Working Families

Patrick has advice for New Yorkers: Vote for Kerry on the Working Families line, Row E. Click the link to learn more.

If all the states supported fusion balloting, we might have viable third parties in this country.

#150

I was voter #150 in my ward.

New Jersey (or at least Hudson County) uses electronic voting machines, but at least they're not touch-screens. There's a paper ballot fastened over a panel with lights and switches. When I pressed the square for my choice, I could feel a physical switch engaging behind the paper, and a little green X lit up behind my choice. When I was done, I hit the big red button below the panel, and that was it.

The downside is that I think my votes was still recorded electronically. Don't these people know you can't trust electronic recording of votes? Haven't they heard of wave-particle duality and quantum tunneling?! My vote could be smeared into some indeterminate third-party state!

No matter what, here's a reason to be happy.

To the Shores of Need, Past the Reefs of Greed, Through the Squalls of Hate

It’s coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it’s here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

— “Democracy”, Leonard Cohen