In the last round of local voting, the elderly woman worried about her husband's health.
Both retired, they trudged to their voting precinct to cast their vote in the runoff elections.
She told her daughter that she was thinking about not taking her hubby to vote the next time because it took a toll on him during one of his periodic health episodes. The daughter had them apply for a mail-in ballot from the Cameron County Elections Office so they could fill out their votes in the general and local elections from the relative comfort of their dining-room table.
Today, the election packages arrived. Since the Brownsville Independent School District is also holding elections, each of them received two mail-in kits. Confused at first on how to open, fill the out, and return them, they called their neighbor to read the instructions.
"Fue muy facil," said the woman. (It was very easy.)
The package contained instructions on the process, a message from Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos, a carrier envelope, a mail envelope and, of course, the ballot.
They each filled out the ballot with their choices, inserted it into the smaller ballot envelope, and then stuffed that into the carrier envelope to be mailed so their postman could pick it up and send it on its merry way to elections administrator Remi Garza's office at county elections.
And so the process of electing our public officials begins. The elections office is processing applications for mail-in kits up until October 28, according to a staffer there. They are mailing the kits in batches, she said.
The mail-in and early-voting ballots are the first votes counted on election day.
As far as the elderly couple who filled in their ballots and saw the postman carry them away, they were asked by one of their sons who they had voted for in the national and BISD elections.
"Ese es un secreto, mi'jo," the woman replied.
2 comments:
I voted for Victor Cortez, the next sheriff of Cameron County!
My 83 year old relative got her mail in vote about a week and a half ago. I asked the same thing and was told "don't ask me, haven't you heard about SECRET ballot". I will try early voting. BISD and national elections are of high interest eventhough ALL BISD candidates are the hispanic version of Donald Trump and the national election is a lost cause either way.
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