Slept well, I plan to be at the polls by 10:00.  That would be the time of day with the least voters there, according to the news channel.  I will also volunteer to man the tables later in the day, when and if they need me.  John is a volunteer, standing outside, conducting after-voting polls, and checking off known voters from their lists.  What's that all about? 

This country - we need a whole overhaul of the entire voting system!  Back in the 60's, we finally got Truth in Lending, Truth in Packaging, and Truth in Services(?) passed, and aren't we all much better off for it.  Now lenders can't con you into loans that have hidden costs buried in the fine print.  Now items you pick up at the supermarket have labels on the back announcing what the contents are, a tremendous help in shopping for food.  And now, auto mechanics have to give you an estimate of the charges for repairing your car and stick to it.  These laws have helped, and now we must have TRUTH IN VOTING.  I am going to start a bill, if necessary, with my (new) congressman, and try to do something myself to get this country straightened out on voting.  No more should we have roadblocks set up to reroute voters into detours.  No more flyers announcing that Democrats are supposed to vote on November 5.  No more should there be only three voting machines when there are thousands of voters.  No more exclusion lists.  No more intimidation and dirty tricks.  We just have to do this thing.  We have to overhaul the voting system on a national basis.  I am making this my commitment after this election.  No more monkeyshines in voting!

And we must look at re-apportionment to see exactly what effect this has on the electoral college.  I know that I used to be in a district that was pretty solidly Democratic until they re-apportioned this whole area, and now I have a Republican representative who lives far from our area.  I never really understood what happened there, either.  I know that this was done to hopefully give electoral votes to the Republicans, and they said, "there!  it's about time!" etc.  Hmmm, got to see just what re-apportionment is and what it does or doesn't do to the electoral college.  Well, off to the polls!