Category: Voting

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Kamala for President!

I absolutely HATE the way Joe Biden was forced out of the presidential race. He is a good man who continues to do his best, and now some people are talking about him as if he has abdicated the Presidency. He is still the President of the United States, my President, and I am confident he is going to finish the job he started. At the same time, he (and I) realized he needed to step aside and pass the baton for the next leg of the race: the race to save American Democracy from an avaricious, self-involved, self-serving, dangerous man and his sycophantic Republican party.

Joe Biden has passed the baton to Kamala Harris, his worthy vice president, and she has hit the ground at an explosive pace, a pace it will be hard to match or beat.

Kamala Harris is in the race for president to win, and she has what it takes to do it. There’s no question that she is smarter than Trump and quicker on the draw. She will pummel him if a debate does happen, and it won’t matter who the moderators are.

This presidential race is ours – Democrats’,  Independents’  and moderate Republicans’– to win!

Everyone who is for Kamala for president must be prepared to do her/his part. That means more than voting on November 5th.

We have fewer than 100 days to win this race. I will volunteer to text folks in Michigan and other “battleground” states. What will you do to ensure that Kamala Harris becomes the 47th president of the United States?

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I Will Miss Voting on Election Day

I VOTED at the Dallas County Elections Department on Round Table Drive in Dallas  TX about 15 to 20 minutes from my home around 5:15 this evening. I drove into the parking lot, was directed to a parking space, showed my photo ID, signed and printed my name and wrote my voter registration number in space 8 on a sheet of paper on a clipboard.
Jacqueline checked my signature with that on my driver license and returned my ID and brown envelope containing my ballot to me. I said, “What do I do with this, go inside?” And she answered, “Now, you vote!” She then lifted up a large blue satchel with white (or gold?) embroidered writing on it and an open zipper just wide enough to accept my brown carrier envelope into which I pushed it.
I had voted!
 
Jacqueline gave me my “I Voted in Dallas County” sticker, we bid each other goodbye, and I drove back home. The whole enterprise took barely 40 minutes. There was no one in front of or behind me. If Jacqueline had not been so cheerful, it would have been a sad affair.
 
I like to vote in person on Election Day; but since I voted absentee in the primary, the Elections Department sent me an absentee ballot for the November 3 election as well. When I found out what a Federal Case it would be to vote in person now that I had the absentee ballot, I resigned myself to voting in absentia. And it was a breeze. I don’t know how to get off of the absentee voting list, and I’m not sure I want to. It looks like the Election Day polls have seen the last of me . . .
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