ARE ALL BALLOTS AS EXHAUSTING AS MY BALLOT?
(All photos by kind Passerby)
Whew, it’s done. Dropped in the box at my local library.
But it took forever. In California we have, for instance, ranked choice (probably a good thing) and school board choices (tough for those of us long aged out of public education) etc, etc, etc. And Propositions. Propositions test the limits of fortitude.
Propositions work like this:
Allow krill fishing off of Pier 72. (Yes or No.)
If you really want krill fishing you must carefully also vote the right way on the next Proposition:
Ban krill fishing off Pier 71. (Yes or No.) This might keep krill away from Pier 72; you have to figure it out. Tricky, elaborate explanations run to multiple pages. It’s also wise to read who’s funding what.
Still, we persevere. We rank, we choose, we study, we fill in the circles.
Democracy will survive.