she anyway?  And how is it that I thought there were TWO presidential candidates when in fact there are a whole passel of them?

And did you realize that ANYBODY and yes I mean anybody can run for office?  As long as you’re a US citizen of a certain age and without any major felonies you just sign up and BLAM! you’re on the ballot. That blows my mind. Seriously.  

And COME ON PEOPLE isn’t there ANY OTHER WAY to pay for five million and one excellent initiatives than to raise property taxes?  I think our public officials need to start thinking outside the box.  Like maybe we could start stealing money from other states in the dead of night. Oregon is right there and I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t notice.

Yes, I’m thinking of running office.  I’m fairly convinced I could turn this state around.

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*I learned in the writing of this post that ballot (as in the thing you check off) is spelled with an O-T not an E-T.  

Because if you spell it with an E-T you’re talking about muscular people in tights frolicking around a stage. And, although that’s a whole lot of fun, I don’t think it’s really gonna help our economic future.

 

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