VOTE

[Robert Myers]

Amen, Brett.  Some things ARE more important than Audis - even to an Audiholic.


At 12:55 PM 10/25/2004 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:

>Need something to do, and live in the US?  Register to vote- and then vote 
>on election day.
>
>Why?
>
>-Because democracy is not a spectator sport.
>-Because no matter how much money corporations dump into the political 
>process, only YOU can vote.
>-Because people in the third world with little or no education manage to 
>vote despite gun-toting hoodlums and standing in lines for hours upon 
>hours.  What's your excuse?
>-Because the rest of the world judges us by our leaders, seeing as we are 
>a democracy.
>
>A slew of states have even set up early voting:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/daily/graphics/earlyvoting_082504.html
>
>If you're in Massachusetts (and a number of us are- it used to be the #1 
>state in the registry!) http://www.votinginfo.info/ has lots of info, and 
>even a MA Voter's Rights statement to print out and take with you to the polls.
>
>   Don't vote on soundbites, whoever brought in the most pork, how many 
> ads they've run, promises they make, or how many babies they've 
> kissed.  Do the research on how well your views are represented; the web 
> makes it easy, just watch your sources carefully.  Curious who's really 
> aligned with your views?  There are even a bunch of 'selectors' that ask 
> you issue questions, then rate who you most closely match. Check out:
>http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/01/01_newsroom_selectapres/
>
>
>...but there are several others.  Plenty of other stuff as close as a 
>search in your favorite web search engine.
>
>Registered and planning to vote?  Good.  Harass every family member, 
>friend and coworker until they register and swear to you they'll actually 
>go to the polls come election day.
>
>Already done that?  Fantastic.  Maybe you can help out with these:
>http://votewatch.us/
>http://www.electionprotectionvolunteer.org/electionprotection/index.cfm
>
>...because we should probably run our elections cleanly and reliably 
>before we start preaching to the world about democracy.
>
>I now return you to your regularly scheduled Audi content.
>
>Brett
>--
>"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, 
>jury, ammo.
>   Use in that order, starting now."  -Ed Howdershelt
>http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/
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