Hey Graham,

What a great deal that is. Voting is so much fun (I'm kinda vocal..."Take that you rogue!" as I mark my ballot) but voting kilted is pure joy.

A couple years ago I did have an incident. My polling station is at a Methodist Church in town. Out in the parking lot was a Navajo lady in full Traditional Navajo dress who was doing research for a college paper she was doing on voting. She was standing just outside the signs for the 75 foot limit on campaigning. When I finished voting I stopped to talk with her.

While we were chatting, her in full Navajo garb, me in full kilt turnout, a very sourpuss old lady came charging out insisting that we were too close to the building. The voting area was inside and the doors closed but she was some sort of a poll watcher. We told her we weren't even talking politics. She didn't care. She insisted the 75 foot limit sign was too close to the building and we'd have to move back. So we did.

Then she went inside and got a guy with a tape measure to reposition the 75 limit sign. Turns out the sign we were beyond was about 175 feet out already and she had to move it way in toward the building. That was fun to watch.

Looking back, she was more than likely reacting to our "different" dress or was an outright racist towards the Navajo lady...but no way to know...maybe just a control freak.

Ron