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October 20, 2004I did my part, America...
It's a quarter past five in the morning, and I just awoke on my bed, fully clothed, with all the lights still on. I knew I was tired, but not so tired that I wouldn't recall having migrated to the bedroom in the first place. Last thing I remembered, I was intent on finishing off the last few episodes of "Hellsing"; the TV and DVD player are still on, too.
Apropos of nothing, I exercised my civic duty on Monday afternoon, schlepping down to the Registrar of Voters and casting my absentee ballot via touchscreen machine. I had to wait perhaps ten minutes for a machine to become free, and since I had already marked my choices in my voter information pamphlet, the voting itself took all of three minutes. At the end of my Herculean efforts in representative democracy, I was given a sticker--"I voted electronically today"--which I promptly lost. Too bad, too, as I was going to scan it and use it as a graphic for this entry. It was cooler than the standard "I voted today," but not nearly so cool as the "I disenfranchised 50 million voters today" stickers I imagine the Supreme Court had printed up for themselves in a moment of private whimsy back after deciding the outcome of the 2000 election.
Anyhow, placing my votes two weeks early was right convenient and ensures me an easier day of it on November 2. I just hope the Bush campaign wasn't waiting until the last minute to roll out a cogent argument as to why I should vote for him, as it's too late to change my vote now.
BwahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, that's rich! As if! As if!
Of course, I won't be laughing nearly so hard when a second-term Bush decides web entries like this one qualify me as an enemy combatant and sticks me in Gitmo sans legal representation for the rest of my natural life...
Posted by patrick at October 20, 2004 05:32 AM
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