I live in Washington State where most everyone I know has already voted
for president through mail. Washington and our neighbor Oregon are the two strictly
mail in voting states in the
union, giving polls headaches as to
which way Washington might have already
made or broke a candidate’s big day before Nov. 6th even arrived.
It was a little weird hearing how my friends and family
members voted for president all week in the past tense. One thing I found
ironic was that the return envelope for the ballot required postage paid for by
the voter if you put it in the U.S. mail.
Washington State has been in some financial troubles also
with a billion
dollar fiscal shortfall of its own. They recently transferred their control
of hard liquor from state liquor stores to the private sector for the first
time since the end of prohibition in order to focus on tax
collecting from hard liquor users, rather than selling booze to them.
The State Legislature has already passed an initiative
legalizing gay marriage months ago that was then immediately blocked by
petition from those who believe marriage is between Adam and Eve not Adam and
Steve. This set up the election drama and suspense in this state over another
hot social issue that had me looking over my shoulder when filling out the my
ballot on my coffee table so no one saw what box I checked.
Legalizing
marijuana was also on my ballot and I looked around the room again, and
when no one was looking checked that box as well with a smug smile on my face
as I licked the envelope, placing the stamp that taxes would not pay for on it,
then walked it to the street corner and dropped it in the Mail box.
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