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The Franchise Continued
ID? Damn straight. Here you go…
Within the last hour my youngest child exercised his right to vote for the very first time in the Ohio primary. At 17, he has the ability to vote on party choices for the November general election. He was the only under-age voter in our precinct to take advantage of the opportunity. The poll workers were thrilled to have a young man come into the voting station. Half of them were crushed to find out he was declaring as a Republican.
This fall he will vote absentee because he will be at King’s Point at the USMMA.
Before we went I quizzed him on the stances of the candidates and his answers showed he took this as seriously as I could hope for.
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Congratulations! It seems you did your job well.
A good man, he is, in many ways. No surprise there.
He is a standout.
I hope the other half were smirking with glee.
Quite a franchise, EJ. Well done.
Well done!
We had a couple of election cycles when most of the kids were around, and election time and election day were always an event. We have an Aussie friend who became a citizen seven years ago; he was nervous about the test and we practiced often, turning it into a drinking game. After we kept the process up with the propositions on all the ballots.
Congrats to your son, your wife, and you.
I would love to see a video of that . . .
Congratulations!
How much in advance was this “drinking game”?
The apple stayed close to the tree…..
Well done, EJ.
I think it’s highly appropriate to show up at the polls with a wicked hangover.
Wicked? Wish you were dead kind, or just one more?
Congratulations to your son, especially for the USMMA.
What business is it of theirs how he “identifies?”
Ohio has a closed primary. You don’t register as a party member you just declare at the polls what ballot you want to vote on.
He reports just after the July 4th holiday. I expect a completely self-centered and totally unwarranted post about it sometime around the 10th.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy just might be the best school of seamanship in the world. Navy sailors hold it in great respect.