[jadziadax8]

Here's me the first day of early voting in Illinois.

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[Johannes Mette]

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[Johannes Mette]

[jadziadax8]

[pfti]

Voted two weeks ago. Sticker is on my work laptop!

[jadziadax8]

Voted two weeks ago. Sticker is on my work laptop!

Are you off work today? Illinois just passed a law last year making today a state holiday, so I'm grading papers at home.

[pfti]

nope georgia does not cancel work,

[Takket]

my company gives us the day off, and I voted absentee, so I'm on the couch watching The Ensigns of command right now. Goshaven is so stubborn

[commdecker]

Democracy.

[Iron Prime]

I can never decide what to do with the sticker so it's just sitting on my keyboard waiting for a home.

Back in the day of CRT monitors I lined them up along the boarders. Not enough space on the edge of modern screens though...

[BCSWowbagger]

I was an election judge! So I have no pictures.

Judging is fun because you're sat down to work alongside people who care about politics as much as you, on the High Holy Day of politics, when all you can think about is politics, except none of you is allowed to discuss it, exactly half of them are from the Other Side, and you don't know who because that's secret. So you just work together to make the day's voting as successful as you possibly can.

So I brought a couple of Star Trek books to read (thanks to @LORE's Prize Cabinet) and ended up sparking a couple conversations about old SyFy shows, and one of the judges knows the guy in Duluth who (apparently?) "does" the current run of Star Trek comics. I talked to a 90-year-old woman about her dead husband, her childhood farm and how it was used as a local polling place, and Catholic-Methodist relations.

All just very healthy conversation (and working together) with people you might (or might not) ordinarily see as The Enemy. It's probably good for all of us.

But pictures of judges are strictly forbidden, so no pics.