We already received apps for the absentee ballots, so we are still good in Ohio.
Our problem is that our polling place has changed in each of the last three or four elections. A few more elections and we'll have voted in every church in our district in Akron. [/exaggeration]
But there are several on Market Street, so seeing the address is on Market Street isn't very helpful.
I personally hate the fact that I have to go into a church to vote. Or that churches are accepted as neutral polling places at all. Talk about failure of separation of church and state. Voting should be done in public schools, dedicated polling places, or other neutral public locations.
I've been thinking about this post. There was something that kinda ticked me off back in the day. The more I learned, the less ticked off I became, but now something else just dawned on me. Now I get to be ticked off about something again! So awesome! Nothing like having a reason--even if I do have to work hard at it, lol.
I was asked (and am usually asked) if I'm voting democrat or republican. My first reaction (held internally) is none of your damn business. If others are as psychotic as the news depict, ones life is easily in danger of revealing that. Just as there are people yearning to hang Democrats, there are those that'll put a cap in the ass of a republican. If YOU want to stand before the animal kingdom and declare which pride to which you belong irrespective of the dangers, that's on YOU--not the slinky dinks at the polling places setting you up for the kill.
But then, I learned. We only vote once every four years and they never actually ask! Say what? What about all that other voting where they actually do ask! Well, thing is, I was confusing my "they's."
If atheists wanted to run, they could, but if they formed themselves a little club, held kitten seances and voted amongst themselves and stood behind a single atheist come election time, they could be in the running and back a single candidate if they wanted.
The democratic and republican parties are just little itsy bitsy clubs that got together privately to conspire support. As an American citizen, I don't have to be a member of any itsy bitsy party grown to gargantuan size and disclose to the wolves of the world who i would otherwise support in silence. However, if I decide to strap on my weapons and dare to announce my affiliation, that's different.
Soooo, I've been okay with knowing that my right to vote in secrecy of who I support is in tact. Of course, I'm a member of the Republican Party, but that's a choice I made and fully intend to suffer the consequences of any bullets that might come my way because of it. It was my choice to align myself in public view. At any rate, all has been well.
But now I sit and wonder what treasonous bastardization of my party has afflicted my platoon of republican buddies. How come the very same people that welcome me through the doors of our little get togethers of midterm voting also salivate at the presence of the enemy?
See, It's like this: I walk in, they ask if I'm voting democrat or republican. Those that say Democrat will be id'd and looked up on a different roll and be given a blue chip or blue ticket and then escorted to the voting booth. Same for republicans. On occasion, they don't vote on the same day, so the club has its private feel to it, but not always, and in either case, it's the very same people that all are apart of the election commission--poll managers and their immediate supervisor the poll clerk.
All in all, there seems to be something dastardly in the mix--as if there's a meshing of sorts between the private clubs to which the election commission has no business in over seeing and the government.
Maybe you have a gripe about the church, but then again, I despise the fire department, but neither of us should have a gripe (with the government) with the possible exception of actual Election Day.
