Voting Right

I live in a dry county. That means no liquor can be sold here. Of course, a few feet from our county line, we have a liquor store and a first-last-chance bar.

One year, we had a county-wide vote about allowing liquor and beer sales here. An elderly woman wrote in to our local paper about the election. She was in her 80s and registering to vote for the first time. She wrote that in the past, her recently deceased husband and she would have voted on opposite sides of all issues, thus cancelling out each others votes--so they never registered to vote.

But the wet/dry election that year had caused her to register to vote--and she was going to vote for buying liquor in our county because she did not want to have to drive out of the county to buy rum for her rum cakes that she made every other Christmas! Not exactly a deep reason for voting, but there was some logic in it.