I hope your dad is doing well, mebelle. Surgery~ma.

One of my Canadian Media subscription services has gone toes up and will disappear at the end of the month, so I am planning an evening of binge-watching Jane the Virgin, and keeping an occasional eye on your election results.

What will really happen is probably what happens every time I go to Shomi, I watch one episode of the intended show and then several more episodes of The West Wing. I've already done a rewatch of the entire series.

Dad~ma for you, msbelle.

It was about 30 minutes to vote this morning and we got there right as the polls opened. We had to do the family voting thing because of the one car right now.

The non-standardized voting we do in the States is absolutely crazy. So many ways for things to go wrong. Especially with the touch screens and their constant calibration issues. I like the scantron ballots we have here, since it has the all-important paper trail if there's a recount and anyone who has taken a standardized test knows how to fill them out.

Surgery ~ma for your father, msbelle.

We got in line this morning about 6:50 a.m. and got out about 8:20. We took the girl, and I hope she has good memories of this day. I took the day off from work, and am working at home on another project so I wouldn't have to talk to anyone / throat-punch anyone.

I like the scantron ballots we have here, since it has the all-important paper trail if there's a recount and anyone who has taken a standardized test knows how to fill them out.

Yeah, me too. Although I really enjoyed the old-fashioned voting machines I had in PA and NY. I think I had punch-cards in DC, but maybe they transitioned to some computer thing when I lived there? I forget. Vote all the ways!!

Glad you're here, Karl.

Cookies in the voting line! I would buy so many Vote With Love cookies.

Yeah, I am more nervous about the senate and house races.

I am nervous about everything. Twice I thought, "America won't vote for Bush (again)" and I was wrong. I don't trust America to be sane anymore.

The non-standardized voting we do in the States is absolutely crazy.

100%. Here, we got scantrons a couple election cycles ago, and it's much preferable; filling out a paper ballot relieves that worry that the vote didn't get counted correctly, and as you say, provides that all-important paper trail.

We need the Senate so Hilary can actually get judges on the Supreme Court. Which we need to get things like gerrymandering prohibited.

I LOVED the old lever machines we had in NYC. Do not like the wheel electronic things we have in Texas.

The lever machines in NYC are gone, gone, gone. We have SAT-test ballots now.

Ha. Someone just added me to Pantsuit Nation, and FB tells me my mother and brother are already members.

I also loved the old lever machines. We have scantron these days, which is fine, after a brief flirtation with touchscreens. I hated the touchscreens in Louisiana, everything about them.

{{{Maria}}}

I've gotten a couple of nice comments in the pantsuit, nothing not nice. In fact, the meeting I was just in for a little while was just me and another woman, and she said how she loved the pantsuit and then told me about the Facebook group and how uplifting it was, so that was fun.

Oh, man, I need to tell y'all: I wore flat to go vote because it was about a mile to walk and then all the usual walking between bus stops, but I brought heels with me because these pants are hemmed for heels. When I got to my cube and pulled out the heels I realized they are not a pair - one is black and one is navy and they are not even the same style. So, continuing to wear the flats.