WHAT TO DO ON ELECTION DAY. Vote, silly!
Feel free to share your polling tales here.
I hope they aren't too appalling.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Arts! Entertainment! Other! Since 2002!
Blog About Town
- David Marc Fischer
- New York, NY
BAT Planning
BAT Reference
BAT Links
- Gluten-Free NYC
- New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Map
- bighappyfunhouse
- ALOTT5MA
- newyorkette
- Radosh.net
- caprice's glob
- Amazing Adventures of Bill
- EV Grieve
- Emdashes
- Debbie Glasserman Design
- Deborah Grumet
- Marianne R. Petit
- Trish Mash
- Addled Writer
- Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company
- Gallery of the Absurd
- Go Fug Yourself
- Worth1000 Picture of the Day
- Matt Mendelsohn
- your waitress
- Heading Home Again
- The Other Dave
- Stoneleafunfounddoor
- passive aggressive notes.com
- PostSecret
- WFMU
Posts
5 comments:
Voted at 9:05 today at the Brooklyn High School of the Arts on Dean Street. Nothing out of the ordinary, but I did notice a very low voter turnout. The few people coming in seemed to be toting literature for Gloria Mattera, the Green candidate for Brooklyn Borough President.
Unfortunately the ballot itself is quite 'Soviet'. There are actually no choices for most offices. The bulk of them are judgeships and DA which are endorsed by several parties including parties with hastily invented names. There are also strange voter proposals which do not commit to anything concrete, except Prop 2 which will apparently give lots of cash to those arcane public authorities which already allow almost no public oversight.
Very sad indeed.
Previous comment was removed because of formatting errors.
Regarding the "Soviet" slates (I love the term, by the way), I remember discovering years ago that other parts of the country actually had candidates competing for judgeships and such--what a concept!
On the subject of the propositions, I always wish that they were better communicated to the voting public. I do think that this year they're getting more attention than in the past. Maybe that's a sign of improvement.
For those with Greenish leanings, I do note that NYPIRG supports New York's Proposition 1.
Well, I did the deed and took my time, as is my habit. I could hear the usual wisecracks from outside the booth, but I guess that's okay--I only held up the next voter for a little while.
Very quiet at the East 10th Street voting booths this afternoon. Had all the time in the world to read the four propositions and twiddle my thumbs sans wisecracks on the other side of the curtain.
Post a Comment