If you don't want to get the virus, and if you want your vote to be counted fairly. Please bear with me while I explain that belief:
Here in Boone County, Missouri, before the March 10 primary, the last time I voted in person, you have to fill out your ballot and then take it to a machine that counts the ballots and stick in the slot and the machine sucks it in. I always feel nervous as hell when I do that, because I don't trust those machines as far as I can pick one of them up and throw it. How do I know what goes in within the electronic innards of that machine is counting my vote fairly and accurately? I don't know. I just have to trust it. What other choice do I have?
On the other hand, a Boone County elections official who works in the county clerk's office explained their procedure for opening and counting mail-in ballots. That official posted the procedure on a local community message board online. S/he said that each ballot is opened in the presence of one Democratic and one Republicon observer, and then counted, also in the presence of those same observers. That sounds to me like the mail-in ballots are hand-counted. If that is true, I trust that procedure MUCH more than voting in person at the polling place.
I am not sure I can trust the mail, though, so when I get my ballot, I am going to fill it out right away and hand-deliver it to the county clerk's office. I voted by mail in June and August, and I used the online tracker to see that they did receive my ballot, but regardless, this time I'm going to hand-deliver it.
-- Ron
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