<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Subscribers,<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hello again! Thank you very much to the two readers who brought two errors in the Guide to my attention; I try to be highly accurate. The attached <i class="">corrected </i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">documents (same document in two formats)</span> contain those <b class="">two small corrections </b>and a few other minor changes. There are no dramatic changes, but if you were on the line about a prop., you might want to review that entry. </div><div class=""><div class="">
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Back in March (or whenever you subscribed), you got a full set of instructions — but who can keep track of things over the last six months? </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is a self-service emailing “list”! You can get an entire email of information about how this list works by simply sending an email containing the one word <i class="">help</i> to <b class=""><a href="mailto:dariens_ballot_guide-request@lists.sonic.net" class="">dariens_ballot_guide-request@lists.sonic.net</a></b>. (To <i class="">unsubscribe</i> to this list, send the word <i class="">unsubscribe </i>to that same address. You’ll receive a confirmation email.)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> </span>I don’t expect to email you again for almost two years, for the next primary elections — and then only if<i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""> </i>there are propositions on that ballot. By that time, I hope the elections process will be much healthier. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Regardless of your candidate or proposition preferences, I hope we can agree on<b class=""> the</b> <b class="">importance of protecting the right of each eligible person to vote</b> and of <b class="">an accurate count of all the votes</b>. Those of you who have been receiving my ballot guide for decades know that I don’t usually step beyond the realm of the propositions. However, because I am alarmed at the current situation, I provide here <b class="">a link to <a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/3275cbb2501/11d9ba9e-b0c8-4527-a8d5-c707d9ad49de.pdf" class="">a guide to nonviolent responses</a></b> to what I refer to as “election emergencies”. If you choose to download that PDF, you might want to then take a look first at the last two pages, which offer <b class="">numerous other useful links</b>. (I certainly understand if you’ll unwilling to click on an unknown link! Feel free to contact me for more complete background info.)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>May we all be safe and courageous, Darien</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>