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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

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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

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!

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.

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 :)

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

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

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