I Voted!

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No, unfortunately my ballot from the states didn't come in time. Instead, Jordan Monnahan, with the JBU crew down in Dundrum, let me know last night about www.fvap.com (Federal Voting Assistance Program) where, if your absentee ballot doesn't show up within two weeks of the election, you can print off a ballot, write in your vote, and mail it off to your county clerk. So, I just dropped it off at the post office with the hope that it'll have today's date stamped on it, will arrive in time, and, therefore, will count*.

*I realize there is this sense of defeat in the reality that few elections are won by one vote. However, I feel as though I've done the right thing in voting. If for no other reason then because I have the ability and, therefore in this case (not in every case), the responsibility to vote - particularly when so many around the world desire to have the ability to vote in an election and, instead, are subject to live under the rule of someone who took power or was given it.