Just Vote.

As I’ve mentioned before, Washington is a 100% vote by mail state. This is a highly civilized way to do things. You can sit at the kitchen table with the voters’ guides and your beverage of choice while you fill in the ballots. The state even picks up the tab for postage. Not only is this method civilized, it’s far less prone to the chicanery that can occur with other voting methods. There is a paper trail to confirm a voter’s choice. No hanging chads, either. We can track our ballots with the number on the stub that detaches from the sheet.

Our ballots arrived today. Both of us completed voting by 7:30 pm. Julian will take the ballots to the drop box at City Hall, to make sure that they get to the Board of Elections. Although Washington allows ballots to be counted as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day, we don’t want to take chances.

Whoever you choose to vote for, vote as early as you can and make sure your ballot is counted. If you don’t exercise your right to vote, you lose your right to complain afterward if things don’t go your way.