San Francisco sent everyone ballots in the mail this election, to reduce crowding on election day, so I spent some time this weekend deciding how to vote and then dropped off my ballot this afternoon.
California seems to have a penchant for letting the voters decide on things by proposition. In addition to all of the elected offices, my ballot had twenty-five state and local propositions on it. The department of elections sent a pair of books, totalling half an inch of newsprint, to explain them all.
The other side effect of all the propositions was a frankly absurd number of flyers arriving in my mailbox over the past few weeks, all vying against each other to get my vote.
Once I’d ignored all of them and spent a lot of time reading all of the arguments in the voter information guides to decide how to fill out my ballot, I headed down the street to the Voting Center to drop it off. To keep everything outside and socially distanced, they’ve closed off an entire block outside City Hall and set up tents instead of doing everything indoors the way they normally would.
