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My voting paper arrived yesterday, for Tippecanoe County, State of Indiana. “Vote for no more than one” it says. Bush, Kerry, or who the fuck is Badnarik? What a choice. I don’t get the US voting system. “Write-in” candidates? Huh? So I can vote for people other than those three, if I write it in? Surely that puts the write-in candidates at a huge disadvantage. Geez, it’s crazy, and we haven’t even got to the Electoral College yet... WTF?

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Down by the Basin Reserve there’s a new Tui billboard that says, “It’s a church, not a cult. Yeah, right.”

I had so much to tell you but I’ve lost it all…

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I don’t get it. I so completely don’t get it. Indiana has 11 votes in the electoral college… but if the majority of Indianans vote for Bush, then all 11 votes go to Bush, is that right? SO WHAT’S THE BLEEDING POINT?! And how do they work out who actually goes on the ballot paper?? It’s bizarre. Totally and utterly bizarre. Someone said I was “half-American” yesterday. I’d just like to point out that although half of my passports are American, I am kiwi through and through and through. I just think the whole world should have a say in the US Presidential elections, and since I’ve got the opportunity, I think I should take it. For what it’s worth. Which appears to be a whole lot less than nothing.

And check out the “curiosities” of the electoral college system. “Far from being flaws, then, the historical oddities described above demonstrate the strength and resilience of the Electoral College system in being able to select a president in even the most troubled of times.” God bless the divine democracy of the US of A.

Posted by Fionnaigh at October 18, 2004 12:14 AM