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Don'T You Hate When This Happens

You research choices thoroughly
  until your eyes dim blurrily

The issues you're so familiar with
  you know them like your kin and kith

You review the votes each candidate casts
  project their futures from their past

There's nothing that you fail to cover
  over daily papers you fairly hover

You mark your ballot painstakingly
  then forget to mail it, carelessly

Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2020

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Lindsay Laurie Date: 10/31/2020 5:05:00 PM Hello Gershon … the time is nigh. I hope for you US citizens that the result is taken gracefully. Here in Aus, voting is compulsory or a fine is issued - thank you Gershon - Lindsay Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 10/31/2020 5:53:00 PM Sure hope it's peaceful here. U.S. is becoming more like a banana republic every week, it seems. Thanks, Lindsay. :) gw

Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/28/2020 7:11:00 AM Oh no! Did that happen to you? You can still vote. Oh boy! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 10/28/2020 3:30:00 PM Ha, ha! I voted early in person. Safer than voting by mail if you ask me. Who knows what diseases lurk on those public mailboxes?! lol. :)

Caren Krutsinger Date: 10/28/2020 5:06:00 AM Oh, man, that would burn me. In Kansas we can log into a website to see if your mail in ballots have arrived AND see if they have been tabulated. My husband and I have checked, and the website says yes and yes. Not sure I trust this though. The state is run by the OTHER party. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 10/28/2020 4:37:00 PM No kidding. --- The 'Other Party?' Whigs or Tories? Or maybe the 'Green Party.' Good luck! :)

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 10/28/2020 3:57:00 AM - ... a mega mistake, Gershon - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 10/28/2020 4:40:00 PM Glad I didn't make it! :)

Janice Canerdy Date: 10/27/2020 7:38:00 PM Oh, my, I can imagine how hard a person would kick himself it this happened. Well done, Gershon. Janice Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 10/28/2020 4:40:00 PM Yeah. Sounds like something I'd do. That's why I wrote it, I guess. (Voted early in person, though). :)

Linda Alice Fowler Date: 10/27/2020 7:06:00 PM Let's hope this doesn't happen this year! Linda Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 10/28/2020 4:39:00 PM More probably, mailmen will be found who sandbag ballots... They've already found one who dumped a sack of ballots into a dumpster... Some election; some democracy... :) gw