Voting Day. Woo. W- uh, woo?…
Okay, this is sad, but until I get the pen rendering worked out, Ink just hurts my eyes. And as I’m the only reader, I’m taking pity on myself and *amending* my blog rules. (Amending. Not breaking.)
Two common suggestions to increase voting turn-out at largely meaningless mid-term voting:
- Make it mandatory
- Make it a federal holiday
Neither are likely, let’s be honest. They make too much sense.
My new favorite idea to improve voting turn-out comes from the Freakonomics blog: Abolish polling and all the navel-gazing, run-up bullshit that makes voting an underwhelming civil grudge. Make it a mystery again—popular convergence, not mass manuipulation. I’d sure like to feel less like a mindless drone, voting right along with my demographic, socio-economic and homophylic group. I did get a kick out of voting against my theoretical self-interest in our Washington State propositions offering up prudish interpretations of the estate tax and lap dances. Note to Seattle’s *two* strip-clubs: lap dances okay within a 4-foot radius!
Then again, if polling, punditry and patronization were abolished, what would “The Daily Show” & Colbert mock?
Mock, mock, mock. “Don’t knock my smock or I’ll clean your clock.“
