I Voted!

Well, my first absentee ballot is off in the mail. I have to say that, price tag aside, I quite liked absentee voting. It took me two and a half hours...but I count that as a pro not a con. Usually, unorganized person that I am, I show up at the ballot box knowing how I'll vote on 2 or 3 things...and then I chew my lip as I stare at the list of two dozen things for me to vote on. And it's too late at that point to do any last minute research! Voting from the comfort of my living room meant that I could do at least some basic web hunting on different politicians, judges, and proposed amendments. I may not have been utterly and completely informed on every issue, but I was a lot more informed having managed to find pros and cons on the amendments, run downs on the politicians and judges (the judges thing was weird actually. Not one of the 7 candidates for Georgia's court of appeals has actually served as a judge before. A little scary in my opinion. But I managed to form a short list of those who seemed reasonable.)

So then it was another 40 min and £5.40 for international post (the "probably 4-5 days" non-guaranteed but faster-than-normal and trackable rate. I couldn't really swing the £40 for guaranteed delivery!) to mail it off. Hopefully it will indeed get where it's going in time to count.