Isms: Views on life in rural America

By the time this edition of SAM hits your mailbox, election results should be completed and canvassing boards will have or will be scheduled to meet to verify results.

I did my civic duty and cast a ballot. Did you? I haven’t missed an election since I hit that magic age of 18.

I also perfomed a second civic duty prior to the election and it’s an experience I encourage any registered voter to undertake. After several discussions, over multiple years, about election processes, with Antelope County Clerk Lisa Payne, I leapt at the chance to fill out a deck of test ballots.

The rules were simple:...