tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post4532915901036184581..comments2024-03-28T10:08:38.560-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: VotingRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-79569511749578933502012-05-09T10:54:46.242-04:002012-05-09T10:54:46.242-04:00'Round here, they seem to want to restrict vot...'Round here, they seem to want to restrict voting to people who don't have jobs. Or maybe they mean something else, by closing the polls at 6pm.<br /><br />I showed up at 6:04, expecting to do my bit to cast Richard Lugar into the abyss of joblessness (as well as cast a now-meaningless protest against Mittens, and possibly do some actual good in a couple of local races), and was surprised to be turned away.<br /><br />I mean granted, every previous election I've voted in since moving to IN has been when I was either unemployed or a full-time telecommuter, so I voted during the day and didn't notice when the polls closed. But where I grew up, they always closed at 8pm. When I watched election returns on the TV news, they were always based on polls closing at 8pm local time pretty much everywhere. It never OCCURRED to me that a guy showing up at 6:04pm would be too late.<br /><br />Oh well. At least Lugar's headed for the abyss even without my help, as it turns out, and Mittens was always destined to win regardless of what I did, and it seems that in all but one case the marginally-lesser evil won the local primaries too.lelnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600824544185328505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-89805689959759719262012-05-08T15:10:43.888-04:002012-05-08T15:10:43.888-04:00I figure voting is the only version of Arguing wit...I figure voting is the only version of Arguing with idiots that at least lets you fight them to a draw instead of losing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-91336113217276115392012-05-08T10:50:33.183-04:002012-05-08T10:50:33.183-04:00There's a difference between people who don...There's a difference between people who don't vote because they think it's futile and those who don't vote because they consider it an act of aggression. One doesn't have to agree (I can sort of see the argument, but consider it stretched to the breaking point, and it leaves out self-defense), but it is at least principled.<br /><br />I vote in self-defense on the local level, but I'm voting my conscience at the top of the ticket. After Johnny Quote Constitution Good-Government, I'll never hold my nose again. <i>That</i> was truly a wasted vote.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-54803729203836736752012-05-08T10:11:36.760-04:002012-05-08T10:11:36.760-04:00Ogden is an ass and deserves to be soundly beaten....Ogden is an ass and deserves to be soundly beaten.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-64044695402120950852012-05-08T09:34:41.360-04:002012-05-08T09:34:41.360-04:00I'm not so naive as to think voting alone will...I'm not so naive as to think voting alone will fix anything, what is called for is obviously the kind of incrementalism the idiots used to get us into this mess in the first place; it has worked fairly well for the gun rights activists so it has a proven track record; what I've asked, and what I have, actually, received a very few very thoughtful answers to, is "how will NOT voting fix anything/make it better? The consensus seems to be "it won't"oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-91728466339183058692012-05-08T07:25:00.891-04:002012-05-08T07:25:00.891-04:00A "movement", illustrated by "twent...A "movement", illustrated by "twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy photos."Kirk Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771406743553513521noreply@blogger.com