And the water's the worst-tasting I've ever had

[sovay]

I have done my civic duty! With the help of paranoia, since before leaving I stashed a utilities bill in my coat in memory of our last experience voting in this ward and precinct and indeed, this time I was discovered to have been deactivated as a voter since last November, reasons especially unclear in light of all the rigmarole we went through at that time in order to convince the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of our current location. I produced the bill and my driver's license, signed a suitable affidavit as to my legal and residential realities, cast my vote, and immediately re-registered on returning home. Thanks to the time change, it gave me a night walk through rustling October-orange leaves, Bradbury weather reluctant to close the door. I have spent so little of this year normally out of doors, glimpsing most of my sunlight through windows or brief excursions through my neighborhood before my stamina rolls down like a steel shutter on the day. The leaf-smell, even the still too sharply white streetlight through their crisp, fragmented sugar-red shade felt like a treat.

Comments

[kathmandu]

Eeeep! Good thing you were so prepared.

In times like this we need every responsible voter, even for local things like school board.

[sovay]

Eeeep! Good thing you were so prepared.

It's not paranoia if they're really sufficiently disorganized as to be indistinguishable from out to get you!

In times like this we need every responsible voter, even for local things like school board.

Thank you. I am particularly invested in squelching our recurring mayoral candidate who has taken to espousing election denial and other big-lie, fake-news rhetoric along with the kind of claims about the crime rate that just feel like racist dogwhistles. He stakes out yard signs on all the properties he owns and doesn't even live in Somerville. He lost resoundingly last time, but even if I didn't like the incumbent mayor in her own right, I wouldn't want this dude getting even a look-in. [edit] He didn't!

[aurumcalendula]

Yay for doing your civic duty (here's hoping you don't get any surprises next year) and that sounds like a lovely walk!

I voted by mail a couple weeks back and am attempting to distract myself from checking the results until much later.

[sovay]

Yay for doing your civic duty (here's hoping you don't get any surprises next year) and that sounds like a lovely walk!

Thank you! I can't believe my plan of carrying superfluous documentation two years in a row has been not that superfluous at all!

I voted by mail a couple weeks back and am attempting to distract myself from checking the results until much later.

Please have this armload of apotropaic charms.

[aurumcalendula]

Please have this armload of apotropaic charms.

Thank you! (and yay, it looks like Ohio's Issue 1 passed)

[sovay]

Thank you! (and yay, it looks like Ohio's Issue 1 passed)

Oh, congratulations, and have this Gorgoneion anyway.

[gwynnega]

I can't believe they deactivated you as a voter, but I'm glad you came prepared! Sheesh.

[sovay]

I can't believe they deactivated you as a voter, but I'm glad you came prepared! Sheesh.

Thank you! The warden thought it might have been because we hadn't been part of the most recent census, but that doesn't explain to me why spatch is still on the lists as an active voter and I am not when we live in the same overlooked house!

[thisbluespirit]

Well done for being prepared enough to beat them at their games! (Boo for having to, of course, though. *shakes fist at them*)

[sovay]

Well done for being prepared enough to beat them at their games!

Thank you! It's ridiculous!

[asakiyume]

It's exhausting to have to be so prepared for screwups with literally everything; good on you for, in fact, being prepared.

And hurray for the rustle and leaf smell. (And that image of the steel shutter. Just perfect, down to the noise of I'm-done-now as it hits the ground.)

[sovay]

It's exhausting to have to be so prepared for screwups with literally everything; good on you for, in fact, being prepared.

Thank you! I will continue to take unnecessary precautions until they actually are unnecessary.

And hurray for the rustle and leaf smell. (And that image of the steel shutter. Just perfect, down to the noise of I'm-done-now as it hits the ground.)

It's pretty much how I feel at the end of the day!