And it’s about time, too. The election system in the United States is such a mess that, several years ago, when I was living in Nevada County, the county clerk was trying to save money on her budget by asking the public to not use the mail-in absentee ballots because they cost the county $7 apiece. I argued it would be cheaper in the long run to make all the ballots absentee. We wouldn’t have to pay for poll workers; we could vote whenever we wanted and have the ballots in by Election Day. Now all we have to do is require that all campaign contributors be anonymous, and we might have some real election reform in this country.
It appears Santa Cruz County might be going all absentee next election, which I approve of. It has yet to go through the Legislature, and we’ll see where that goes; there are too many idiots who are enamored of touch screens. I voted by touch screen last election; it was like selecting photos, not candidates. There’s just something more satisfying about putting a hole through a ballot, especially when you’re voting for the lesser of two evils.