Ballot Day!

Today is the day.  Ballots for the election have arrived.  Today is the day I decide to exercise my democratic rights diligently and with due respect for the process.  I can only hope my fellow citizens in this democracy will do the same.  After all, we may be defendants before some of these judges someday (doh!), and we may even have to defend our jobs or our pensions if the democratically-elected decision-makers make a decision someday in the near future (Nevada's budget deficit is so desperate that they are already asking my dear wife's workplace to cut back dramatically in 2011).  So the day is here -- do I dare do what is demanded of me by my desire for democracy to flourish?  Do I dare disturb the powers that be?  To answer that question, I ask myself, would a decent human being only check D on the designated spot in the ballot?  I can answer yes, or more to the point, definitely!  (Unless, of course, I happen to disagree.)