We voted today!
 

MrsWD and I moved last winter and we are voting in our new environment for the first time. I'm having my foot operated on tomorrow, so we voted today in case I die from over pampering before next week.
What a difference.
In our old county there were always lines and they rammed you through the process like cattle on the way to slaughter. The idea of two people voting together was unheard of. Electronic voting machines and all matter of claptrap.
Here, there was no line. We walked in, did the id thing, and two ladies gave us our ballots. We only had one cheat sheet between us so I asked if we could vote together. "Sure, no problem." They sent us to a table with some pens on in and we sat there and filled out the ballots. I have no idea why, but MrsWD gets incredibly nervous about voting and was freaking out. I had to tell her she's not on trial, just choosing the frikkin' school board for pete's sake. She messed up a ballot, started to cry, and they brought us another one, no problem. When we were finished we dropped the ballots into an honest to god galvanized metal ballot box, like in some third world country or a quiet rural American town.
We needed the cheat sheet because we are new to the area and don't know the political landscape. The county prosecutor lives down the road, so we invited her over for coffee and asked her to give us the lowdown on the local scum, so we didn't vote for a major crook.
The experience was like an Andrew Wyeth painting - pure Americana - beautiful in its simplicity. I am so proud to be an American.

Favorite painting.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1540856986.jpg

Voted on the kitchen table last evening. Wife and eldest child at the same time. We discussed and researched items together.

It was fun family / civic duty bonding.

Great painting. That woman needs to eat. We mailed in our filled-out ballots this morning. Two years to wait until we do it again.

Favorite Wyeth painting

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1540860318.jpg

Thanks to mail in ballots, voting naked in Oregon is a thing!

Christina Olson, the woman in Christina's World, had a neuromuscular disease and couldn't walk, but she crawled. She was quite a woman from what I understand.

Looking forward to voting THIS week. We have a nurse staffing ballot question that I'm interested in.

That's almost how it is here, Patrick. I'm planning on voting one day this week.

Thanks for doing your civic duty and for your post.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat6.gif

TMI, Herr O!

Didn't say it's a thing for me! It's just an option.

I forgot to mention that we were required to leave our clothing at the security desk. Local ordinance or something. There are a lot of Old Order German Baptists here, so we figure it is some kind of religious thing.

By next election you'll know if SHE'S the local crook... :)

We have the luxury here of voting at home, cold here this time of year so we wear clothes.

Just vote, tuck, tuck again, lick, seal, sign, date and drop off at the lo-cal library, same place we get our DVDs and books too!
Crazy... I know.
But handy as all get out.

I liked that painting too and I purchased one years ago it is hanging in our hallway . Wife and I are dog people :D . We plan on voting next week .

Look for me on the news...it's gonna be 70 tomorrow, thanks to this thread, voting nekkid in early NC voting might be too! Takes me about 2 minutes on a weekday morning in my tiny 2.2 square mile town, where I vote....might just go trick or treatin' afterwards :)

Go vote naked on roller skates .......... tell everyone you are a pull toy ! :D

I voted for the "first" time yesterday afternoon...no skates, and wearing shorts...still got a few beeeeaaaauuutiful voting daze to go however :)!

The little lady and I voted today , literally two people ahead of us . It's nice living in a small town and voting at 11:00 we beat the lunch crowd :D

I voted as well, dropped the ballot of at the County Courthouse.

I thought this was gonna be another thread about dead people.