Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

I Voted 26 Times This Week. That’s Too Much.

Going to the ballot box is good practice for other kinds of political action. But it shouldn’t be so hard.

October 23, 2020 at 11:37 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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I voted!

I almost always vote on Election Day, at my local polling place, even though here in San Antonio we’re now allowed to vote anywhere in the county. This year, however, I was more eager to avoid the lines during a pandemic, and so when my internet went down on Wednesday I went off to the polls early.