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Tue, 02 Nov 2004 I live in Texas. That means that my vote in the presidential race means jack and shit—our electoral votes have as much chance of going to Kerry as I have of ever scoring with Elisha Cuthbert. That's why I voted for John Kerry—may as well be contrarian. My actual reasons for voting were (1) to vote Libertarian party line in all the local elections, and (2) to experience those computerized piece-of-shit voting machines firsthand. The first speaks for itself, but something interesting occured to me as I was pondering the voting machines: how the fsck do you write in a candidate? It seemed to me as if the mechanism for doing so was intentionally obscured, and that bothers me. Sure, no write-in candidate has a prayer of becoming the next president, but how about in local elections where write-ins are much more common (and have much better odds)? I wonder if this was done on purpose, or if it's just the fact that no one knows how to do user interface design for shit... writebackHolloway wrote
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