October 07, 2003

Well, I voted

I walked two and a half blocks to where I go vote. I walked because I'd heard something on the radio about a record turnout and long wait times. Fortunately, I'm time shifted[0] so I had to wait in line for almost an entire minute before being given my ballot. It would've been faster if I had driven, but at least I got a nice walk out of it.

I don't usually talk about politics. There are a couple of reasons for this. The main one is that I like to be able to give informed and well reasoned opinions, and usually I find that the issues behind the convenient sound bytes are very complex thorny things that have broad reaching impacts. So, I can not really say if the recall is right or wrong. I can say that it seems rather sleazy and I find the tactic to be generally distasteful [1].

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[0] Work starts at 10:00am and runs until enough of my coworkers have left that I don't feel guilty about leaving... usually between 8:00pm and midnight.

[1] This is in no way meant to exonerate anyone's behavior in this campaign. I'm more than a little disgusted with the whole circus.

Posted by matt at October 7, 2003 01:39 PM
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