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Post by TBustah! on Nov 8, 2006 3:07:41 GMT -5
Yeah, me. My first time to the polls.   Basically, my dad and I went to our district's polling office, and cast our votes. This involved going to the convention center of a local casino (where my class coincidentally also had grad night a little over 5 months ago), and ignoring several pungent octogenarians that seemed to know Dad, (that is, I ignored them or just politely smiled, dad talked to them) who said stuff like "No, that can't be Doc's boy! He's not old enough to vote is he?" and "Is that little *Tommy? He's gotten so big!" , or "Gimme your phone number, Doc, so I can call you in the middle of the night to complain about my hip!" (okay, so I made that last one up, but that is something that has been known to happen  ) Anyway, after several akward (and slightly creepy, cause I didn't recongize any of them) moments involving elderly folks that I hadn't seen since Michael Jackson still somewhat resembled a normal human being, and dad getting pissed at me for flipping a coin to make my choice for a couple of the offices ;D (but it was only because I didn't know anything about either candidate, and there was no indication as to their party affiliations), we walked by the check-in desk, and were handed a couple of those "I voted" stickers, and were told "Here you go, boys. This is what you get for being good citizens!"  Wow, after all that, you're giving me a sticker? Really? Wow!  What a great incentive for something that people should want to do in the first place anyway! Naw, seriously, I'm glad I voted (especially since it looks like on the news that Jill Derby's gonna lose, and the "stoner's law" isn't gonna pass  . I just thought it was funny that the lady who gave us the stickers acted like she was giving adults stickers as a reward, like how they give little kids a sticker at the dentist's office, and not that the stickers served as a declaration that the bearer has participated in democracy and exercised one's constitutional right by visiting the polls. (And she was serious, by the way, it wasn't just some lame joke) Oh, and the description of my encounter with local seniors was just tongue in cheek, to add to the overall point of this post: that a sticker is a crappy reward for something that people don't do as much as they should (because it's an "inconvenience", or whatever), and that it really isn't a pain in the butt to vote, so why "bribe" people into doing it? (*For the record, I've never in my life gone by "Tommy" or even "Tom" with my friends or anybody, because there was a guy I went to school with over the years with that moniker, and I figured early on that people would make stupid Rugrats and Power Rangers jokes, because those shows had characters called Tommy and were popular at the time I started school. But a lot of people just call me that, even though I've given them no indication as to my preference, and always refer to myself as Thomas. It's always been that way, which on the other hand, led people to make stupid Thomas the Tank Engine jokes, especially since that was one of my favorite shows when I was little.  ) |
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Post by Sugar on Nov 8, 2006 10:12:55 GMT -5
*thumb's up for voting*
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Post by Butterscotch on Nov 8, 2006 14:10:24 GMT -5
I forgot to vote ^^;
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Post by BorderWolf on Nov 8, 2006 23:06:49 GMT -5
Good job on voting. Maybe more states should go with what Oregon has: vote-by-mail. That way the ballot is sent to the person's house a few weeks before the deadline to vote.
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What a great incentive for something that people should want to do in the first place anyway! 
. I just thought it was funny that the lady who gave us the stickers acted like she was giving adults stickers as a reward, like how they give little kids a sticker at the dentist's office, and not that the stickers served as a declaration that the bearer has participated in democracy and exercised one's constitutional right by visiting the polls. (And she was serious, by the way, it wasn't just some lame joke) Oh, and the description of my encounter with local seniors was just tongue in cheek, to add to the overall point of this post: that a sticker is a crappy reward for something that people don't do as much as they should (because it's an "inconvenience", or whatever), and that it really isn't a pain in the butt to vote, so why "bribe" people into doing it?
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