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[boxofdelights]

Colorado has been mailing every voter a ballot for years, so this election process is not much different than normal for me: walk to the courthouse, drop it in the dropbox. Most of the people I saw on the sidewalk were not wearing masks, but everyone approaching or leaving the dropbox was.

I've never done it this early before: got the ballot on Saturday, dropped it off Monday. There were 21 candidates for President. None of them was Kanye. I did not bother to read up on any of the people on the ballot. This year, I am a party line voter. I did have to read about all the amendments and propositions. I thought Colorado had already joined the pact to obviate the Electoral College, but the pact's opponents got enough signatures to put a veto referendum on the ballot. I had to triple check: a yes vote means agreeing to join the pact. There were also tax shenanigans, gambling, gray wolves, abortion.

Air quality is a bit better, covid-19 infection rate is getting worse fast. There are four black bears raiding gardens and garbage in my neighborhood, but I haven't seen any of them.

Am reading V for Vendetta for Rekindle the Classics book group.

Comments

[lunabee34]

Hugs

Inhope your state joins the pact.

[silveradept]

Yay for having a state that's run sensibly.

V for Vendetta in these times must be an interesting reread.

[lilysea]

I did have to read about all the amendments and propositions. I thought Colorado had already joined the pact to obviate the Electoral College, but the pact's opponents got enough signatures to put a veto referendum on the ballot. I had to triple check: a yes vote means agreeing to join the pact. There were also tax shenanigans, gambling, gray wolves, abortion.

Thank you for doing this important work! ^_^

and thank you for voting! ^_^

Salute to citizen Delight!

[jesse_the_k]

Yikes on those darn referenda. I haven't heard of one, in any state, that didn't require an explainer to decode what a yes or no actually means. If it's important enough to ask the citizenry, why don't the drafters take the time to use plain language?

[brigantine]

Well done, you! \o/

We've got quite a few propositions on our ballot this year, too. It takes a little getting through them.

[bibliofile]

In Wisconsin, a single mark for party-line voting is no longer available on ballots. [eyeroll]

Yay for voting! It should always be so easy for people.

Oooh, I liked V for Vendetta. Very good. Dark though, because peak/nadir 1980s, with Thatcherism etc. It will be interesting to read it during 2020. I think I read it in the oughties, but before I saw the movie. (The movie is not the same.)