Decisions, decisions, decisions. And then an election

  We will cast our ballots Saturday. Alas.
 Voting early is a bad idea I have excoriated for years. Who knows what will come up between now and Nov. 3? Not in the presidential race. We know what we have there, and The Don is unlikely to go to Damascus between now and then. But there are local races, judicial retention votes and constitutional questions on the ballot as well.

 Just this week we learned that one candidate had not paid taxes for five years! His reply is that his opponent still owes the government $27,000. Voters in that district will need more information so they can decide which evader can best represent them.
  Our newspaper, a shadow of its former self, is just getting around to starting endorsements, as if the election won’t be until Nov. 3. The usual race-by-race coverage seems to be beyond its current capabilities. It’s all Trump-Biden all the time because it doesn’t take many reporters to do that. Even though I have been out to pasture a long time I still know some of the players, but if you never heard of these people and see their names on the ballot, how do you make up your mind? Good heavens, you won’t find much you can trust on social media.
 There are six constitutional questions, including two put there by the Legislature at the governor’s prodding. More tax cuts for old folks. And you wonder why people move to Florida when they retire.
 The others are murkier. My favorite is the one that would provide a “citizenship requirement to vote in Florida elections.” Who could be against that? Nobody, actually.  As the League of Women Voters said, the amendment would have “no functional or financial impact on elections because the constitution already mandates that U.S. citizenship is a requirement.”
 So why is it there? To remind Trump voters that the Democrats want to let undocumented aliens vote and go on welfare. And, who knows? ETs may come in their flying saucers and want to vote for Biden because he is one of theirs.
 Here are the things we took into consideration in voting “by mail”:
 1. Usually there are so many early voters they stand in long lines, and we breeze through on election day. But voting in person is still in a closed room, with poll workers as well as other voters, and Trump voters without masks.
 2. In addition, we may have to pass through a line of Proud Boys who are armed and impolite. If they carry fishing tackle as well as assault rifles, they are perfectly legal, as their pals have already proven here.
 3. If we vote by mail, it may already be too late to have them delivered by the Trump Post Office, which is almost as much a hot mess as the Trump Census. And the Trump Justice Department, for that matter.
 3. We can deliver our ballots to a drop box at the Election Supervisor’s office.  I pass it every time I go grocery shopping. And Saturday we will be right across the street  for a funeral. We know a Republican lawyer in a nice suit will challenge our signatures, though. So our votes won’t probably be counted. But we will survive. In 2020 even that is a lot to hope for.