Exercising the Franchise (not a euphemism)
Nov. 4th, 2008 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyGot up at my usual 6a, threw on some clothes (Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant 40 Anniversary Massacree Tour t-shirt) and drove to our polling place. At 6.05 the line was out the door and down the block, so I went back home and went through my usual morning activities. I left the house again about 8.40 and went back. No line outside, but there was a huge line for the L-R section of the sign-in table. Perhaps dividing the book into five sections, rather than four, might speed things up next time. Took about 20 minutes to go through the line, less then five minutes to fill in the ballot: light rail yes, home care yes, gambling changes yes.
I cast one reluctant Dem vote, for Chris Koster, and one protest Republican vote, against my Congressman, Emanuel Cleaver II, for his vote on FISA and his pathetic excuse for doing so, which was that since Sprint employees lived in his district, he didn't want the company to possibly go bankrupt. Asshat. Sprint will be dead within seven years tops, irrespective of its participation in illegal wiretapping and data mining.
NPulsifer is coming over to watch the results, much beer will be consumed no matter what happens. Check out Making Light for liveblogging all night long.
I cast one reluctant Dem vote, for Chris Koster, and one protest Republican vote, against my Congressman, Emanuel Cleaver II, for his vote on FISA and his pathetic excuse for doing so, which was that since Sprint employees lived in his district, he didn't want the company to possibly go bankrupt. Asshat. Sprint will be dead within seven years tops, irrespective of its participation in illegal wiretapping and data mining.
NPulsifer is coming over to watch the results, much beer will be consumed no matter what happens. Check out Making Light for liveblogging all night long.