Reply #78: My 18 year old voted absentee for the first time yesterday! [View All]

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I went over the ballot with her on the phone, and she has to get it postmarked today. Very exciting! That ballot did not come in her mail until yesterday! We were freakin' out. But all's well.

My first (and last, until this year) was in 1984 for Mondale and Ferraro. I wasn't very political at the time, but the prospect of a woman in the White House was great. I was so naive. At 30.

But what really pissed me off was that one guy I voted for for town council or something (I don't even remember) got elected. It was a very small town, a few thousand people, where everyone knew everyone else intimately or you were related. He was one of those charismatic types that everyone loved. He was slated to be the next governor (NH). He'd come into the diner where I worked and chat us all up. He was great. Except that he then embezzled $16,000 out of our hiway fund for his coke habit. I was really disillusioned and stayed far far away from politics until this incredibly crucial year.

My other daughter is 14 and will be able to vote next time. :)