prog: (moonbat)
prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2006-11-04 06:27 pm

Ballot info for local yokels

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This makes me very pleased: If you're voting in Massachusetts next week, you can use this website to plug in your address and see what your ballot will look like, including referenda. Heretofore I have always been surprised by a couple of these questions, and peeved. I have wanted to see exactly this service for many election cycles.

http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php



I will throw in the rule of thumb that I think I picked up from, erm, either [livejournal.com profile] cortezopossum or [livejournal.com profile] wrog (both of whom are electionistas in their respective communities), that if a referendum doesn't make any sense to you even after you think about and (if you get the chance) research it, a good rule of thumb is to vote NO.

This seems pretty obvious, since the alternative is basically playing a game of "what does this button do?" with your vote, but I hadn't seen it spelled out like that in the past, and I can dig it.



My hope and anger are both rising together as Tuesday draws closer. They are both definitely exceeding levels seen in 2004. I am continually crafting and refining my Schrodinger's Cat of an LJ post for that evening, at once a cathartic victory howl and grave-pissing, and a vomiting of hate-fueled rage calling for the obliteration of the enemy. I will not actually post it because in either eigenstate it's rather horrible, really.

Anyway, I am very excited.

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2006-11-05 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
In the past - as recently as the most recent primaries, actually - when an unexpected choice of candidates was thrust at me in the voting booth, I'd literally flip a coin. My only other options seemed to be turning in the ballot as spoiled and going home, or leaving it unmarked. But I didn't wanna do the former and didn't know what would happen if I did the latter.

I am a menace. This is why this website makes me so happy.
jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (jon)

[personal profile] jadelennox 2006-11-08 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Leaving it unmarked seems to me to be the right solution there!