Closer to home, the special election to fill Speaker Hastert's seat took place today. Saturday elections are uncommon here. In DeKalb, several churches are polling places. A close look will reveal a small Stars and Stripes, the official POLLING PLACE sign, and a Forward Together Forward banner at the door.
Polls closed 45 minutes ago. There is not yet a winner, although there is carping about voting irregularities. (I thought we'd sold all the defective equipment to Florida. That's not a joke: we used to vote with template assemblies that indicated the holes to punch in the Hollerith cards that served as ballots. The rest of the world now knows those assemblies as "butterfly ballots" and the effect of an incomplete punch as a "hanging chad.")
Despite the persistent winter, Ollies were serving custard. I did my civic duty, then treated myself.
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