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Advocate for Oregon's Vote-by-Mail. All absentee ballots, all the time.
Republicans hate it, all fair-and-square like that, (and love it when all other groups are deprived and only GoonOPerators get absentee ballots). Objections by the totalitarian Party is good enough endorsement testimonials for Vote-by-Mail.
Get an absentee ballot. It gives you 2 weeks to mark it and return it. The 2-weeks gives you advance notice about any defraudment of your registration status. And the 2-weeks gives you days to vote without missing work and still functional being house-bound or hostaged by a freak snowstorm / windstorm / soldier-stormed.
Which gets to the point here: After midnight last night, while outdoors moongazing on a 4000-ft hillside, I smelled snow at a distance somewhere 2 or 3 days out from the northern West Coast.
And this morning I had a premonition about a freak (Midwest?) snowstorm on Nov.4, speaking of suppressing turnout at the polls. Which is the latest in a string of premonitions in me since Labor Day; most having to do with winter weather forecasting.
I foresee an inordinately cold winter, (North America and Europe, and corollary, consequent, conditions around adjoining regions), and half-of-normal preciptation, which means dry. The episodes of it are 1) a freak early (before Thanksgiving) deluge -- snow northerly, rain southerly -- and then 2) drought Dec. through Jan.; and 3) late snow all of Feb. and 4) a wet March that 5) delays crop planting until the first of April and weeks late for many crops.
So this morning's premonition is, essentially, the refinement thought: What if my previously foreseen "freak early heavy snow in Nov." was to turn out to be Nov. 4?
What we can do about it, this year or any election day, is: Vote by U.S. Mail. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor gloom of night keep those ballots from their appointed vote tally.
