Thursday, October 23, 2008
Election
So I'm going to be an election monitor in Indiana. I'm pretty excited. I'm hoping I get some kind of badge to wear and -- though I know there's little hope of this -- possibly even a taser. I think that would probably be the most effective way to get people to use the touchscreen properly.
It turns out that Indiana has a whole bunch of voting laws so I'm cramming like crazy. Stuff like you can't wear your Ralph Nader t-shirt to the polls or use your Hawaii driver's license as identification. And I think there may be a literacy test or something, I'm not sure.
You may wonder why I'm monitoring in Indiana as opposed to right here in Chicago. The answer is simple: there have never been any voting irregularities of any kind here in Chicago. I know this because we put it to a vote and even the deceased agreed that everything was simply hunky dorey. Democracy is totally the best.
So I'm going to be an election monitor in Indiana. I'm pretty excited. I'm hoping I get some kind of badge to wear and -- though I know there's little hope of this -- possibly even a taser. I think that would probably be the most effective way to get people to use the touchscreen properly.
It turns out that Indiana has a whole bunch of voting laws so I'm cramming like crazy. Stuff like you can't wear your Ralph Nader t-shirt to the polls or use your Hawaii driver's license as identification. And I think there may be a literacy test or something, I'm not sure.
You may wonder why I'm monitoring in Indiana as opposed to right here in Chicago. The answer is simple: there have never been any voting irregularities of any kind here in Chicago. I know this because we put it to a vote and even the deceased agreed that everything was simply hunky dorey. Democracy is totally the best.
