Terri Sewell , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having screwed up an absentee ballot, was rescued by the patient ladies at his polling place as they provided the kind of hand-holding the keeper’s ineptness requires.
The simple routine of voting was the highlight of the keeper’s day; and the knowledge that dedicated poll workers are responsible for similar opportunities across the country on every election day, refreshed his faith that the system will prevail, even in the face of perverted attempts to destroy it.
The keeper remembers once covering an election in a rural polling place where poll workers were only mildly distracted by the thousands of honeybees that had claimed one of the town-hall’s walls to build a very active hive. Both the poll workers and the bees went about their business to make for a very successful election day.
The take-away for the keeper and his ilk, is that in the interest of all kinds of pollination, bees and poll workers are essential to life as they know it.
