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[plutherus]

Hm.
So, according to the Register-Guard, Bush got 100% of the votes in the Republican Primary.

He was, of course, running unopposed, but I'd love to see what the actual breakdown of the votes was. Like, how many people actually wrote in different candidates so as not to vote for him. I wrote in McCain. I know of at least one other who did likewise.

I don't know if write-ins were counted at all - or if they counted how many people wrote in "none of the above" - or how many people actually voted for him.

According to the news last night, only about 1/3 of registered voters in Oregon actually voted.

That figure is pretty damn pathetic. Especially in Oregon, where all voting is done by mail-in ballot and you don't even have to get up off your ass to go down to a local polling station. And that's registered voters - people to whom ballots were actually sent. Who knows how many people never even bothered to register.

And I know a lot of those "disenfranchised" voters are among my friends. So, here's what: register to vote. It's not too late for the November election. Then actually fill in the ballot and send it in. It's not hard, and it is important. Hate the system? Then spend five minutes working to change it. Hate Bush and Kerry both? Then vote for a third candidate. If half you lazy fucks who didn't vote in the last election bothered to do so then, it would have been the end of the two-party rule. If you can't be bothered to vote for someone else, then just shut up. I don't want to hear it. Nothing you have to say about the system is worth hearing if you can't even be bothered to back up your opinion with fucking five minutes worth of work.

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[reynard52.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's because 1/3 of Oregon voters couldn't find outer space on a map. Volks in the Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar Right register to vote and you don't tend to think their opinions are worth hearing either!




'Course, neither do I. Feel the same about the Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar Left, which is about the same creature as mentioned above.

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

Forgot two things:

1. I figure the RG just made it up because apparently when it comes to the general Republican MO, that's just what you do. May as well stick with the new party rules. I suppose that beats the Dem's eternal roll-over-kicky-foot schemes. Sigh.

2. I had posted but erased a scenario. In my NyQuil shot mind, I imagined all of us lazy and nonlazy fucks on a commune with 31seel doing all our dishes in a mini Gestapo skirt. With bows. In June. In the rain. He looked like Hello Kitty in olive drab. It was super kawaii! Forgive me D. This illness is kicking my sorry ass. I have GOT to learn Flash animation....