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Glad I could be helpful.

For you interested readers, though, I want to detail just a couple other aspects of this story:

Firstly, you might have noted I used those evil anti-union FedEx folks instead of our much beloved family friendly unionized shipping alternatives like UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. The reason is simple: The guaranteed delivery times I was quoted from UPS and the USPS weren't fast enough. Only FedEx fit the time-requirements for getting Rachael's ballot to her fast enough so that she could return in time to be counted. With the fate of our nation potentially resting on this ballot, I knew that the most pro-union choice I could make was to get this ballot delivered on time so that we can elect a President that will respect the rights of working families for the next eight years.

Secondly, if you add up the costs that major campaigns are willing to spend per vote these days, paying the express rates to ship this ballot (with so many good votes on it) was the right tactical choice, as well as the right (little d) democratic choice as well. Go democracy! Go! Fight! Win!

Thirdly, while I was at the county elections office getting Rachael's ballot, the woman who was in line next to me who had come to pick up a ballot for herself was told that the county had no record of her registering to vote this summer, as she believed that she had done. It was surmised that she might be a victim of fraud. As a new Oregon resident she was now well past the new registrant deadline and is disenfranchised from voting in Oregon in this election. Yes, of course I suggested that she check with her elections officials in her home state to see if she might still have an option of voting absentee from back home, but the look in her eye told me she had given the system a chance and the system had blown it and she was done. Ay, carumba.

Final thought: Vote early, America. It could be a long night.

Hi rachael forgive me for corresponding to you through this web page, but it came up in a search on my family name of Vorberg. If you don't mind, I would be interested to hear from where your name Vorberg originated. Is it from your mother or father? And from where did it come? It is an unusual and uncommon name which when I was a child the only people with this surname were our relatives. ours came from our father who was from Hamburg, but came to England after the war. We have all resided here since then, but we do have Vorberg relatives throughout hamburg still. Hope to hear from you soon janet Griffiths (nee Vorberg)