I voted. It feels good to get it done, even if my son is going to "cancel my vote." [View all]

One of my happiest memories as a child is when my parents would drive back from voting - they always took me along - and my mother, a swing voter, would tell my father that she "canceled his vote," by voting for the Democrat.

In the good old family tradition, my oldest son announced he would be "cancelling my vote."

All three of us here at home, and the son away who will be voting in PA, are voting straight Democratic for all candidates, from Biden/Harris on down, but I voted against all three ballot initiatives on the NJ ballot, including the one that would legalize marijuana.

I don't believe that people should go to jail for possessing, smoking or even (privately) growing it, but I don't want legal pot stores here.

My son was a little upset with me and gave me the "alcohol is worse than pot" lecture that one hears, and while I'm not sure that the premise of that argument is wrong, I retorted that pancreatic cancer is worse than breast cancer, but this doesn't support an argument to make breast cancer easier to get. (To my knowledge, he has never smoked pot, but I don't want to make it easier for him to try.)

(He didn't like that.)

But the important point is that both my wife and dropped our ballots in the special drop boxes NJ has distributed, and there's two more votes for Joe and Kamala, and for the rest of the Democratic ticket, and two more to go from my family, my vote cancelling son and my "no pot on the ballot" son in PA.

I feel great!