All last week, I worked with some really good people to try to get a few extra drop boxes for mail ballots.

Under state law we can turn in mail ballots by hand instead of using the mail. They must be turned by the voter and ID must be shown.  Very few people did it because you could depend on the mail.  Now, not so much. Many people who are over 65 or handicapped always voted in person anyway because they enjoy it. Now, with Covid, not so much.

We have one turn location where you can turn in your mail ballot.  It is a busy county building where all the workers and volunteers are running the election.  First you have to stand in line to sign into the building to get past the front door. You temperature will be taken.  Then you stand in line again down a long hallway where the county health department is and sick people are coming in. The building is a former WalMart so think of going in the front door of a giant WalMart and walking back to the far right corner. That’s where you’ll turn in your ballot and show your ID.

According to the Google it takes 59 minutes to drive from one end of our county to the other, not during traffic.

So, to help old people and sick people, we asked each county commissioner to set up a county annex or use their office as a place people could turn in their ballots. Three of the four were perfectly agreeable and even wanted to set up a couple more because that would be helpful to old people or handicapped people.  Yes, it would. Let’s not try to kill off all the old people by making them stand in line for hours or disenfranchise them because their ballot got lost in the mail.

It worked like a charm and this afternoon, our county judge announced the new locations and thanked the county commissioners, the election officials, and everybody who worked hard to get this done.

An hour later, along comes Greg Abbott.

I’m coming after him in two years with intent to barbeque.

Sumbitch.