Tuesday's visit to the local polling place looked refreshingly typical to me — the standard primary election math was in play (more poll workers than voters), the mode for hair color was white, and the earnest candidate advocates out front reminded me still again of that old Mitch Hedberg joke about people passing out flyers:
"What they're saying," observed the late comic, "is 'here, you throw this away.'"
The poll workers, for the moment, looked the same as well: seasoned, helpful, dutiful, patriotic. None tried to suppress my vote, but then, I'm an old white guy, not the intended target of some 250 bills in 27 states designed to root out so-called voter fraud. A nationwide legislative effort was apparently necessary to fix what isn't broken because the last president didn't like the outcome in 2020.
