civic duty, etc
Oct. 28th, 2009 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseSo, among my last minute "oh-shit" things that I realized I had to do today before leaving for Japan: Vote. Absentee ballots are a glorious thing.
I'm embarrassed to admit how lost I felt when I realized that The Stranger's voter guide doesn't include any information on those pesky little one-candidate runs. The ones where there isn't a choice so much as a panic over whether to vote for or not to vote for this person I've never heard of before, when there really isn't an alternative. Googling politicians? Really not that helpful. And their websites are all kind of ass.
It doesn't really matter, I suppose, given the lack of alternative, but I always have the nagging feeling that I might accidentally vote for someone I'd totally hate if I knew a damned thing about them.
That said, I do love the feeling of voting a huge yes on Ref. 71 (our "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law), and another big old no on yet another of Tim Eyman's moronic plots to wrestle funding away from everything good in the state. Seriously, where do I sign to get that man permanently barred from ever submitting another freaking initiative? To my memory, we haven't had an election without his asshattery since before I could vote. :P
I'm embarrassed to admit how lost I felt when I realized that The Stranger's voter guide doesn't include any information on those pesky little one-candidate runs. The ones where there isn't a choice so much as a panic over whether to vote for or not to vote for this person I've never heard of before, when there really isn't an alternative. Googling politicians? Really not that helpful. And their websites are all kind of ass.
It doesn't really matter, I suppose, given the lack of alternative, but I always have the nagging feeling that I might accidentally vote for someone I'd totally hate if I knew a damned thing about them.
That said, I do love the feeling of voting a huge yes on Ref. 71 (our "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law), and another big old no on yet another of Tim Eyman's moronic plots to wrestle funding away from everything good in the state. Seriously, where do I sign to get that man permanently barred from ever submitting another freaking initiative? To my memory, we haven't had an election without his asshattery since before I could vote. :P
