Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Freedom
OK. I admit that voting is important. I admit that even if the vote you cast won't ever turn an election in any direction, it's the best way to participate in the system and send a message. And the message to send this year is that we will not stand by while our government reduces The Constitution into a soggy piece of toilet paper. We must refuse to be scared. We must refuse to accept incompetence and arrogance. We must vote.
I'll join you guys next time.
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Amen.
But this time around, enjoy the 15 minutes you don't spend on line today at the local elementary school.
My excuse is that I refuse to wake up a half hour earlier to get to my voting place before catching my train to work.
I am waiting until our governments catch up with current technology and allow us to vote online at our convenience - so, I'm thinking maybe by "Decision 2064"?
My wife is going to vote, but she's worried they won't let her in since there's a sign posted at the voting place (a synagogue, in this case) stating "strollers not allowed".
Can someone tell me if we have a class-action lawsuit here? Isn't this blatant discrimination against mothers with small children? What about the fact that she's not Jewish and they won't let her into their precious place of worship to practice her constitutional right to vote? - It's religious persecution, I tells ya!
Let's go do something about this injustice! Power to the people, bitch! Who's with me?
On second thought, fuck it. It won't really matter anyway. And New Jersey is probably the most corrupt goverment in the nation. And I'm too jaded to care. And I'm really sleepy...
Anyway, isn't Friday Night Lights on tonight? Cause if it's pre-empted for some bullshit election coverage, I swear I'm gonna- OK, I gotta calm down again. Sorry.
I like that George Michael song, by the way.
I'm pretty sure in New Jersey you can now vote by absentee ballot without any actual reason. So you could do that next time and not miss your train.
No strollers allowed at the polling place? That seems like an odd move to disenfranchise the soccer mom set. What's wrong with strollers? When I was a kid, they even let you come into the voting booth and cast a fake ballot (though it was Chicago, so they may have counted it). Yeesh.
I don't know about you kids, but election day is my favorite day of the year. And not just because it means I don't have to go to work til 2 pm. Woohoo meaningless acts of democracy!
Woohoo, indeed.
While waiting all day to cover local elections, I watched the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" about the vulnerability and inaccuracy of the Diebold electronic voting machines.
Apparently the cards they use to count the votes have an executable code (read: program capability) on them which anyone can hack to change how the votes get recorded. And there would be no physical record of inpropriety.
One of the princincts in some Florida county in 2004 recorded 16,000 NEGATIVE votes for Kerry.
Supposedly Jimmy Carter wouldn't be able to certify a U.S. election as he does in the Third World because our elections aren't supervised by independent bodies.
Reports all day coming from precincts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Denver about voting irregularities and vote suppresion. People in poor areas where machines don't work or record their vote properly. Long lines. Scare tactics.
Say what you will about your sacred vote, but if they don't get counted, we don't live in a democracy.
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