Well, I got that done. Did you yet?

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At 11:37 a.m. Friday at the West Columbia Community Center. About 50 people behind us, too.

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….

2 thoughts on “Well, I got that done. Did you yet?”

  1. Brad Warthen Post author

    And how did I vote? Well, I told you most of that already. But to summarize:

    • Harris/Walz
    • David Robinson (I don’t know much about him, but I voted just to express my wish to have a new congressman — and of course, my vote will have no effect. Not meant as a slap at Joe, and I hope he’s recovered well from his recent health problems. I’d just like for someone else to have a chance, and no one does, because gerrymandering.)
    • Russell Ott (Go, Russell! I didn’t wear my Russell Ott hat to the polls — my headgear was totally neutral. But I’m putting it back on now to go walk in the neighborhood. Because, you know, some people still haven’t voted, and I don’t think the two signs in my yard are enough…)
    • Micah Caskey (Which reminds me. Voters were talking kind of openly about what they were doing with the volunteer who was there to answer questions, and it become painfully apparent that the lady at the machine across the table from me was about to vote a straight ticket. I just didn’t have time to jump across and wrestle her to the ground and prevent it. I’m not as spry as I was…)
    • Mary Burkett for Lexington 2 school board. (I told you before I was going to vote for her — and you could tell by the sign in my yard. But there were four seats being filled, and since then, I had also decided to vote for Craig Aull, Liz Chitty Castles and Brian Habing. And so I did.)
    • As for the stupid mock “referendum” thing about non-citizen voting… I could have just ignored it, but I voted no. (Not because I want non-citizens to vote, but because I know it’s not going to happen, and that there’s no problem here to address, and moreover, I know this is just another case of Trump-era Republicans going out of their way to milk resentment of immigrants to promote turnout for their ticket. And I’ve had more than enough of that crap.)

    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….

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