There are two drop off locations, the two offices of the Supervisor of Elections, which hemorrhoids to get to, and there is no place to park if you do. That’s assuming you can drive, because there is no public transportation down here. They have changed the laws so that you can’t have more than a few absentee ballots in your possession, so the old method of dropping them off at a nursing home or assisted living facilities is now illegal, as they can’t just put a box in the office and take them to the SoE office once a week. The mail is pretty much all that’s left for the people who really need absentee ballots because of mobility problems.

Most of those are probably initiatives, which I remember from San Diego. They used punch cards when I was there, so I’m very familiar with a ‘butterfly ballot’ that starred in the 2000 election. I spent more time actually voting there, than any other place I’ve lived.

No one wants to take any responsibility for doing the job they were elected to do. Everyone is risk adverse. Even the people in inherently risky businesses want the government to bail them out when they get into trouble.

I bet ya that our ballot is longer than yours. It looks like this year’s will be *three* pages front and back! But California’s lege is even more spineless than Florida’s, apparently, ’cause half the stuff on there is stuff the Lege should have voted in, ‘cept nobody in the Lege wants their name on it because it’s necessary but maybe not popular in their district…