I decided to test the “Mail-in-Vote” and requested an on-line application, filled in all questions as required, clicked and send the filled out form into cyberspace. Few weeks later the “Mail-in-Vote” envelope arrive at my domicile. This was a very simple way to register to vote. No one came to check if I was an “illegal” or “legal” resident, “dead” or “alive” at this address.
Upon on receipt of the “Mail-in-Vote” envelope I decided not to trust the postal employees of my Midwestern city which recently “out of the blue” refused to deliver mail to our very expensive, private Post Office Box labeled as “Returned to Sender” “No Such Number” and “Unable to Forward.” Needless to say, we are the legal owner of this private Post Office Box for over 30 years paying the astronomical sum of $326 per year for the “box privilege”!!!
Based on the above experience I decide to vote in person. I drove into town and stood in line, masked six feet apart, for 30 minutes outside the polling station. I was sanitized by a County election official, led on cue into the polling place, handed in my “Mail-in-Vote” envelope, signed a paper that I changed my mind and now would vote in person, and stood in line for another 10 minutes until a masked and gloved poll worker handed me a 4-digit code to enter on the voting machine to activate a ballot, and herded me toward a voting machine. Again, no one was checking if I was a “legal” or “illegal” voter living in the appropriate voting precinct in my County. I was not required to produce a Government approved identity voter document.
After entering the code, I marveled at the ballot, which had removed the option to vote a straight party ticket, so I had to read and sort through each and all of the D’s and R’s, the occasional Green Party, and even a Libertarian candidate or two! Nobody slapped my hand when my voting machine wheel moved toward a non-party approved candidate. I was just testing to see if anyone was checking and completed my early voting ballot. Thankfully I was not threatened, intimidated because of my skin color, or forced to chant anything about anyone’s live that mattered.
I just voted, “legally” or “illegally” as it may be.