Halloween was awesome, visiting friends and Ryan’s family was great. Pictures will come soon. But just in case I don’t get back here, I want to remind everyone to VOTE tomorrow. Whoever you are supporting, make sure you get educated on the choices you have and make your voice heard!

I’ll be going before work tomorrow to try to avoid the super-huge lines I’m sure will be there after work. Plus, our polling place is only 2 blocks away. I can walk! ;-) Let’s all do our part to make sure that we have a say tomorrow. And if you can help someone else have their say by maybe giving them a ride to the polls, or watching their kids while they go vote you should do that too (although it would be a pretty cool experience for older children to see their parents vote).

I don’t know how widespread this will be – especially after a law was passed restricting it after the 2004 election, but if you see something going on at the polls that doesn’t seem right – people being intimidated, lied to, whatever, you can call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report it and get advice. But I heard on MPR this morning that after the 2004 election, Minnesota passed some rules about challenging – mostly, you can’t bring in people from out of state to challenge a person’s right to vote, and the challenger has to have “personal knowledge” that the person they are challenging isn’t elligible. So hopefully it won’t be a big issue here. But for those of you in other states – be on the lookout. No one should feel intimidated into not voting if they are elligible.