High Fiber—Sign of the Times

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Comment by Carol Ann Hinton on September 9, 2020 at 8:27pm

That is a really interesting scenario, Peggy!  Maybe you should write suspense crime books?

Comment by Peggy Stuart on September 9, 2020 at 10:29am

Here in Oregon, we don't need to have our ballots witnessed. They match our signatures when they are received to prove that we are who voted. I guess someone could stand over you with a gun to your head and force you to sign, but in that case, I don't think my signature would look normal. I'd be shaking too much.

Comment by Janet/MO on September 8, 2020 at 3:14pm

We have paper ballots here in MO.  When we fill them out & then put them in to the machine, it shows how many people voted ahead of you for the day.  There is always someone there to give you an I Voted sticker as well.  That is weird that your daughter & her husband can be each other's witnesses.  The problem here is our governor wanted most people's signatures to be notarized.  That creates a huge burden on people who are not able to get around easily or simply can't afford to pay a notary.  Especially with the lobbies of the banks closed so that means you have to find someone either in an attorney's office, real estate office or title company and then hope they are willing to do it.  You are supposed to be exempt from those requirements under certain conditions, but I just don't trust them.  I find that to be very sad to be honest.  

Comment by Peggy Stuart on September 8, 2020 at 8:46am

I'm not sure I would trust today's voting machines. We need paper ballots. Our daughter and her husband can vote by mail in Wisconsin. They have to have a witness, but they can sign for each other.

Comment by Janet/MO on September 8, 2020 at 6:29am

Several years ago we voted absentee and got to talking to the County Clerk about how great it would be if MO allowed mail in voting.  He was very interested in the concept and asked us what we thought about voter fraud.  We told him that to the best of our knowledge, that really never happened or if it did, it was so rare as to not have any affect on the final outcome.  Sadly he is no longer our County Clerk so now I am not sure if I trust the person who currently is.  I really try not to assume the worst just because the majority here are of the opposite political party than we are, but in today's political climate that is hard not to do.  

Comment by Carol Ann Hinton on September 7, 2020 at 10:21pm

Here in California, my DH and I have "voted by mail" for many years because of his job we could not be certain that we would be at our "place of residence" on election day.  We wouldn't give up our votes for anything!  In our state you can register to vote by mail until you UN-do it, so our ballots arrive in the mail every two years, just like clockwork.

Since this is a small town, we fill out our ballots, and if we are here on election day, or a couple of days before the election, we go together and WALK our ballots to the courthouse and, after our signatures are scanned, we deposit them in the drop box in the Elections Office.  The clerk gives us our little "I have voted" stickers and off we go!  I have no doubt that our votes are counted correctly.  Since we are in our 80's, we try to eliminate the long lines, but we would NEVER not vote!

Comment by Janet/MO on September 7, 2020 at 1:11pm

Enjoyable blog Peggy.  You will be done with that wholecloth quilt before you know it.  I'm hoping that I will be able to start hand quilting again after I have my elbow surgery next month.  Time will tell. I have a lot of wool applique projects that need to be finished as well.  

We are still trying to decide whether or not to vote by mail or in person.  Normally our lines are not terribly long when we vote in person, but with this year it is hard to tell if that will still be the case.  I do prefer to vote in person & watch the ballot go in to the machine, but my husband has a hard time standing in long lines.  Normally you can't vote by mail here in MO, but the governor signed an Ex Order allowing that this year.  However, he put a caveat on it that you had to have your signature notarized which, in effect, keeps about half the population from being able to vote that way.  I'm going to check to see if that part has been rescinded which it should be!  

Comment by Peggy Stuart on September 7, 2020 at 12:27pm

Kathleen, I agree. It’s so sad.

Comment by Kathleen Kingsbury on September 7, 2020 at 10:48am

We've had new rules for recycling for a couple years now. Not pandemic related. I throw away more plastic now than I ever have. We can only recycle plastic with a 1 or 2 in the triangle in the bottom, and only small opening containers like laundry detergent bottles, mustard and ketchup containers, milk jugs etc. So no deli-type containers like you show, no yogurt cups, no produce clamshell containers, even if those containers have a 1 or 2 on them. I think it's a terrible program. More plastic in the landfill. Honestly I'm tempted to go back to my old recycle ways and let them sort it out on the conveyor belts!