I looked carefully at the candidates on the ballet provided to me by the state. After careful consideration, which in this case means is there even one on the ballot qualified for the job they are asking to be elected for? Maybe?
My wife and I and other family members vote for someone that may do the job. Or may not. We all load into the Overland rig and forge down to the vote drop-off spot. Expecting to be met with long lines of voters anxious to have a say. But, nobody, just us. We drop our votes, satisfied that we may have made a difference. Sometime later I find that my, and some of the others’, votes did not count. Before the election the political hacks on the Democrat side of state politics got together and voted the way they thought — thought? — the citizens would like to vote.
Well, I will tell you how I like to vote. I will carefully consider who’s running, what they stand for, do I think they can do what they say they will do, and do I agree with them? If the majority of the answers are “yes” I will mark my ballot, seal the envelop and vote.
One big complaint about our political system is the length of the campaign. Cut the country into four sections. Start the primaries in July, have one section vote each month. Then the final election in November. We could have elections that run four months, not four years. Oh yes, and let’s have only one six-year term for the president. There, that should fix a few things.
