Comments | sylvie: Election day tomorrow!

sylvie

Election day tomorrow!

Nov 03, 2008 16:55

Remember, Americans - if you don't vote, you've got no right to bitch if the guy you dislike more gets elected.
Google has a nifty maplet to tell you where your polling place is.

Comments 8

quirty November 3 2008, 22:50:27 UTC

Very cool! I'm going to share this link :)

Although I AM voting.... celticshrew November 3 2008, 23:19:15 UTC

...the right to vote also gives me the right to choose NOT to vote, if I have found none of the candidates acceptable.

Re: Although I AM voting.... sylvie November 4 2008, 00:41:10 UTC

True, but not-voting only really makes sense if you find the candidates equally horrible (or equally fabulous, if at some point there are ever two /good/ candidates running for president). I have a problem with people who have actual opinions about the candidates, don't vote, and then bitch when the candidate they wanted loses (having been on a college campus in 2004, I heard a /lot/ of bitching from non-voting young liberals).

Re: Although I AM voting.... celticshrew November 4 2008, 01:08:03 UTC

I'm with you on that, though I've heard both non-voting liberals and the "I'm going to Vote My Party, because That's What We So." republicans both in 2000 and 2004.

Not harming stupid people makes me feel old.

jinii_chan November 4 2008, 09:49:17 UTC

NOT TRUE! I can bitch about the President-not-of-my-choice if the absentee ballot system fails--WHICH IT DID, of course! ARGH! DDDDDX

sylvie November 4 2008, 13:28:22 UTC

Very true! You have every right to bitch because you tried to vote but the system didn't work as advertised. I voted absentee because I wasn't sure when or where I'd be moving, but the system is less swamped in Maryland, or maybe not-being-abroad helped.

The other problematic issue is the long lines at places with too few booths. Rachel Maddow did a segment on how that was essentially a new form of poll tax, because a lot of people flat out can't afford to take 6 or 8 hours out of their work day to vote.

jinii_chan November 4 2008, 14:08:41 UTC

Rachel Maddow did a segment on how that was essentially a new form of poll tax, because a lot of people flat out can't afford to take 6 or 8 hours out of their work day to vote.

Are you serious?! That's disgraceful!

jinii_chan November 4 2008, 14:14:34 UTC

Errr... What is disgraceful, of course, is the part about the long wait to vote--not the part about her doing a segment on it.... ^^' *sighs* It's late over here; forgive me. XD