Day 32

I voted today.  By mail.  Absentee ballot.

If you're wondering who I voted for president, you must be new to this blog.

The ballot also included the race to fill the unexpired U.S. Senate term of Georgia's Johnny Isakson (the other Senate seat, the one currently held by David Perdue, was also on the ballot).  There were a full 20 candidates running for Isakson's seat, including 6 Republicans, 7 Democrats, one Libertarian, one Green Party, and 5 Independents.  The Republicans included the classless Doug Collins, who, the day after she passed away, tweeted about the number of "murdered" babies pro-choice Justice Ruth Ginsberg would have to answer for, and the self-serving kleptocrat  Kelly Loeffler, who famously dumped her stock portfolio after a classified briefing on the covid pandemic, even as she was telling the public there was nothing to worry about.  The good news is that after the election, at least one of these two (hopefully both) will be out of a job.  I doubt any candidate will get 50% of the vote as required by Georgia law, though, and we almost assuredly will have a run-off election.

A friend of mine from California had asked me how I could stand living in Georgia, as the state was totally controlled by Republicans.  This year's ballot would have surprised him.  There were a full 8 positions where the listed candidate was running unopposed, for offices raging from the Georgia Senate and House, to judges, clerks and solicitor-general, to sheriff, to tax assessor.   We only had one choice on the ballot  (other than a write-in candidate) for each of these 8 offices, and every single one was a Democrat.  So much for "All-Republican Georgia."

There are 32 days until Election Day, so I feel safe that the Post Office will be able get my vote to the Secretary of State's office in time to be counted.