First, go to your computer. Find the sample ballot identical to the one you will have given to you when you go to the polling place. You can find this by completing an application form. It may be available on the computer or it may have to be mailed to you.
Now, you vote the first time. You can do this over the next day or two. Take your time. Enjoy some coffee, tea or beer or wine. Sit down and reflect. There will be a few long choices (some with over 100 words - and up to 15 “ands” and several “ors”). You can think about some of these for a day or two, even pick up the phone and play auditor, or ask questions on Facebook or Twitter or Whatever.
There may be some positions you have never heard of and a lot of names you have never heard of. But now you have time to think about all this, even get with your friends and ask questions, get a conversation going, get a dialog, talk about your problems.
Finally, you vote the second time. This time in your polling place. You are ready! Even with a completed ballot you have worked on for the past day or two. AND you can make this vote REALLY represent you, AND you will move through the voting process quicker than anyone else who has not already voted for the “first time”.
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