Finally.
I have voted. After what seems like 100 years of people yammering about nothing but this election, to a point way beyond weary disgust. (People talk about Kamala Harris having only 100 days to campaign. That’s more than enough, people.)
Anyway, it’s over. And as I’ve said before during these last four years since I voted early for the first time, can we just go ahead and count the votes and move on? Not one of us needs 11 more days of this hysteria.
Anyway, the line was fairly long outside the West Columbia Community Center. You can see above what it was like at at 11:37 a.m. At that point there were also 50 people behind my daughter and me in line (this wasn’t the first picture I took). But it moved pretty well. Going by my texts and other evidence, we were at the door of the building at 11:54. And we were completely done by a couple of minutes after noon, in spite of my usual obsessive slowness, checking and double-checking each step as I’m voting.
As we were leaving, and the lady was about to hand me an “I voted” sticker, I pulled out my phone. She reflexively started to tell me not to take pictures, but I explained, that no, I wanted to show her something. That was the photo below, of a friend’s 3-month-old after her parents voted at this same location yesterday.
I told the lady I wanted a sticker that would make me look THIS cute. She admired the picture, and gave me a sticker, but It didn’t work….
And how did I vote? Well, I told you most of that already. But to summarize:
Of course, I didn’t bother with any of those countywide offices in which the Republican nominee had no opposition. We all know their elections were over in June. And of course, if I were voting in Richland County, I suppose there’d be some Democrats I’d be ignoring for similar reasons….
As for the nonsense about “noncitizen voting,” it’s currently the lede story in The Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/26/noncitizens-voter-fraud-wisconsin/
Which means this is a slow news day….