Vote or Tie
If you abstained from voting for some ideological reason, I'm still mad at you, but I understand principled people sometimes have objections. For those who think your vote doesn't count, those who have self-esteem issues, who feel dwarfed by the sea of humanity at the polls--your own lack of personal power--you have my everlasting spite.
My vote counts. If the final margin is less than 2,000, my vote will be re-counted as well. Less than 150, and some nice septuagenarian with debilitating glaucoma is going to re-count my vote by hand.
Eat that you apathetics. You get to 120-odd-million one vote at a time. Bitch about the system, about oppression, complain about this and that, lament the lack of equality in jobs, education, and rights in this country. Here it is, equality. One each.
This is how you fix things.
Assholes. This shouldn't have been nearly so close a race.
posted by Luke @ 3:15 PM
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Well, there aren't really a lot of ways to say it: Every vote counts. As an added bonus, there are no comparative 'vote power' issues with this race like what we get at the national level with the electoral college.
At least I voted for Gregoire. Hopefully, my absentee vote has yet to be counted and will be an extra mark in the blue column for the governor's race.
For more voting and election related fun, I suggest reading Don's Crazy Mayors Race and my own P Diddy Murders 56 Million Registered Voters.
--Mike Sheffler
... turning to the 3-D map, we see an unmistakable cone of ignorance
I would have voted for Gregoire if I were still a Washington resident! Is it looking bad? They had to do a recount in 2000 for the Cantwell/Gorton race and it turned out well for Maria. Fingers crossed.
Dammit Maya, you already HAVE a governor.
Could have been an 18 vote differential.
I posted back in - ahem - October regarding the strikingly consistent failure of the 18-24 crowd to EVER show up. But I also noted that new registrations this time around were vastly increased and that just maybe that mythical youth vote would burst forth from fairyland finally.
I was not too surprised to learn that the same old TEN PERCENT of the Choose-or-Lose, Rock-the-Vote, Vote-or-Die generation bothered to show up.
With all the close states this year, and all the heartbroken college students AFTER THE FACT, I almost marvel at the fairly certain reality that it will be almost exactly the same in 2008.
Here's to the kids!
This election has actually been kind of exciting for me, even though I was dissapointed with the presidential outcome. You see, I'm origionally from Texas, a "red" state. If I were living in Texas right now, I'd be part of an even smaller minority than I am here in Spokane (a "red" county/town). There are no close elections in Texas, the Republican just wins, hands down...esspecially when he re-draws the districs in his favor. [smartass comment]I think there's a name for this right? Jerry-something or other? Ah well, nobody noticed, so I guess it's legal eh?[/smartass comment] ;-)
I saw on CNN last night (24 Nov) that the difference at this point in the recount is about 50 votes out of about 2.6 million cast statewide. Amazing.
So, tell me if I'm wrong on this, on election day more people DIED in Washington than the current margin in the Governor's race. Wonder how many of them voted first?
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