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Stealing a line from a great movie with a bit of modernization: "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy 76 nights." It's gping to get worse and worse and worse, and we'd best be willing to do what Thomas Friedman wrote in today's NYT (can't believe I am quoting him):

“Personally, I will walk, I will jog, I will skip, I will crawl, I will slither, I will bike, I will hike, I will hitchhike, I will drive, I will ride, I will run, I will fly, I will roll, I will be rolled, I will be carried, I will trek, I will train, I will trot, I will truck, I will strut, I will float, I will boat, I will ramble, I will amble, I will march, I will bus, I will taxi, I will Uber, Lyft, scooter, skateboard or motorcycle — and I will wear a face mask, a face shield, gloves, goggles, a hazmat suit, a spacesuit or a wet suit — but I damn well will get to my neighborhood polling station to see that my vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is cast and counted.”

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It's the "and counted" part we need to make sure happens...

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I posted that clip from Friedman's essay yesterday too...even though I don't always agree with him, he got that one right! That is me too. I will do whatever it takes. Just today I got a form to vote by mail here in GA. I'm debating whether to fill it out to get my ballot ahead of time and vote as early as I can, or wait and vote early in person, though difficult for me mobility-wise.

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My wife and I live in a rural county in California only 10 minute drive from county offices. For 2 decades we have been driving our vote-by-mail ballots straight to the office that collects the ballots. Even before this corrupt Administration, US Mail isn’t 100% reliable, although I would give it an “A” before 2020.

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