August 3rd, 2006 by Atomictumor
Never though I’d be the one telling people to vote, but fact is theres going to be a lot of these weird assed people voting to get their buddies into office, and those are the kind of votes we need to drown out. I, like a lot of people, feel that Anderson County politics take a backseat to Oak Ridge politics, but its all the same thing deep down.
If you’re concerned about the direction of schools, get out and vote today. If you’re concerned that your neighbor got jumped by a crackheads and daughters of policemen, get out and vote. If you’re tired about your country inciting political unrest across the country, vote.
Will it fix anything? No.
But once people stop giving a damn about the civic processes in the country, it gives some people the license to hijack the government into being a government for some people, instead of for THE people.
Yes, its a pain in the ass. You have to get out of your house, and get in line with people, and have some old person tell you how to push buttons. It’ll take 15 minutes out of your day. You won’t get a prize, and nobody will have sex with you because you voted.
Thing is, this election is going to determine the makeup of damn near the entire Anderson County system for many years to come, so a mistake now is going to screw with you for a while to come.
So seriously, go vote.
Tonight we’ll get some results, and I’ll probably bitch about who you people elected either then or tomorrow.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:53 am
The deed has been done. Although I don’t approve of the papertrail-less machines, voting on them was easy and kinda fun, in a nerdy I-like-computers kinda way.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:59 am
Because I had nothing better to do this morning, and felt like wasting a little gas, I drove by the three precinct locations in my district. There appeared to be a great number of cars at each, though I’m sure that quite a few of those belonged to campaign volunteers, candidates, etc. We voted early on Saturday, and I don’t think I’ll do that again. There’s just something about voting on election day that I feel I’m missing out on.
I think one of the funnier moments of the campaign season came after we voted at the mall on Saturday. As we were driving out of the mall parking lot, we passed an Archer sign sticking prominently out of an enormous pile of dirt. Not a landscaped island, mind you, but just plain old dirt and rocks left after a demolition project. Nice.
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:34 am
Its the American way.
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:17 pm
I spoke to a fellow this week who said “i am guaranteed the right to bitch about who gets elected even if i don’t vote, because that is my freedom they can’t take away!!” I felt like I was trapped in some strange redneck adaption of “Waiting for Godot”, though it was more likely “Waiting for Pabst Blue Ribbom.”
I backed away as quick as possible in case his severe case of stupid was infectious. Yeesh.