The other night I rented the movie 50 First Dates. When I had seen the previews for it, it looked really silly. The last couple of movies I saw with Adam Sandler seemed pretty dumb. I was not expecting much from the movie. And there was a bunch of dumb stuff in the movie. But the movie itself was rather touching. It was sweet and even caused me to get choked up. So this movie turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable.
Voting is different here in Colorado than it was back on the East Coast. In New Jersey, and I remember it was the same basic things when my parents voted in New York, the voting was in a mechanical voting booth. You would go to a desk and sign the big book. The would give you a sheet of paper. You would take the paper over to a voting machine. An assistant would take the paper and put it somewhere on the side of the machine. You would pull a big mechanical handle that would close the curtain behind you. Then you would flip the levers to indicate your vote. After, you would push the big handle, which would record your vote, reset the levers and open the curtain.
Here in Colorado, the beginning of the process is the same. You wait on line and sign the big book. I went with my wife, as she dropped her car off for service. At first she was going to vote before she dropped off her car. But she called me to tell me the line was an hour long. After I picked her up at the shop,...
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