(Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
In less than a month, early voting Nebraskans will cast ballots for the next president and a slate of other leaders who will make decisions that affect our lives.
Voting, unimpeded and, we hope, informed, is how we do things. And it works … even when some try to undo the results and subvert our democracy as they did in January 2021.
The calculus should point to the weeks between now and Nov. 5 as a time of contemplation for civically responsible “undecideds,” those coveted minds that apparently remain open. Some believe that given the din and drone of a presidential campaign, “undecided” is a myth.
However one feels about late-stage political bet hedgers, the big show is almost upon us. Nebraska, like at least 17 other states, has changed the way we do things since 2020, the last time we lined up all the presidential marbles.
Because of changed circumstances, I will be casting an early vote at a county election office. Normally, I like to show up at a polling place to greet my neighbors who volunteer there as we all participate in the democratic process on both sides of the voting booths in churches, schools and fire halls.