another week goes by

[jennlk]

A return email from Ingham Elections led me to emailing the SCS clerk. After a couple of days of phone tag, I stopped by their office this morning and chatted with their election coordinator. They just did one of these "non Opt-in" elections last year, so they're much more familiar with how it works than we are. It's not going to be quite as easy as giving them all the information, but it's less complicated than BC feared. They'll provide ballots/mailing envelopes/etc, and we'll issue ballots. They can 'receive' the ballots, but the way the database is set up they cannot 'issue' AV ballots. I think the worst part of it is that we have to hold office hours the weekend before the election, and someone has to be at the office until 8pm on Election Day. BC will attempt to make it more complicated than that, but hopefully DC and I can defuse that a bit.

Rehearsals are less sight-reading and more working on things. Livingston is a bit more ambitious than usual, and it's disconcerting some members. Farmington's repertoire is less ambitious than usual, but that means that we need to be better at wringing the music out of it.

In the "department for minor annoyances", my Costco card is somewhere 'safe'. It's easy enough to get a temporary card, or even a new card if I can't find the current one, but it's annoying. I've checked wallet, purse, trouser, and jacket pockets. Next up is the pile of reusable shopping bags in the car, and then the floor of the car. If I still can't find it, I'll get a new card (and then the current card will show up, because that's how that works).

Comments

[minnehaha]

I am really concerned about this year's elections.

K.

[jennlk]

This particular election is a low stakes, non-partisan bond issue for the County Special Ed program. (OK, probably not low-stakes for the County or their special ed students, but the wide-spread impact is negligible ....)