Fired Up and Ready to Go!

We just got back from voting. It took about 15 minutes at our little polling place. They weren't using the electronic ballot boxes that they normally do - they were using old fashioned paper ballots that were scanned into a machine that one voter commented looked a lot like a shredder. It was pretty easy and Jake even got to color in the box for the parks bond referendum.

When we first showed up, both parties were there of course handing out sample ballots and stickers. The couple behind us picked up a sample ballot and then the husband let out a sigh of disgust - "Oh, this is the Democrat ballot" and crumpled it up and threw it away and went back to get a Republican sample ballot. I think this guy was afraid he might catch something from just holding the thing. It was too early in the morning to remind him that the ballots are identical.