Comments on: A Great Way to Start the Day https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-great-way-to-start-the-day/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-great-way-to-start-the-day/#comment-91321 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:56:39 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10664#comment-91321 In reply to Patricia Lynn Bizzell.

Thanks for your eye-witness report on the accuracy of ballot counting, and for your service!

]]> By: Patricia Lynn Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-great-way-to-start-the-day/#comment-91319 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:09:39 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10664#comment-91319 I always prefer to vote at the polls because I like to join my fellow citizens in person to exercise this right. That we can do so without violence, even now, is moving to me.
I just retired as a poll warden. Having helped to process both many votes cast at the polls and many mailed in, I can testify that the tabulation process is meticulous in the extreme. Every ballot, and I mean every ballot of the thousands, is checked against a list of legitimate voters, and then checked again.
I don’t understand, really, why some people cannot be bothered to take the time to vote. Every vote matters in the moral universe. And think about those who struggled so that you would have the right to do so. As recently as when my mother was born, no woman was allowed to vote in federal elections, simply because of her sex. I’m not giving up my shot!

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