Perry and I did our civic duty yesterday and early voted at the Jackson County Public Library in Seymour. It’s the first time I’ve ever cast my ballot without first wading through a bunch of people campaigning for their candidate — handing out nail files and ink pens — in the staging area.
500 per day voting at JC library and tens of millions nationwide
Perry buddied up to some older chick and got the deets on the local voting numbers and I looked up the national average online. I’m going to be surprised if final tallies fail to show there was a big turnout for this election. The early-voting process was smooth and the atmosphere was friendly.
The only thing I can’t stop thinking about (because I’m weird on certain things), is how those paperclips will remain on those envelopes inside the ballot boxes. I wonder if every polling place has the same procedure — your printed ballot is placed in an envelope and sealed, and then the green paper with your voting ID and info is paper-clipped to the outside of the envelope before you put it in the ballot box.
I can’t keep paperclips to hold stuff together in my desk drawer — think about millions and millions of those suckers trying to do that job. 🥴
EDIT: I spoke with Katie who early voted in her now home state of Tennessee. She explained that no paperclips were used. It’s 2024… why can’t there be a unified process across the country that’s accurate? We’ve had 235 years to figure it out. We put a man on the moon in 1969 for crying out loud!
Now you know: The Constitution uses the 10-year Census to determine the number of representatives in the House for the next decade. The 2020 Census changed the representation for the 2024 election in several states. (Colorado, Florida, and North Carolina each gained a vote in the Electoral College, while Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania each lost one seat. Texas gained two votes.)