My net connection was down for a week, and it's still very twitchy now. You know how that goes!

BTW, WA's "top two" primary just went to the US Supreme Court. I expect it to get struck down given the comments from the justices. I refused to vote in the partisan primaries even before I stopped voting altogether, so it doesn't affect me either way. The farce of a primary should be eliminated altogether.

Regarding the defensive argument for voting: I'm neither here or there about the morality, but experience has convinced me that it is futile in any case. I've seen too many voting shenanigans to have ANY confidence whatsoever in the accuracy of any vote count. In addition, even if the vote is accurate and the PTB loses, they have a nasty habit of ignoring or working around the vote anyway.