Maybe I am a one-issue voter

I've gradually come to realize that there is something I look for in a candidate for an office, or more precisely, something that will disqualify a candidate seeking an office from getting my vote, no matter what his or her positions are.

Cruelty.

If you're cruel to others, and you look to me for support, you're looking in the wrong direction. For those who see cruelty as a virtue? Forget it.

I reserve the right to be subjective on this point.

I'm fairly certain it will influence how I vote in November, though it left me in a bit of a quandry as to how to vote in the New York primary - something I didn't realize I had a voice in as an absentee voter. Thankfully, there was a way for me to express my opinion that both remaining candidates in the Democratic primaries deserved to be heard: one can vote for delegates individually. Twelve delegates were on the ballot: six women, six men, six pledged to Bernie Sanders, six pledged to Hillary Clinton. (Each had three men and three women pledged.)

When I looked at others' attempts to blatantly restrict the rights of women, I figured that women needed a stronger voice, so I marked down all six women as my choices for delegates.

My ballot is currently in a mailbox at the Hellenic Post office on the corner of Karneadou and Ploutarchou streets in Athens.

Pardon my rambling.