It's Election Day, and here in Alameda County, the Sequoia e-voting machines are actually not the touch-screen models I'd feared. No, we're filling out huge-ass paper ballots with ink, and then feeding them directly into chirping electronic readers ourselves. So, we've got nice paper trails should we need them, no one is cursing at misaligned screens, and the biggest problem at my polling place was that one of the election workers had misplaced some of the "I Voted!" stickers.

I haven't been this hopeful on Election Day in a long time. Let's hope this day is the turning point we've been waiting for. Power to the people!