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Safe Voting


By Juanita - Posted on 13 January 2008

Okay, I've made a decision here. I am no longer going to call it "EARLY Voting." I am going to call it "SAFE Voting," and Hal gives me another reason why.

Having Republicans run elections (in this county, they select the chief of the elections division) makes me real nervous. If they are going to challenge my vote, I want to have time to hire myself a lawyer.

And as Hal suggests, they might move my voting location without telling me. Hey, if they do, I want more than a couple of hours to find it. There's some pretty darned good hiding places in my precinct, and I suspect they'd select a dandy one.

SAFE Voting runs from February 19 - February 29 and is in the same darned location every day.

A pretty smart guy once told me, "You should vote on the first day they let you. That way, if you get run over by a truck, your vote still counts." I like that kind of optimistic thinking.

Plus, I figure that anything candidates say in the last two weeks of an election is probably desperation lies anyway. It's kinda like the lies you hear in a bar 30 minutes before closing time.

Any Democrat who doesn't Vote Safe has a loose cog in their thinkin' assembly.

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