Monday, November 01, 2004
I’m so nervous about tomorrow!! You’re all going to go out and vote, right?
(Oh and NaNoWriMo started today, too)
Comments
Voted at 7:30 this morning, because as you said, it’s What We Do…and because it matters so much this year. I rarely feel as good about this country as when I’m in that voting booth.
I know a lot of Canadian who would love to participate in your little election. I also know they would love to vote the son of Satan out of office.
I am ashamed to admit it, but in the 13 years I have been eligible to vote I have only voted once.
Today makes the second time I vote. This election is the first time I have been so jazzed about exercising my right to vote. Yay! Vote! Everyone!
Here in Aussie Land we don’t have any problems with voting. Voting is compulsory and done with pencils and bits of paper with checkboxes on them. Granted, the system is a lot more complex (we don’t vote directly for who we want to be Prime Minister — we vote for the people who we think should be in Parliament and then the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament becomes PM), but we have multi-lingual instructions!
Which is why I was puzzled for a moment when the message “Vote or Die” (or similar) kept popping up in the MTV awards and Oprah.
Yeah, Aussie land roxors!
How could GWB win? puzzles me something cronic.
Yep Desi. Same basic system here in Belgium (though we are replacing the paper and crayons with screens and light-pens).
You chose the wrong guy! It sounds like your system in Australia was based on our system in the UK, Desi — which makes sense historically, I suppose.
It’s as flawed as the US electoral system, though, because as with the electoral college system not all constituencies, and therefore voters, are equal. A “seat” where 1,000 people live is worth the same as a seat where 1,000,000 people live. Is it like that in Australia too?
Time for proportional representation.
I just want to say, as an Ohioan, I apologise, even though it is not my fault. I got up early, and drove 35 miles back to my home district to vote. Then I spent 7 hours in the rain canvassing door to door for ACT to get people out to vote. I tried, I failed, I’m sorry.
I hope you have a good 2005, and I hope you come back to us during it, sometime.
No, I am not voting.
But then I am not an American so … ^_^
Good luck with the NoWri part.