{"id":506,"date":"2004-11-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=301"},"modified":"2004-11-01T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:00:00","slug":"democracy-in-action-uh-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"democracy in action. uh, inaction."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello.<\/p>\n

This morning, I got up in the earliest of the am’s to go get in line to vote. I figured I’d get a jump on my democracy and still get to work early and make me some extra cash. But no! I walked in the school over on 64th and Sheridan, and in some vast administrative error, the entire state of Minnesota had been assigned to my polling place. No, really. So I left. Who needs a new president, anyway?<\/p>\n

I went back this afternoon and all the suckers who had to work were still at work, so I snuck in and got my vote on. Three times! Ok, no. But I could have, as they weren’t checking IDs. They asked for last name, and to verify the address, which was very easily legible upside down on the giant roster. I asked the election-frau why they didn’t ask for identification, and she was instantly flustered. Since she had pointed out that I lived two blocks up the street from her, she tried to play it like she didn’t because we were neighbors. Only I didn’t know her at all. Then she said they did check sometimes, but not always, and something about how it slowed things down and mumblemumblepleasegoaway.<\/p>\n

This kind of question is one usually answered tacitly with ‘because you’re white’. Not that I’m jumping to conclusions or anything.<\/p>\n

So I went and filled in my ovals completely, which was really easy because hardly anyone is up for re-election in this district. Also, I want to confess that I voted for a judge because his name made me giggle. Sorry.<\/p>\n

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I have a lot of faith in the democratic process.<\/i><\/div>\n

Today means two things. First of all, Dick Cheney’s recorded voice will finally stop prank-calling my mother, and she’ll be able to stop yelling ‘GO TO HELL, DICK CHENEY!’ She expressed a great deal of fear that her behavior would land her in jail, or at least on some kind of Patriot Act watchlist. I informed her that it was her constitutional right as an American to tell Dick Cheney to go to hell, although if W gets re-elected, that’s a civil liberty she can surely kiss goodbye.<\/p>\n

Second, for me at least, it’ll be proof of whether I can ever trust this whole process again. Sure, I’ll vote until I die, because P Diddy threatened to kill me if I didn’t. But, no, I don’t really believe my vote counts for shit. How can my filling in little ovals in a collapsible plastic booth stand up to unlimited amounts of ill-gotten cash? I dunno. We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n

Fingers crossed for the old, rich, Christian white guy with less blood on his hands.
Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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