My Election Day plan:
Today I requested leave on November 3 & 4. The 4th is for me to rest up...I can stay up late the night of the 3rd drinking iced beer, watching the election returns come in. I can stay up late as I need to...that’s why you put ice in your beer. Mexican beer with lemon, over ice, will sooth your anxiety through the night without getting you drunk. I look forward to calling loved ones and crying joyfully over the results, gushing with outrageous relief and elation that we have saved Democracy, that America is not done, that justice will prevail and we can begin planning the restoration of our American dream—and I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout home ownership, n’kay?
November the 3rd is another story. I will vote early, so I won’t vote on the 3rd. Instead, I will fill my station wagon with folding chairs, easy to share food, bottled water, and hand sanitizer. I will stalk the polling places in this area, multiple counties, and I will do whatever I can to support voters in their bravery to exercise their right to vote. And I will take photos.
This what I can do. This is what I will do.
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I requested off the 3rd and 4th of November. I figure either way it goes, I will be hungover on the 4th.
I volunteered with Election Protection for a couple of elections while they were still using amateur volunteers, stationed as an observer at GA polls, but what was really needed was more people with the training to respond like the wrath of legal God to the election attacks being reported everywhere. They were so busy in 2008 that I literally never got a call through the entire day to the attorneys whose assignment included my polling place, had to call violations in to a central number.
Good to know they, and you, are already on this and will be out in force over the next months.
I'd forgotten, but another DUer and I have plans to celebrate the election returns with our favorite Scotch. We didn't foresee it then, but that may stretch out a while. But I'll think of you.
