Bluevetredstate has voted!

Idaho allows its citizens to request absentee ballots for all elections each year, and starts delivering absentee ballots 45 days before Election Day. I submitted my absentee ballot request in January and on Monday I received my ballot for the May 19 Democratic primary.  The ballot was a pleasure to fill out. For the first time in decades, there is a Democrat running for every seat in the state that will be contested in the November general election. On the same day, I made my choices, sealed, signed, stamped and dropped the ballot in a USPS collection box. While I don’t expect many Democrats to win, you can’t beat somebody with nobody and I am now looking forward to November when I won’t feel that I have to decide between voting for an unchallenged Republican, or just not marking that part of the ballot.  And maybe, just maybe, at least, we gain some seats in the statehouse.