[Magdalen] Two things I love about Election Eve 2016...

[Grace Cangialosi]

These were the required distance away--I don't know what that is--and there was some literature there, but no one was handing anything to people. Only two tables, one per party, right next to each other, and we were all kind of hanging out together.

The couple at the Republican table were parishioners at the little church where I'm priest-associate. They're very conservative, so I wasn't surprised, but it gave me a chance to ask someone whom I know to be a faithful Christian how she could support Trump, given everything. She said she didn't support him, but it was about the party, and the fact that the country is on the wrong track. Then she asked me the same question about Hilary. I said she is far and away the more qualified and experienced. My friend said she couldn't vote for H because she enabled her husband's affairs...

I just had a call from the local Dem chairman. I was supposed to give someone a ride to the polls in a little while. She called the chair and said she's in Charlottesville now, and could we give her a ride tomorrow instead!! 

> On Nov 8, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Grace,
> 
> Why are there tables set up for each party?  Here in WV there is no
> electioneering within 300 feet of the polls.  (None at Blue Ridge
> Elementary today!)
> 
> "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
> humbly with your God?"
> Micah 6:8
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I actually like going to the polls. I think I've only voted absentee three
>> times, and I always felt that I was missing out on something. I did NOT
>> like having all the literature shoved at me as it used to be in Maryland,
>> and a friend used to smuggle me in through the back door so I wouldn't have
>> to run the gauntlet. Doesn't happen here--just one table set up for each
>> party, and no one shoves anything at you.
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2016, at 11:21 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> Voter Registration Number: 43575FG
>>> This voter’s completed Vote By Mail ballot (or early voting ballot)
>>> has been received by the Chicago Election Board.<<<
>>> 
>>> I am so blest that CA is a virtually all vote-by-mail state.  Monterey
>> County certainly is.  And I love my Elections Dept, not just because I live
>> in the County seat, but because they are so smooth and efficient.  (I'm
>> honestly considering looking into getting hired there, to end my time at
>> the Water Resources Agency.)  On Saturday, when I drove through (yes, drove
>> through) so as to hand in my, Ev's, and Anna's ballots (they're out of
>> state currently), I can only describe the experience as deft.  As I rolled
>> down my window, the temp-hired teenager already saw I was holding three
>> ballots, and handed me my three "I Vetoed" stickers before I'd even put the
>> ballots in her hand.  Talk about training.  And deftness!
>>