On a side note, I somehow disappeared off the voting lists between the 2004 and the 2006 midterm elections. My “provisional ballot” didn’t count for anything more than a learning lesson for the volunteers working the polling station. My wife was on the list, but despite my place of residence, work, and everything else never having changed (with the exception of a few dollars difference in annual earnings) between those two points, I had been removed. I even showed them my voter ID card, my driver’s license, social security card, my security officer id card, my debit card, and 3 credit cards to prove who I was. So my wife got to vote that day in ‘06, but i only got to do the dry run!

I joked to a democrat friend of mine that he probably put the plan of action behind a vast left wing conspiracy to alienate me since I had voted for Bush in the 04 election and the election commissioner was of the democrat party. He of course retorted that after years of a vast right wing conspiracy, they were going tit-for-tat, and I was one of the odd men out! LOL