-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-27-19  07:10 <=-

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

 JM> When I was working I got in the habit of voting on the way to work. 
 JM> It was only a block out of my way.  They opened at like 6.30 and I was
 JM> there around 7.  When my hours changed to starting at 7 I was there at
 JM> 6.30 since I could vote and still be at work on time.

That made sense...  

 JM> Once upon a time, before the Florida fiasco in 2000, we used punch
 JM> cards.  I really liked those since I would take a list of the numbers
 JM> of the person I was voting for, and "punch 'em out" in a few seconds.

We never had that here.... the old voting machines had little levers you
pushed down, and when you opened the curtain, they'd all tally, and
reset for the next person...  Now, with the computerized ones, we have
to mark the paper ballots with a felt-tip pen, filling in circles... and
then submit it to the machine... I like the old system better,
actually... 

 JM> One time in the '80s the owner of a restaurant we dealt with was
 JM> running for some local office.  He asked if I had voted yet.  I asked
 JM> what number was he and he said whatever number.  I pulled out the slip
 JM> of paper and said "Oh yes, here you are" and showed him.
 JM> He asked what that was about and I said "the old man (the retired
 JM> founder and father of my boss) believed in a secret ballot and came
 JM> around each election day with the numbers we were to vote for.  That
 JM> if we didn't know whom we were voting for it was a secret".    He
 JM> believed me!  LOL

Either he didn't know you were a joker...... or it sounded just like
what his old man would have done and said.... <G>

ttyl       neb

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