- no more automatic messages on my home voice mail
- no more inopportune calls that start out, "I can't believe (insert candidate's name) is running for (insert office)!" then proceed to tell you what scum the aforementioned candidate is.
These calls makes one want to get rid of one's landline.
- Why are politicians exempt from the DO NOT CALL registry?
- Why are politicians also exempt from the bot-call laws (where a computer can't call you and stay on the line even after you've hung up the phone)?
I don't like my county's "new" method of "voting". Another woman and I were discussing this while on-line to cast our votes this morning. Neither of us think very much of this so-called progress. The folders provided for "privacy" were half the size needed to shield the ballot. The Poll Watcher -- the man who can read your ballot (so much for a secret ballot!) -- tried to tell us that the new system was much more handicap accessible.
Sorry. Not buying into that. I mean, how do blind people fill in those little dots? Or people with Parkinson's Disease? And so many of the senior citizens at my polling place this morning had to refill in their ballots because the scanner wouldn't accept them. Some ballots had to be scanned multiple times in order to completely "take."
Doesn't anyone besides me remember that seniors having difficulty with ballots is what allowed the Bush Brothers to collude and steal the Florida electoral votes several years ago, changing the course of American history?
And what's up with no one for whom to vote?
The two most important races in my area (in my opinion) had only the incumbents on the ballot. No other party even bothered to put up candidates. My tax dollars are paying for a non-election?
But I did my civic duty.l
I exercised my right to vote.
And this blog is an exercise in my Freedom of Speech.
Is the USA a great country or what.
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