My superbowl Tuesday

I took my 16 year old daughter to the polls yesterday. we shall call her Minnie-me. Personally, I think that Election Day should be a national holiday, it was really nice seeing a lot of parents with kids in tow as they were filling out their ballots, our district cancels school for election day. 

Minnie-me holds pretty much the same political views as I do, my son is a budding republican-conspiracy theory guy..so don't think I brainwashed my kids into having the same views as I hold. While the oldest holds a lot of the same human rights beliefs as I do, he seems to have a different view as to how the government should work. I respect that. 

One thing I have told both of them repeatedly is to participate in the democratic process. 

Part of that process is protesting. Stand up for something. March on Washington at least once in your life. Question your government as well as authority whose power has gotten out of control.

Protest peacefully 

Every time I vote, I, respectfully refuse to show ID, it is my way of protesting what I feel is a poll tax. In my state, the law is; the only time a voter needs to show ID is the first time they register/vote. I want to know if the poll workers know that and respect it, no I do not give the poll volunteers a hard time, I tell them I forgot it and go from there.  

I have never had a problem. I obviously do not live in Texas. 

A big race in our state was the race for Governor, I did not like either choice. I protested by doing a write in on my ballot. I was unsure what I was going to do until the moment I started filling out the ballot....

I wrote in my cat

                                                                     This is Khan

                                                              This is Khan in a bag

                                                        This is Khan in another bag

                                                             This is Khan in a pot

                                                  Khan in a pot is about as useful as the

                                                  highway to nowhere our governor built.

Anyways

Not only did I vote for my cat, I Star Trekked my ballot. 

I wrote on the bottom, where the write-in square was located;

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

That was my peaceful protest.

It actually may have rendered my ballot uncounted, but that really doesn't matter today, no one lost or won by one vote. 

Around 8pm, I hunkered down with the political talk shows

There was a lot of swearing at the TV last night. My team lost.

The writing is on the wall and our state....and country, now has to live with the decisions that were made yesterday. 

There was a lot of swearing at the TV last night. 

But, I stood for something, even if I came off as the crazy cat lady who loves to reference Star Trek.