In two-and-a-half weeks, we will all go to vote – in fact, a lot of folks are already voting, in states with mail-in or early voting. But November 5th is the big day, when the contest between the Republicans Donald Trump/JD Vance and the Democrats Kamala Harris/Tim Walz will at last be decided. We hope, at least, that November 5th will decide it, and that when we awake on November 6th, it will all be over but the shouting.
Here’s an election curiosity, though: In the 2024 election, the last person to cast an in-person vote for president will be an Alaskan – specifically, an Alaskan on the Aleutian island of Adak:
On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president, continuing a 12-year tradition for the nation’s westernmost community.
The honor of having the last voter in the nation…
