If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

-- Emma Goldman

Yeah, we checked.

One person actually mistook Tuesday's Richmond County sales tax election as an opportunity to vote in Columbia County.

"Somebody came in and said, 'Hey are we voting today?' " said Columbia County Registration Coordinator Nancy Gay at the county Board of Elections office. "I said, 'No sir. That's in Richmond County.' He said, 'OK. I guess I need to go tell my wife she's right.' Then he walked out, and that was it."

(And what husband hasn't been there?)

FATHER'S DAY IDEA? Give Dad a copy of the new book about former major league pitcher Lou Brissie , of North Augusta. As most of you know, Mr. Brissie overcame severe injuries during World War II to pitch very well in the American League.

Better yet, go to the Augusta Museum of History from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Mr. Brissie will be signing the book -- The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie . (They will be available at the museum shop for $20.)

The book was written by Ira Berkow , a Pulitizer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times.

TRAVEL TALES: Bill Dean sends a postcard from Alaska. Larry and Donnie Hodges are celebrating their 40th anniversary in Maine. Frankie Nevins , of Evans, is in Colorado. Charles and Mary Reeves , of Harlem, are in New Hampshire. And Thomas Kraak , of Aiken, is in Arizona. All sent postcards, and you can, too. Just mail them to me at The Augusta Chronicle, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, GA 30903-1928.

TODAY'S JOKE: A boy was assigned a paper on childbirth and asked his mother, "How was I born?"

"Well honey ..." said the slightly prudish mother, "the stork brought you to us."

"Oh," said the boy, "and how did you and Daddy get born?"

"Oh, the stork brought us too."

"Well how were Grandpa and Grandma born?" the boy persisted.

"Well darling, the stork brought them too!" said the mother, by now starting to squirm a little.

Several days later, the boy handed in his paper to the teacher who read with confusion the opening sentence: "This report has been very difficult to write due to the fact that there hasn't been a natural childbirth in my family for three generations.