it might sound morbid, but whenever i walk into a voting booth i invariably think of all the people who have died defending our freedoms, including the right to vote and all the people who have died around the world attempting to get the right to vote.

it seems like the least i could do is to stay informed of the issues to make the best decision i can with a mark on a ballot.

by the time i cast by ballot right before the polls closed over 1,600 people had voted in the controversial kapanke recall which is easily 4 times what would be considered a normal turnout in a mid-term election.

it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. i saw a lot of unfamiliar faces at the voting station, including the elderly man in the booth next to me who had appeared to have never voted before.

amusingly ( or not ), despite the new sort-of requirement for a driver’s license and signatures on paperwork, kris voted after me and discovered the kindly volunteers had mixed up our ballot numbers and names which could have possibly invalidated both our votes.