It's been bad to live in this country in the past 8 years. It's been a very dark ride. We've seen our quality of life decline and our standing in the world plummet. We have disconnected from one another. Each seperate community has become an island where generally only one way of thinking is tolerated. We have broken down into small tribes where each member is only allowed to fall on one side of what is for all purposes really an arbitrary line. Today that line is getting crossed, hopefully in a very real and tangible way.
IT's so very exciting to be me today. My sister is a volunteer poll worker in Kansas City. I've been texting her, and wouldn't you know she's already been at the center of action... here is what the news has had to say about what happened in her ward:
"In Missouri, another battleground state, at least three precincts in Kansas City's 5th Ward received the wrong registration books from election officials. Shelley McThomas, director of the city's Board of Elections, said cover jackets indicating ward, precinct and sequence numbers were mixed up when the books were assembled.
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"They looked like the right books, but when the judges opened them this morning they discovered, no, these pages aren't the right pages," McThomas said.
New books were printed at the Board of Elections after the discovery of the problem, and they were delivered by deputies to anxious judges and voters in the 5th Ward, she said"
She said it was chaos for the first two hours they were opened but by 8am it was all back on track. By 1:00 pm already half of the people registered in her precient had voted.
My parents voted last friday. My brother was out doing the lords work at 6am this morning speaking to people about no on prop 8.
I have to wait until 5:30 to vote this evening. I'm hoping that all the effort of so many people will have paid off. I'm hoping for an end to the dark ride we've been on. I'm hoping for hope and voting for change.
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