Vote today!
There are many great reasons to vote. You get to visit places like churches and high school gymnasiums you might not go during the course of an ordinary day. You get to talk to all sorts of interesting people, especially women of a certain age, with whom you might not ordinariliy converse. And, best of all, you get to have that dizzy feeling like you did back in junior high–you know, the one where you’re waiting in line for some unloved, mildly deformed secretary drone to look you up on a roster and give you your homeroom assignment, and all you can think about is, “What if I’m not on the list? What if I’m not on the list?” They’re all gonna laugh at you, Carrie, indeed.
But perhaps the best reason to vote today is to defeat Amendment 1, an ill-conceived, short-sighted, reactionary piece of legislative drivel that, if passed, will edge Louisiana ever-closer to usurping Alabama’s title (under George Wallace, at least) of Laughingstock of the Country. Please, do us all a favor: grab a cup of coffee, find your state or federal ID, schlep down to the polls, and punch those buttons!
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Of course, I’ll be voting against this amendment, but there is no doubt in my mind that it will pass with flying colors. And, I thought that Louisiana already was the “laughingstock (sic) of the nation.”
When voting against a bigoted, redundant amendment and for new school board members, it’s always helpful to have a voting machine at your precinct.
Actually, I wasn’t sic:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=laughingstock
After yesterday’s vote, however, I am most definitely sick.
Greetings from Seattle.
I’m not laughing. I read about the missing voting machines in a small article in the NY Times. I haven’t been able to find any further information (will the voting result stand)? Could someone tell me what will happen or direct me to an article on the subject?
Thanks
Drury
Depressing that 78% of an election with a 27% turnout (i.e. approx. 21% of registered voters) gets to dictate a change in constitutional protections. At least I’m not living there anymore and so won’t hear the inevitable crowing from the “winners.”
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