My absentee ballot arrived in the mail yesterday and boy is it complicated. I’ll sit down eventually, with a pot of coffee, and try to figure the damn thing out, but I can imagine stuff like this is a real barrier for some people. The envelope is full of computer-card type cards, in various colors, with little holes to punch out. And what appear to be several instruction booklets. I just glanced at them last night and quickly shoved them back into the envelope, promising myself to study the material soon when I was less tired.
I’m not sure whether Washington State is a hotly-contested state in the upcoming presidential elections, or not. I have heard that Kerry has pretty good chances there. Just in case, though, I thought I’d announce that I will be taking offers to sell my vote(s) during the next week for the local and national elections.
i’ll buy your vote off of you with a GMAIL ACCOUNT! how’s that? given what our absentee ballots were worth last year, i think you may be getting the better deal if you take me up on it. act now. my operators are standing by.
dude, i still have 6 extra gmail accounts to give away myself, so you’ll have to do better than that.
i filled in my absentee ballot yesterday… the san francisco ballot wasn’t complicated per se
According to latimes.com’s poll tracker (where you can amuse/horrify yourself with various electoral scenarios), in Washington it’s currently Bush 45%, Kerry 47%, Nader 1%, 7% Undecided. Sounds like a swing state. Vote!
(In my state, Kerry leads by 14% – I haven’t seen a presidential campaign ad yet! Of course, you probably haven’t either.)
Your state – insobriety?
Actually, the “Democrats Abroad” are quite active here, hitting up on people at showings of Fahrenheit 9/11 to register to vote, etc.
I don’t know if John Kerry could get on the ballot in the state of Insobriety.
Ah, being remotely located from Washington State you missed the whole brew-haha (wonder where that word came from?) about the state switching from open primaries to ones where you can only vote for one party per primary, hence the confusing and possibly multiple ballots (our county just had one ballot but with color coded areas and if you colored out side your color coded area you are toast.
Have fun.
P.S.
The primary election was two days ago, so you probably don’t need to bother sending in the ballot.
“dude, i still have 6 extra gmail accounts to give away myself, so you’ll have to do better than that.”
ha! well, i was trying to say that your vote was worth about as much as a gmail account. when i first was able to vote i was so excited about it and The Possibilities of Democracy and all that, but then i saw absentee ballots tossed out with such speed last year, not to mention the blunt edge of the electoral college and the whole “every vote actually DOESN’T count equally” concept it drove home, and oh, it’s all so bleak and sad. i’m voting, don’t misunderstand me. but it’s less exciting than it was. and having those extra gmail accounts is, to a much lesser degree of course, the same. i mean, i’m very happy to have MY gmail account thank you thank you eeksy, but almost everybody i know now has more gmail accounts than they know what to do with. so in a way they’re “worthless”. see the parallel? yes, yes, of course you do.
um. just don’t forget to vote, that’s all i have to say.
He’ll spend so long bartering for a decent trade that he’ll forget to post it.