Voting With G'ma
This series of reprinted posts is a tribute to my mother, Esther Tamara Rukasin Annis, who died on December 5, 2013. Fresh posts will resume sometime soon. For now, I hope you'll spend the time with us as we remember our mom. It's election day. I took myself to my polling place and walked right into a voting booth (after proving that I was who I said I was by presenting my driver's license) and was finished in 3 minutes. It was vaguely unsatisfying. The room was empty except for the poll workers and me. It was lonely voting without another citizen to share a smile and a civic connection. A low turn out is probably bad news for the candidates and issues about which I care, but that wasn't what was going through my head as I inked in my choices. Instead, I was wondering about the lack of respect for the privilege of being a citizen of these United States of America which obviously exists in this precinct. The franchise was fo...