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Trashing my ballot

Sun., Oct. 30, 2016

When my ballot arrives in the mail, it’s going into the garbage can, or maybe I’ll mark it return to sender. I can’t, in good conscious, vote for either one of them. One belongs in a rubber room at a state hospital while the other belongs in a women’s federal prison folding laundry.

As for everything else on the ballot, I really don’t care. I’m disabled and poor and there isn’t a politician, an initiative or a referendum that will ever change that.

Michael Buyanovich

Airway Heights

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