{"id":2831,"date":"2020-03-23T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2020-03-23T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:10:40","slug":"what-about-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/what-about-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"146\" data-attachment-id=\"2832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/what-about-the-vote\/images-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images.jpeg?fit=346%2C146&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"346,146\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"images\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images.jpeg?fit=346%2C146&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images.jpeg?resize=346%2C146&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images.jpeg?w=346&amp;ssl=1 346w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images.jpeg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 85vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption>Election Day &#8211; 1944   Norman Rockwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ohio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio cancelled the Ohio primary on March 17<sup>th<\/sup>, literally at the last minute.&nbsp;&nbsp;The voting machines were already at the polling places and the ballots were put out.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eight hours before the polls were to open, he went to Court to stop the election, and lost.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Judge ordered the election to continue, asking the important question:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cif not now, then when?\u201d A couple of hours after that, DeWine and the State Director of Public Health used their power to declare a health emergency and shut the voting down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Democrat, waiting to finalize the nomination process, I voted early on the Sunday before the election.&nbsp;&nbsp;My vote has been cast, but not counted, waiting on same day voting to begin.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are probably millions of votes sitting in the eighty-eight County Board of Elections in Ohio, absentees and early voters.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I absolutely supported the Governor on his decision.&nbsp;&nbsp;With the corona-virus crisis, asking folks to line up to vote would be dangerous.&nbsp;&nbsp;And asking poll workers, many of them in the \u201chigh risk\u201d age category, to sit and converse with thousands of random voters would be unconscionable.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But now we are faced with a problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;The corona-virus crisis is not a hurricane that will blow through and be over.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s not a wildfire that will quickly destroy and move on.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s not an earthquake with predictable after-shocks that dwindle away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It now looks like the \u201cdescription\u201d of the corona-virus epidemic is a series of waves.&nbsp;&nbsp;How this first most dangerous wave hits is the crisis of the moment.&nbsp;&nbsp;It may or may not overwhelm the American healthcare system, and thousands, maybe millions, may die from lack of appropriate care.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are going to know in the next month or so, how bad that first surge will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now they predict that there will be a resurgence of the virus sometime later on, a secondary wave, not as terrible, but still requiring closings and social distancing.&nbsp;&nbsp;And if that second wave hits in October nearing November, what will DeWine, Ohio and the rest of the nation do about the general election; the Presidential election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the judge might say, \u201cIf not then, then when?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experiments in Government<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was putting out the flood-damaged trash this morning, I ended up in a discussion with a neighbor about the difference between a democracy and a Republic (yes, this neighborhood can be strange).&nbsp;&nbsp;That difference has been used to justify many un-democratic actions in America, from racial and partisan gerrymandering to the Electoral College.&nbsp;&nbsp;But one of the good things about our Federal system, fifty sovereign states in one sovereign nation, is that there can be fifty laboratories in government.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colorado led the way in legalizing marijuana.&nbsp;&nbsp;Montana decided that the vast distances of their state required virtually unlimited speed limits.&nbsp;&nbsp;Michigan used to have an eighteen-year-old drinking age when I was in college (there\u2019s a long story about a road trip, sloe-gin and horse back-riding there somewhere).&nbsp;&nbsp;California set higher pollution standards creating a \u201cCalifornia gas\u201d different from the rest of the nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nebraska has a one-chamber legislature.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are a nation of fifty different experiments, all in search of their unique way of fulfilling the American \u201cpromise\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Solution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So the solution to our voting problem has already been created.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is already a state where there are no lines, no polling stations, no direct contact with poll workers are other voters.&nbsp;&nbsp;In Oregon you register and vote by mail (<a href=\"https:\/\/sos.oregon.gov\/voting\/pages\/voteinor.aspx\">Oregon<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;And Oregon is consistently in the top ten states for voter turnout.&nbsp;&nbsp;Seeing the success of the Oregon effort, Washington and Colorado have already copied the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman Rockwell was the great painter who documented Americana in the mid-twentieth century.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is \u201cAmerican\u201d for neighbors to lineup at their local school, or church, or firehouse and vote for their government representatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the right suffragettes were named for, and that Martin Luther King marched for.&nbsp;&nbsp;Going to the polls and casting your ballot is as American as \u2013 you know \u2013 Norman Rockwell.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we\u2019re now living in an America where, at least temporarily, lining up to vote risks lives.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are asking our most at risk citizens, the elderly and the immune-compromised, to choose between exercising their right to vote, and their keeping right to remain healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, Ohio already has \u201cunlimited\u201d absentee ballots.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyone can ask, and receive that ballot, and mail it back in.&nbsp;&nbsp;So let\u2019s go the rest of the way.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of having to ask for an absentee ballot, let\u2019s just send everyone an absentee ballot.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then they can be mailed in, and we can vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;Everyone is included, everyone has a say, and everyone can stay healthy.&nbsp;Oregon, Colorado and Washington are already showing us the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It answers the question:&nbsp;&nbsp;If not now, then when?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I cannot in all good conscience steal a line without attribution \u2013 especially from one of my favorite balladeers &#8211;Tracy Chapman \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7hCoAF2G6wQ\">If Not Now<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio cancelled the Ohio primary on March 17th, literally at the last minute.&nbsp;&nbsp;The voting machines were already at the polling places and the ballots were put out.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eight hours before the polls were to open, he went to Court to stop the election, and lost.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Judge ordered the election to continue, &hellip; 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