Can we get back to politics?
Oct. 10th, 2020 17:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyWell, I voted yesterday. My ballot arrived on Wednesday, I filled it out and sealed it just as the debate was starting, and yesterday I biked to the nearest drop box and popped it in. I wasn't the only person there, either--I stood nearby for maybe five minutes futzing with my bike and checking my route to my next stop and three other people showed up in that interval. It's a relief to finally have that done, though not perhaps as much of one as I might have hoped.
I haven't voted in person since 2016--the California propositions and local offices are far too complicated to deal with in the voting booth (not that we have voting booths per se), I used to have to write myself a cheat sheet that took up a whole notebook page to remember to vote what. After that election I signed up for permanent mail ballots so that I could fill the multiple pages of ballots out at my leisure. I do also think it's good to take some of the burden off of poll workers on actual Election Day.
Anyway, back to writing Vote Forward letters and Postcards to Voters. I've done 300 + 20 of the former (the +20 are the ones I signed up to do for SwingLeft; the coordinator emailed us that he's rented a UHaul to take all the letters to the distribution center in Oakland next Saturday), and…65 of the latter? Sixty more letters to go, and I'll keep writing postcards until they tell us pencils down. Then there'll be runoffs and such to write for, one way or another. In the last four years I really have learned that democracy is something you do.
I haven't voted in person since 2016--the California propositions and local offices are far too complicated to deal with in the voting booth (not that we have voting booths per se), I used to have to write myself a cheat sheet that took up a whole notebook page to remember to vote what. After that election I signed up for permanent mail ballots so that I could fill the multiple pages of ballots out at my leisure. I do also think it's good to take some of the burden off of poll workers on actual Election Day.
Anyway, back to writing Vote Forward letters and Postcards to Voters. I've done 300 + 20 of the former (the +20 are the ones I signed up to do for SwingLeft; the coordinator emailed us that he's rented a UHaul to take all the letters to the distribution center in Oakland next Saturday), and…65 of the latter? Sixty more letters to go, and I'll keep writing postcards until they tell us pencils down. Then there'll be runoffs and such to write for, one way or another. In the last four years I really have learned that democracy is something you do.