Election Day
Nov. 2nd, 2004 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseDid my civic duty this morning and got the voting over with.
Husband and I went to the normal polling place only to find out that it had moved. There was another guy in a Jetta who did the same loop but headed off with purpose, so we spun stones and slalomed off entirely too fast to follow him down the hill. Turns out that the new polling place was the municipal building, so that was a short drive.
A woman toting a baby bucket didn't understand how to use the machine and hit "cast vote" after voting for prez was complaining when we walked in about how hard the machine was to use. She was unhappy that she didn't get to vote for anyone else and felt that you should vote individually instead of picking everyone and hitting the button once. However, the instructions were posted right next to the machine. My thought was "no, the machine is fine, how about YOU Read The Fucking Manual."
Then I considered that this kind of not RTFM'ing and then whining about it ("It's not my fault! It's the machine's fault!") is exactly the kind of shit that's going to mire the outcome of this election in judicial mud if the outcome is anything less than a landslide. Sigh.
Husband and I both voted for the write-in candidate for township committee, since the Republican candidate seems to be widely regarded as a turd. This charming fellow blocked a landing pad for a Medevac helicopter because it would be adjacent to his $8 million estate. I'd like to think that if I had an $8 million estate that I'd be happy to see the heli go up and down, because it would mean someone was getting help.
Anyway, get out and vote. Vote for the Communists if you don't like either candidate. Just vote.
Husband and I went to the normal polling place only to find out that it had moved. There was another guy in a Jetta who did the same loop but headed off with purpose, so we spun stones and slalomed off entirely too fast to follow him down the hill. Turns out that the new polling place was the municipal building, so that was a short drive.
A woman toting a baby bucket didn't understand how to use the machine and hit "cast vote" after voting for prez was complaining when we walked in about how hard the machine was to use. She was unhappy that she didn't get to vote for anyone else and felt that you should vote individually instead of picking everyone and hitting the button once. However, the instructions were posted right next to the machine. My thought was "no, the machine is fine, how about YOU Read The Fucking Manual."
Then I considered that this kind of not RTFM'ing and then whining about it ("It's not my fault! It's the machine's fault!") is exactly the kind of shit that's going to mire the outcome of this election in judicial mud if the outcome is anything less than a landslide. Sigh.
Husband and I both voted for the write-in candidate for township committee, since the Republican candidate seems to be widely regarded as a turd. This charming fellow blocked a landing pad for a Medevac helicopter because it would be adjacent to his $8 million estate. I'd like to think that if I had an $8 million estate that I'd be happy to see the heli go up and down, because it would mean someone was getting help.
Anyway, get out and vote. Vote for the Communists if you don't like either candidate. Just vote.
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Date: 2004-11-02 05:27 pm (UTC)