Mom voted yesterday. She can't get to the polling station so she gets an absentee ballot which she can not read because of her eyesight and can not fill out because she can't put enough pressure on the pen to completely fill in the ovals. I read the ballot to her.
There were seven or eight candidates for US senator, Republican (Tea) (currently under investigation for improper use of party funds), Democrat (payoffs, cushy job for his mom, etc.) and half a dozen independents including the current governor (ex-R (not Tea)). There were four or five candidates for governor including Republican (billion dollar Medicare fraud under investigation again, pleading the fifth 75 times), Democrat (current state CFO with all the baggage from failing state investments, bank shenanigans, etc.), Tea and independents. After that it got messy with a bunch of non-partisan races for county commission, school boards, flood control districts, a bunch of local and county judges, and half a dozen proposed constitutional amendments.
I read the list for each race to Mom, usually several times, and she'd say "That one!" She only managed to pick one major party candidate*. I know she was faking it because she'd make some comment along the lines of "I've heard of him before," or "I like that one," when I know there had never been a single ad or flyer for that candidate. I suspect, in some of the lesser races, she could be the only vote some of these guys might get.
She got tired half way through so she never even voted for any of the judges which is just as well since she finally admitted to not knowing who any of them were.
*So now my vote for that office will be cancelled out by hers. It could've been worse.
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