Voters in Training

Even though yesterday was looooooooooooooong, it was good day. This is the last year NY state will use their old mechanical voting machines (of course they said that last year too....). Whether it was nostalgia or one of the other reasons we've heard so much about today (is everyone glad to be getting back to plain old toilet paper ads instead of the negative, political ones?), we had over 50% of the registered voters in our district come out to vote. Many of those voters were first time voters and many brought their babies/kids with them. Years from now, the kid on the right should be able to remember going into a "big, old, clunky booth and pulling down levers to vote". The baby in the basket on the left slept through the whole exciting event.

The sign from the last blog??? Duly posted at the election site, of course. For those of you who get the British magazine, "The Oldie", look for it there. A friend picked the picture off the blog after the primary and sent it in. They liked it so much, they included it in the latest issue. We're FAMOUS!!! (well, not quite, they don't print credits.)