2020 Voting: Use Your Best Option

I like to go down to my local firehouse to vote. This year, though, I’m going a different route.

Here in Virginia, I have two other options: 1) I can choose to use an absentee ballot — not necessarily a good choice, given the Post Office’s admitted inability to defeat rain, snow (not likely, on November 3!) etc. to get the mail through to its destination; or 2) Vote at the Registrar’s office. In my county, that happens to be in the town housing the heart of government — a town (of no other note) named Rustburg, commemorating, it should be noted, a man unfortunately bearing the last name Rust.

I’m seriously considering opting for the latter option.

Even though our local polling place has — sadly — never been busy in the seven years I’ve been wandering past the fire trucks to cast my ballot there, I’m thinking, ‘why risk encountering, there, some of the idiots who refuse to observe the governor’s ‘rule to wear a mask’ when I can waste a bit of gas and vote in Rustburg, early, with next to no risk of encountering others in the process’?

It is a shame that the voting process has been politicized this year. Sadly, the upcoming election is, beyond doubt, the most important one any of us have ever seen. While every presidential election is important — some in more ways than others — this one is, for sure, a game changer.

If — and I’m far from the only one to say this — too many Americans in Electoral College-critical states vote for the current regime, it is quite likely that democracy as we know it will disappear. The country most of us love for the freedoms we know will be no more.

I believe it wise to take the route that’s surest to get your vote cast and counted — if taking that route won’t too compromise your own personal safety.