When we take into account the ease of voting, the apathy of the Baltimore City voter is truly staggering. We have eight consecutive days of early voting, then 13 hours to vote on the main primary day itself, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. You have only to show up at the polling place, know where you live and spell your name right. If you are still too inconvenienced to show up in person, you can obtain an absentee ballot and mail it in. The Board of Elections will not question your reasons for voting absentee — in a technical sense you should have a good one — nor should they.