E-Day: An end to political emails?

Aside from some closure, voters like Steven and Jean Rubin are looking forward to an end to the nasty debates that have crept into seemingly every form of communication this election season.

And it’s not just email forwards. Steven Rubin, 62, said someone in an online alumni group he belongs to started sending him a barrage of political messages through the professional social networking site LinkedIn.

“Our country is in a very negative, nasty state,” said Jean Rubin, also 62, after the couple cast their ballots at Old Greenwich School Tuesday afternoon.

Jean Rubin did say that the negative campaigning affected her vote, but she didn’t feel comfortable sharing her political views — and who she voted for — with a newspaper reporter. She felt it was one of the last bits of information people could keep private. One peek at the Internet these days, and it’s obvious a lot of people don’t feel the same way.

“Maybe I’m just old fashioned, she said.

Lisa Chamoff