I went and voted this morning. I don’t know how they are going to keep politics out of religion when you have to go to a church to cast your vote. As Elaine said, it’s a good thing we live on the boondocks. I was #79 in my precinct to vote. It took 15 minutes, half of that time was in the voting booth reading the referendums to make sure they were still what I had studied beforehand. (There were also a few school bond issues that I didn’t realize would be on my ballot so I had to give them a quick read-though as well.)

The most agonizing vote today was the proportional allocation of electors. I am so for that concept rather than the winner-take-all method we have in most (48?) states today. But, unless it is done multilaterally by all the states, it doesn’t seem to provide a very effective political voice at the federal level. So I voted against it, this time. Plus, I understand there is some constitutional luggage with the Colorado amendment. The US Constitution says that the legislature is supposed to determine how the electors are allocated, not the state constitution, so this one would probably go through the courts for a while.