voting

[easwaran]

A variety of events conspired to make it very difficult for me to vote. First, voting day was the day I flew back down to LA from Berkeley, and I didn't notice this fact until the day that was the deadline for the secretary of state to receive my vote-by-mail form. But fortunately, I managed to get standby on an earlier flight (Matt had to go to

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[arrowedumbrella]

I have vague memories of receiving pamphlets from the government with propaganda-like writing for and against various propositions. The language was so bombastic I never really felt I could trust it. Then on top of this, I would get postcards from Schwarzenegger informing me of which way he would like me to vote, which always felt kinda sleazy.

[arrowedumbrella]

Schwarzenegger never sent me mailings. The propaganda is useful because you can figure out what groups support or oppose each measure - I always vote against any group with the word "taxpayer" in their name.

[easwaran]

Oops, that was me.

[arrowedumbrella]

Oh that's true, I never thought of using the propaganda that way. (Then again, I wasn't a citizen at the time, so I couldn't vote anyway.) I could have looked up the groups that supported the measures as a proxy for identifying the intentions of the measures.