Go Vote!

Today is Election Day and let me make one recommendation: check the sample ballot if you get a chance before you vote. Lana and I looked it over and we were prepared when we got to the poll today. I walked up, made my selections, got my sticker, and left. There were some fine American voters who had been voting for several minutes before me and were still going after I was done! Lesson: don't let voting catch you off guard, the sample ballot is out there for your viewing pleasure. Voting is a great privilege, but let's not make it an all day event folks.

Jackson did great! He was working the room, as usual, waving and smiling and just being generally cute. No matter where we go, I think he truly believes that everyone came to see him. Today, you would have thought he was campaigning! He even got a sticker.

Another thing I noticed was that the average poll worker was...how shall I say this so as not to offend anyone...of the senior cititzen demographic. No offense, really, I love old people, in fact I aspire to be an old person some day. But most of the senior citizens I know don't really care about or keep up with the latest in technological advances, voting machines included. Granted they are fairly simple to operate, stick the card in, touch the name of the person you want to vote for and touch submit ballot at the bottom, but as we all know with anything electronic or automated, there is so much that can go wrong. I guess it's like a lot of things in life, a leap of faith. We have faith in the people we vote for, we have faith in the process used to elect those people, and I guess we must have faith (and patience) in those who volunteer to facilitate this most sacred right granted to us as citizens of the United States.

If you haven't already....GO VOTE!