After what feels like an eternity, Election Day is finally here. In case some of you aren't sure what the implications are, it basically means that after today Saturday Night Live will be stupid again; Sarah Palin will return to Alaska; "Hanging Chad" will disappear from everyday vernacular for another four years; and I won't have to dread voting again for a long time. I voted this morning at 7:45am and there were several things that made no sense to me:1) I waited in line for about an hour. It then took me about three minutes to vote. It doesn't take Pythagoras to understand the problem here. Why should this possibly take so long? It's not like the polling place could underestimate demand. They have a list of everyone that will be coming! It amazes me that in over two hundred years, we haven't been able to figure out an efficient way for people to choose between two people.
2) Not sure about your Wards, but in my Ward, we didn't have electronic voting. We had a paper ballot and we had to use a "special pen" to fill in an arrow. It amazes me that in an age of iPhones, wireless internet, handheld GPS and Tivo, the only way that I can vote for the President is to use technology that has been around since the Sumerians invented Cuneiform. Maybe we should just write the candidate's name on a small piece of parchment and attach it to the leg of a pigeon and see what happens.
3) I had no idea how many judges there were. I must have colored in about a thousand arrows for all the different judges. I find it very hard to believe that the court system is so clogged with that many judges out there.
4) Why can't I just vote online? I can transfer money or pay my credit card bill from my cell phone from anywhere in the country. Those websites are encrypted and totally secure. Why can't I just register online and create a password so that I get emailed a link that lets me click one of two bubbles and cast my vote. It should take thirty seconds. It makes no sense to me that I can order brand new shoes from Zappos and have them arrive tomorrow with free shipping, but voting for one of two people takes over an hour.
Oh well, at least it will all be over soon :)
2 comments:
Yay for a new day! Congrats on rocking the vote. Its such a relief knowing its out of my hands now.
Actually the Sumerians used clay tablets. Paper wasn't invented until much later. We've come a long way. And a common peon like you wouldn't have been allowed to learn cuneiform.
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