My wife has a very cute superstition about voting.

[NNadir]

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I vote by mail, and voted earlier this week in the New Jersey Democratic Gubernatorial primary.

My wife votes in person. She's voting today. She just informed me that she's going to vote at the library, since the last time she voted at the firehouse, an Orange mold was elected to infest the White House.

I asked her if she blamed herself for the outcome.

She laughed and said, "maybe."

She's a cutie.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Here in Ohio we vote at a pre determined location and that location only.

I will have to check it for orange mold next time I vote!

[NNadir]

2. That used to be the case here as well, but it changed. We were discussing it this morning. In the 2000 election...

...I had to get an absentee ballot, because I was going to be in Italy on election day. Without an absentee ballot, one had to vote in the township building; there was no other option.

Besides the Bush/Gore fiasco, in my town, we had two other very close elections. One involved the best Congressperson I ever had in my long life, Rush Holt, a physicist and a wonderful thoughtful liberal (with whom I sometimes disagreed but always enormously respected) and also the mayor of our township, an election that literally involved a difference of one vote. (They actually decided to have a second election; the local Democrat won the second time out.)

When I called my wife from Italy, she told me Rush Holt had lost, and I was devastated. However, the election was so close, a few hundred votes, that Holt did not concede because the absentee ballots, including mine, had not been counted,

When they were counted, Holt won.

I never felt that my vote mattered as much as it did then. My chest swelled a bit. Holt went on to serve multiple times until he decided to retire to head the AAAS.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Your story proves that it's so important to vote!

Thanks for sharing it!

[IbogaProject]

3. Early voting is often more flexible

Since the poll books are online early voting is more flexible. In NYC you can vote at any of the EV sites. Election day you have to go to specific location for your precinct.

[quaint]

5. So cool the way you write about your wife.

Especially good post; I did not need to use a dictionary .

[Emile]

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