Comments | deathcookie: Operation Clark County

deathcookie

Operation Clark County

Oct 13, 2004 19:18

Operation Clark County is basically the Guardian's way of giving non-American citizens a chance to influence the American election. You enter your email address, and are given a name and address of a random resident of Clark County, Ohio, an incredibly marginal area with regards to voting. (One name and address per person, so nobody gets deluged ( Read more... )

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celestialweasel October 13 2004, 11:55:41 UTC

Or, it may make them feel deeply suspicious, stalked or offended as you've got no guarantee over whose address you receive. If someone wrote to me with a 10-page letter on how I should vote Tory, they'd probably get a mail bomb back, but I can see why some people would be enthused by this.

Yes quite, this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lame. Another reason I am glad I defected to the Indie.

blackgarden October 13 2004, 13:07:20 UTC

I have no idea where Clark County, Ohio is.

I'd be so miffed if some website, even if it's a national newspaper, was giving out my name and address. And, I don't need outside help making up my mind, whether it's from some foreigner or a domestic lobbying group. It makes me want to kick stuff.

deathcookie October 13 2004, 16:27:38 UTC

I entered my address just for a laugh and to see who I'd get, and ended up getting someone who lived in Springfield. Which amused me.

ex_pipistre October 14 2004, 01:35:34 UTC

Do the participants in the US get a say in this? It seems like middle-class liberal wanking to me as it does nothing but make smug Grauniad readers feel like they've done something.