Working the Election
a local reminder about voters' rights Four years ago, as I walked to my local precinct to vote, I took a picture of the path. My premonition was that the election would not turn out the way most polls were predicting, and I just wanted one peaceful snapshot before things started to change. The next day, I wrote a blog post on my election thoughts, using the title from a Bruce Springsteen song. I called the post, "A Really Long Walk Home." This year, I had no such premonitions, and now that the results are in, and in light of the national direction over the past 46 months, I suppose I could have written a follow-up called, "An Even Longer Walk Home." But my own vantage point has changed in way I couldn't have predicted in 2016. Last year our township clerk contacted me to ask if I might be interested in being an Election Inspector in the November 2019 election. Lori's been working elections for years, and eventually I said "yes." In March, I si...