I voted early in the DC primaries yesterday. The actual election day is April 1. I ho 
pe that all of the fools lose. There were so many candidates that I felt as though I were voting in a foreign country.
The polls are open until 7 pm, accommodating working people, and also on Saturdays though not Sundays.
For mayor, I voted for a novice progressive. I am so fed up with pols.
For the rest, I chose as many woman progressives as I could. There are so many Democrats in DC that instructions and sample ballots for Republicans were clumped at the end of the voters' guide as an afterthought.
In DC, when checking in, all you have to do is sign your name and it will be matched with the signature scanned into their database. You have your choice, at least at main headquarters, between ES&S iVotronics and opscans. Yikes, I didn't notice the name brand. My bad. ES&S? The two-sided opscan scanned both side at once. I watched my number, 70, added to the total. I wondered about the large number of machines compared to the small number of voters evident. Five DREs. One scanner and many booths for us. No great expense involved there.
In other news, the New York state legislature, both houses, have finally voted in favor of handing over all of their electoral votes during presidential years to the candidate who amasses the most popular votes. That makes 165, or 60 percent, out of the needed total of 270 electoral votes to carry through this improved method of choosing our president. New York's decision awaits Governor Cuomo's signature. He has so far expressed no preferences either way. You go, Empire State and others to change our system the way it needs to go! Onward, hope!
