Wednesday, July 29, 2009
CAVED IN
I officially applied for inclusion on the Permanent Vote-by-Mail Voter List today.
I have resisted this for a long time. Even while it seemed that I was the only one to be at the polls on election day.
Somehow it seemed important to pull the lever or mark the X or touch the screen in person.
It used to be a social time. I would see my neighbors. This actually was the case in November with Obamamania about. One neighbor, actually.
Since then there has been another state election and, it turns out, they combined precincts or eliminated some or something. I had to go to a new place. A motel conference room. Hard to find and cramped. No one else was there except the officials.
I get it. This is not the wave of the future, it is the future.
I can see how it improves the turnout. It also spells the end of last minute campaigning. The suspense. But I guess that is OK.
I worry that they will fuck this up somehow and at the next election I won't get an ballot by mail and when I go to the poll they won't have me down.
I guess i will just have to let go and allow the process to run the way that it runs.
