VOTED!

Outgoing ballot envelope
on top of incoming one

RantWoman is on a tear to deal with PAPERWORK, taxes and other things. Taxes this year are in the realm of "Good problem to have," except for the part about figuring out whichever online tool RantWoman decides to wade through.

Other PAPERWORK depends on tax information and whatever testing of a new portal RantWoman decides to wade into. Joy. And temptation to procrastinate commenting on any number of topics roiling the infosphere.

But there RantWoman's ballot is on her desk screaming "DEAL WITH IT."

Deal with RAGE about the Supreme court, Section 3 of the 14th amendment, the lesson in post-civil-war reconstruction history that we are all dealing with. RantWoman actually recognizes complexity about names on ballots, party machinations, conventions, and different state standards. RantWoman just thingsk SCOTUS has handled all of this badly and is glad for some persistent teams of voting rights lawyers tackling SOME associated issues.

Deal with it: RantWoman also is particularly inclined toward scorn for the most junior member of SCOTUS, the one crammed onto the court a month before #DonTheCon was resoundingly voted OUT OF OFFICE: dialing back controversy seems EXTREMELY beside the point when one party is happy to place at the top of the ticket a guy who tried last time violently to overturn the will of the people. RantWoman also has RAGE about various other dimensions of campaigns. NONE of that solves the immediate problem of how to deal with the WA state Presidential primary.

Deal gratefully with ballots instead of caucuses which, the times RantWoman has gone, have proven an absolute nightmare on accessibility and aggravation grounds.

Deal with a wish somewhere for a statewide list of every county in WA with opportunity to vote in person using accessible voting methods, the location and hours of in-person early voting opportunities. 

Wait. Wait. EARTH TO RANTWOMAN.

Check out: sos.wa.gov .see the following link for County elections offices

County Elections Offices in Washington State | WA Secretary of State

This page has a nice combo box where people can look up county office location, hours, and contact info.

Choosing the county you want in the combo box is a better idea than just letting JAWS read the county names off the Google map. 

Urk! RantWOman sometimes gets impatient and makes bad assumptions based on my visual experience. RantWoman did that here and then decided just to try the Immersive reader in MS Edge and that cleared things up nicely. Once RantWoman found the info with the immersive reader, she also went back and did the same thing with JAWS and it worked fine.

There are other ways to find this info on county websites, but this statewide view is really nice.

Deal with it for the mental lint RantWoman is accumulating about how different states handle accessible voting practices, which states are doing accessible online voting, glacial evolution of enthusiasm by the WA Secretary of State to tackle this statewide in WA...

Deal with it for the line in tiny print on King County ballot envelopes where one is supposed to share an email or a phone number openly on the outside of an envelope.

And FINALLY, deal with the actual ballot which RantWoman thankfully has enough eyesight to spend her daily allotment of tiny print tolerance handling on her own.

--a desire to make a protest vote and irritation that by the time national elections reach WA, protest options have more than once already dropped out.

--The thought of just picking a party and then sending in a blank ballot.

--a number of OH HELL NO names.

--temptation to game out "well if the vote went this way...what about that way...?

How has RantWoman actually dealt with this???

RantWoman prefers to remain a woman of mystery with the following caveat:

There are LOTS of ways to make an impact on elections. Grab one and go for it.

And for an extra bonus rant on behalf of everyone currently asking RantWoman to opine about AI

1. Sight dependent readers who do not have a screen reader, hover the mouse over the photo for commentary about AI in RantWoman's phone camera.

2. Every dang platform RantWoman regularly interacts with is currently asking RantWoman some version of "help us improve our search" or "Wouldn't you like to try our AI?" NO! RantWoman would like to g-d get done the work she is trying to do. MAYBE LATER.

3. Reminder: RantWoman has enough vision to deal with Blogger backend. RantWoman strives to make posts  accessible, usable but cannot vouch for Blogger as a useful platform for people who are totally blind. One quirky note: RantWoman frequently uses photos from her phone. This works fine when creating the post but when RantWoman reopens, the post automatically reopens in HTML mode. In order to resave and see the photo, RantWoman has to click some button to accept whatever Blogger does to satisfy itself about the resulting HTML code. RantWoman would not mind having this fixed but has not taken the time to complain in the appropriate direction about the problem.