In And Out In 20 Minutes

Well, I made it to the polls. There was a line, but not bad. There was a little confusion. They actually had four lines. One for people in town, and then one for people a-g or whatever, one for h-o (again, or whatever) and one for the rest. Once people figured out we were supposed to be starting out in separate lines instead of one master line and then go to the right lady when you get to the front of the line it went a lot quicker.

I thought I was prepared to vote. I had my voting card they sent saying I'm cool. I looked the ballot up on line so I knew what I was going to be voting on. At least I thought I knew what was going to be on the ballot. There were all these local issues I hadn't heard anything about. Should a bunch of judges keep their jobs? Should the ambulance district get a bunch of money for something or other? I don't know. Why should I have any say in who's the coroner? What do I know about dead bodies? Besides what I pick up on CSI?

I did vote, but I forgot to get my sticker. We voted in a new place today. A little conference room beside the new bank in town. There used to be about five or six individual little booths set up in what used to be my band room when I played flute in I think 5th and 6th grade. Now I'm not sure what the room's used for. Some little kid stuff. This time there were about four long tables, with six little plastic voting booths on each with something silly on the side, like "Turbo Vote 2". As if basically a big three-sided cardboard divider is somehow cutting edge. There were a lot more places to vote, but I still saw a couple of people waiting for a seat. The Man just went over by the coffee table and held the ballot up to the window and filled it in like that. He had to end up bent over the coffee table to finish.

So anyway, democracy rules and all that. I'm watching TV, even though it's way too early for them to say anything except 'hey, a lot of people are voting.'