Ballots for the Nov. 3 general election were mailed out the other day. All across Spokane County, voters have now received their ballots and carefully put them aside in a safe place where they will be forgotten until Nov. 4. Call me unpatriotic, but I still can’t wrap my mind around the whole notion of mailbox democracy. It’s so impersonal. I liked the old system. I liked walking up to Franklin Elementary School. I liked signing in. I liked waiting for a crack at one of those clunky push-pin voter contraptions. Maybe I’m imagining this, but I seem to remember there also being complimentary cookies/Doug Clark, SR. More here.

Question: Would you prefer to vote-by-mail or to cast your vote at a polling place?