I Voted

I sent in our absentee ballots for the ‘08 election yesterday. It was a bit anticlimactic after having followed the race so closely, swept up in the excitement of a potentially historic vote. I missed not going to the community center at the “Y”, signing in and manipulating the big red dial on the electroinc voting machine. Absentee voting was incredibly easy though and FedEx guarantees one day delivery of the ballots for free from here.

Related Australian Fact O’The Day: In Australia, voting is mandatory. As in, there is a federal law here that requires each citizen to vote. That still puzzles me. And my Australian friends think it’s equally bizarre that it’s not mandatory in the US.