by Kerry Dougherty
This may be my autumn of living dangerously.
Heck, I may roller skate down a flight of stairs. Without a helmet. I may drive on the interstate. Without a seatbelt. Shoot, I may even give gas station sushi a try.
If I don’t make it till Election Day? Who cares?
I’m voting by mail.
My vote will count, whether I’m dead or alive!
Yep, conservatives and libertarians are late to this game, but it’s time we all joined in. Gov. Glenn Youngkin launched SecureYourVoteVirginia.com in July, urging Republicans and Independents to do what Democrats did to great success in the last election:
Bank those votes.
That way, unforeseen emergencies – illness, car problems, hurricanes – can’t disrupt your plan to get to the polls.
Mail-in voting makes a difference. And there are 45 days of it in Virginia this year. Beginning today.
Consider what happened in the whisker-close Kevin Adams vs. Aaron Rouse special election in January to fill the state senate seat Jen Kiggans vacated when she was elected to Congress.
Rouse, a Democrat, won. With about a 1% margin or just 696 votes.
Yet Adams took the in-person vote on Election Day and even the early, in-person voters.
Adams was slaughtered, however, in the mail-in vote. Continue reading