Voting
I got up at 5:17 this morning to vote; only voting or a plane flight would get me up at that ungodly hour, and by 6 am I was sitting in the truck to the accompaniment of the Ting Tings, trying to find my voter card. It's a new district for me, and I wanted to be sure I had all my ID matching (I had already looked up my voter registration on line, so I was in the system--I had registered to vote in the summer at the Driver Services Office). The polling place was a church, which I thought was odd (it's always been a public building in where I have voted before; a community center or a school). And there was a huge line, but it moved fast--because OMG there were paper ballots!! The local tabulations here are done by the old fill-in-the bubble, opti-scan system that leaves a paper trail. In New Jersey we went from lever machines, which were like playing slot machines and a lot of fun, to punchcards that were fiddly, to the despised "no record" touch screens by Sequoia....