The Right To Vote #303 By Hank Silverberg Early voting started in Virginia on September 20th. I waited one week to make sure there were no snags, and along with my wife, we cast our votes this past Friday. My philsophy, why wait? We know what the candidates stand for by now. We had our "October surprise" this past summer when Joe Biden dropped out. The next five weeks will simply a repetition of the previous two months. There has been some criticism of early voting, but I see no problem with it. We cast our votes on machines, the kind that scan a paper ballot and won't be opened and counted until the polls close on November 5th. It also takes in the paper ballot as a backup. Having said that, I am a bit miffed at the local Board of Elections in my home county, Spotsylvania, Virginia. The early voting site has been in three different locations in the past three elections, and each time they have been a bit harder to find. This year