• Voting (was: Re: Travel and juries)

    From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Nancy Backus on Wed Mar 27 07:15:28 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    We aren't that early at rising... so I don't think we've ever been first
    or second... ;) But we always do show up... :)

    When I was working I got in the habit of voting on the way to work. It
    was only a block out of my way. They opened at like 6.30 and I was there around 7. When my hours changed to starting at 7 I was there at 6.30
    since I could vote and still be at work on time.
    Once upon a time, before the Florida fiasco in 2000, we used punch
    cards. I really liked those since I would take a list of the numbers of
    the person I was voting for, and "punch 'em out" in a few seconds.
    One time in the '80s the owner of a restaurant we dealt with was
    running for some local office. He asked if I had voted yet. I asked
    what number was he and he said whatever number. I pulled out the slip of
    paper and said "Oh yes, here you are" and showed him.
    He asked what that was about and I said "the old man (the retired
    founder and father of my boss) believed in a secret ballot and came
    around each election day with the numbers we were to vote for. That if
    we didn't know whom we were voting for it was a secret". He believed
    me! LOL
    Joe
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