As a matter of full disclosure, I voted in the US presidential election. While my absentee ballot was cast more than a week before polling day, my mind was made up months before that. Not that my mind was closed to the various twists and turns that took place in the final weeks of the campaign; I simply did not need a leaked video to convince me that Donald Trump was a boor or an FBI investigation to flag up that Hillary Clinton might be a criminal.
In fact I voted for neither. I wrote in my preferred candidate for president; not someone terribly famous on the national or international scale but a fiercely intelligent, honourable, deeply Catholic man, and a published expert on American constitutional law to boot. In fact, I have never voted for either of the two main candidates in a presidential election. Likewise, I have always registered to vote as an independent, rather than as a republican or democrat.
