I know lots of people have shared on this topic, but I don't care. Tonight I went to cast my absentee vote in downtown Brooklyn for Barack Obama, and I am feeling lighter than air. I quadruple checked the circle to make sure I'd filled it all the way in. I've never been so nervous about voting before and about getting it right!
I had to vote absentee because I am a lawyer who lives in New York, but I am doing election protection in Pennsylvania on election day. The Brooklyn Board of Elections office wasn't the wild early voting scene you've heard about other places, because you have to have a good reason to vote absentee in NY (which is very stupid), so it was mellow. But voting absentee this year made me think about the last year I voted absentee for a presidential election, which was in 2000...
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