I Get to Cast My Vote Twice

According to the directions of the live-outside-of-the-country-absentee-ballot process, if you don't receive your ballot in the mail within a reasonable amount of time before the election, then you can do the write-in thing.

Eager for my New York vote to be counted even though it won't matter given the dark blueness of the state, and due to a lack of faith in the mail systems of Australia and the U.S., I filled out and

posted my write-in ballot the day before yesterday. And yesterday? I received my absentee ballot. So I get to vote again.

The rules also require that you do this, and assure you that only the actual ballot will be counted. So not only did I get to physically write Obama's name, now I get to fill a bubble and do it again. Not such a hassle.