There are two good things about growing old: you get new eyes through cataract surgery and you get to vote by mail.
That's right. Registered voters, age 60 and over, may vote by absentee ballot, according to Tennessee state law.
Hard to believe those in Music City managed to get something right. Most of the time they're devising new ways to promote guns or prevent women from exercising their reproductive rights.
I suppose they figured older folks would vote Republican. Of course, in the state that elected Marsha "I've got stars in my eyes for Donnie" Blackburn over Harvard-educated, moderate businessman Phil Bredesen, the majority usually votes Republican.
But that doesn't mean Dems should sit out the coming presidential election. We may not have a chance to beat Trump in the reddest state in the land of the free, but the national popular vote may figure in the election outcome when we have in the White House a President Strangelove who may be difficult to evict if he loses.
So seniors, call the Hamilton County Election Commission and request an absentee ballot application. You must have voted previously in person to qualify. The only other condition is that you be 60 or over.
Once you receive your application in the mail, fill out the short form and return it to the Election Commission. In mid-September you will receive your ballot in the mail.
Make your choices and put the ballot in your mailbox.
Here's hoping neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of Trump will stay our courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Carolyn Mitchell