America the Beautiful! My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty….. Oh, election day!
There have been many concerns voiced over this election regarding race, gender, and the like…. Voter registration has soared; and, in many areas of Chicago and Mississippi, the dead have risen to show their civic pride.
Voting itself has been a chaotic experience today. In Braxton, the touch screens weren’t working so they had to do paper ballots but only had 2 pens that were “approved” by the Secretary of State’s office. Therefore, a line developed of over 50 people who had to wait because only 2 people could vote at a time. I was not aware that there were specific pens to be used. In Mayberry, voting was always by paper ballot but I seem to remember them using some sort of charcoal pencil. My prescint was uneventful, thankfully. There were 3 old ladies waiting on the 4th on her walker. An old ass hippie yelling about how he shouldn’t have to be registered b/c he’s an American. I showed my laminated voter registration card; a 90 yr old woman confirmed i was on the roll. I went to the touch-screen booth where Ben Franklin’s grandfather made sure that I “knew how to use this new-fangled techno stuff” and I made my selections.
The sad part is that the major surge of emotion that I felt was not so much patriotism or pride but relief that perhaps now the mudslinging Wicker/Musgrove ads would be over.
