It just occurred to me that, as a newly re-registered Pennsylvania voter, I have to plan when to go to the polls Tuesday. I must have been unconsciously waiting for a ballot to show up in the mail, like it always did in California, where I was a permanent absentee voter (along with about half of the state). Gotta say that, after once finding it anticlimactic when I didn’t vote in person, I’ve gotten pretty used to the convenience of always voting from home. Why don’t we do it in Pennsylvania?

(My first vote: 2002, Ed Rendell for Governor and Dan Wofford for House – voted absentee from college)