Tomorrow I will got to my polling place and vote. I won’t be voting for the candidates of my choice because they aren’t on the ballot. I won’t even write in candidates.
The candidates are not of my choice because only the candidates that successfully ran the gauntlet of the primaries are on the ballot. I won’t write in because Illinois law makes that effectively useless. Only candidates that have filed official letters of intent to be a write-in candidate in every jurisdiction in which they will be written in will have their write-ins counted.
But I’ll vote anyway if only to vote for and against referenda.
About the same here, the Democrat Party candidates have done little in the way of outreach and the local New Frontier Democrat’s newspaper has stashed what coverage they run behind a paywall, Yet, I am expected to vote to keep Putin at bay and prevent the formation of Gilead, though who for is an apparent mystery to the local editorialists.
Yet one must earn the right to kvetch so off to the polls I will wander.