Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Glad to have you with me. The phone number is 87797977975.

I want to jump to a phone call quick because I don't want Andy to have to wait long about this and I think I can take care of this quickly.

Andy, welcome to the program.

Yeah, hey, Eric, thanks for taking my call. I had a quick question with Election Day coming up here next Tuesday, I guess it is. For the last five or six elections, both national, local,

you name it, statewide, I've voted early, I've gone to my local polling place, presented my ID,

and I guess filled out, I guess it's an affidavit that I am who I am, and then they give you

that piece of paper and you present it to get your punch card.

Well, each time I've done this, I finally realized last time I voted, it says at the top of this

piece of paper, absentee ballot.

And my question is, why does it say absentee ballot if I'm there in person? Just because I'm voting

early, it's absentee? Yes, that's it. Early voting is actually no excuse absentee voting.

And they haven't really updated the language.

So around the country, and Andy, this is why I want to get to you because all of you around the country, you may have municipal elections and not know about it.

I know some states like Virginia have statewide elections.

There are local elections, for example, here in Georgia across the state.

I did not realize in my community there's

actually a vote on a tax increase. And I had no idea, sleeper issue. And I pay attention

to this stuff. But this is, Andy, I wanted to start with this. And thank you for the question,

because it is election time. an election is next week.

I know in Atlanta, they're having mayoral elections.

In Virginia, there have been gubernatorial elections.

Most states have municipal and tax elections right now.

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