Election Day in Georgia

 When I was a teenager in the Navy, I promised myself that whatever else I did with my life I would be a voter. I became something of a fanatic. No matter how small or insignificant the election, I voted. And so I’ve been voting in elections for school boards, water districts, justices of the peace since 1976.

I thought, in moving to Georgia, I’d broken that streak. We left Texas before early voting began. Election Day in November came before we met residency requirements in Georgia.

We became eligible to vote before yesterday’s runoff election for U.S. Senate, which made national news. So I didn’t miss the election entirely.

This collection of notes is not about politics. But if you’re interested:

• Dekalb County, my new home, has a population of about 750,000. The percentage of residents that identify as Black is 54. The percentage that identify as non-Hispanic white is less than 29.

• The county vote for Raphael Warnock over Herschel Walker was 87 percent to 13. Warnock carried the county by 200,333 votes, 236,448 to 36,115. The statewide margin was 97,597 — 1,817,465 to 1,719,868. Dekalb was one of those big suburban counties that tipped the balance of solidly Republican rural counties that supported Walker.