Feb. 3, 2008 at 12:35am

Cast Your Presidential Ballot Monday. It Still Matters

I just received my ballot in the mail. 

Take a look at all the stuff inside.  Its a puzzle of sorts.

Wow.  What an array of different things.

Washington uses the caucus system for democrats so the vote for democrats doesn't matter right?  That's what the media and political experts tell us.

They would all be wrong.  It does matter.  Even though its technically a "beauty contest" the ballot vote will be reported by the media and still effect the viability of the candidates.  The Washington delegates might consider the vote as well.  Plus, it far more substantive than reading about each jab the candidates give each other.

It seems strange that there are no alternative parties and that the Auditor made pictures of the two dominant parties.  The two animals make it look like a parody.  It seems like such an endorement of the party system. 

Totally blurred.  Sorry.  However, it does show how I am supposed to pledge myself to one of the parties to vote.  Washington voters do not like this. A very litigated issue.

I've done it.  I have place the ballot in the "secret envelope" and then into a larger one.  It will go into Monday's mail.