West Coast Voting

Voting for president on the west coast can be anti-climactic. When voting in the past as a California resident, I would usually not get a chance to vote until the evening after work. Because of time zones, I was voting even after voting booths in huge numbers of states had already closed. I remember getting home from voting only to find out that the media was already projecting a winner. The perception was that at that point, my vote didn't really count simply because I voted too late.

Blue-Eyed Wonder mentioned that we Oregonians lose out on the experience of physically going to a voting booth. But a nice side-effect of this is that I got to deposit my ballot yesterday—early enough to know that as the media projects how the popular vote lays out tonight, my voice has truly been heard.