Elections

This a good day to remember elections. I remember my first memory of elections was when one of my uncles ran for office. We all worked to get him elected. My job was licking stamps to send to voters. He won that year and kept winning until he was Attorney General of Kansas and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I voted in the school across from my parent's house and then after I was married I worked on the election board in our district. At first there were paper ballots and that meant two boards in each precinct. The second board could start counting the national vote but the local board could not. After the first time I told them I would be back when they got machines. The first machines were very sensitive and we would not let them take children into the voting machine as the child general hit something and their vote was over. One year when we were voting at our local school the apartment house next door to the school caught on fire and the water the firemen used to put it out flooded the school parking lot. I was using a walker at this time so the janitor put a lot of salt out and then helped me to the car as they were afraid I would slip. I made it without any trouble and got to my car. I still always vote now by absentee ballot.