Reply #28: I'm Still Waiting

[3reddogs]

The Ohio Democratic Party left 3 messages on my answering machine over the course of last week telling me to watch my mail for an absentee ballot application (and, of course, telling me to vote Democratic). I'm still waiting for it to show up. Not that I need it, though ... I've planned all along to take advantage of Ohio's wide-open absentee ballot process so I visited their website, printed the application, filled it out and mailed it to the Summit County Board of Elections 3 weeks ago. I'm still waiting for my absentee ballott to show up too!! (I called and they haven't come back from the printer yet :-) ) Interestingly, one of my co-workers who lives in a different Ohio county got similar messages but his were from the Ohio REPUBLICAN Party. His absentee application showed up in the mail as promised, he filled it out and mailed it in (and he's already gotten his absentee ballot back!)

If Ken Blackwell is going to screw around again this year maybe he'll at least have to do more than mess with the electronic voting machines. (Every Democrat in Ohio should vote using an absentee ballot because, sure as hell, there won't be enough voting machines in the Democratic precincts in November just like there weren't enough back in 2004!)