Jodi's political career begins

Jodi and I arrived home from the District Ministries Summit in Dover, DE late on Thursday night. In our pile of mail was a set of letters: one for Jodi, and one for me, that stated that we had each received a tying number of votes for committeman and committeewoman, respectively.

Why? How did we each receive votes, and land a tie? Simple. I wrote in each of our names in the May elections.

The letter stated that we could come to the courthouse on Friday and draw lots to see if we won. Jodi had to work, but I went up on my lunch hour to see the political process in action, and to hopefully begin my own political career.
Not too complicated...there was a pouch decorated with the good old stars and stripes, and for each person tied for the office (there were several ties from several areas) there was a ping-pong ball for each person numbered to match the amount of candidates tied. Whichever candidate represented that drew the number one ball would win the election.

After several rounds, it was finally my turn. There were two of us, so two balls were placed into the bag. I stepped to the front of the room, thrust my hand into the pouch, and drew out the number....two. I lost. Deflated, I walked back to my seat knowing that this would not be the year I would change the world through politics.

Then, as quickly as my joy had faded, hope returned....Jodi might get elected! I listened as they began extracting names for committeewoman. There were only two in this race, as well. Jodi's opponent drew the first marker...a TWO BALL!!! JODI WON!

Anyway...a couple of lessons to be learned here:
1) If there's ever a vacancy in an office, know that I will write in a name.
2) Beware...it could be your name that I write, right Jodi?
3) After all of these years, and the sophisticatd and technologically advanced age that we live in, when it comes to really important stuff like elections: we stick with the ping-pong ball method.

Amazing.