Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Election Reform

MTV is once again rolling out its “Rock the Vote” campaign.

I assume. I programmed our TV remote to skip over MTV ever since they stopped playing music and became whatever it is they are these days.

Since I’m a bit older these days and mellower I’m wondering when someone is going to roll out a “Smooth Jazz the Vote” for my demographic.

The challenger candidate for Salt Lake County Commissioner stopped by our house on Saturday. We had a pleasant conversation. Most of Utah has moved to electronic voting machines. Diebold, of course. So did I mention that Princeton researchers had shown that a Diebold voting machine can be hacked in less than a minute? Yes, I did, my friends, yes, I did. Bottom line, we are stuck with these things. And a ton of other places are stuck with them as well.

My only conciliation is that since everyone knows that we Democrats are all evil, have no morals and will stop at nothing to ruin this country. So odds are in our favor that we Dems have all the hackers on our side.

Other rejected “get out the vote” catchy slogans:

• Vote! You get a Sticker!
• Mambo the Vote!
• Vote or be Horribly Maimed by a Badger! (a slight variation on P. Diddy’s “Vote or Die!” thing)
• Vote! So you can start bitching, FULL TIME!
• Vote! Or We Won’t Stop Runnning Political Ads!
• Vote! We Can’t Screw Things Up Unless We Hear from You! Wait, Scratch That; Vote, Don’t Vote, Doesn’t Matter, We’ll Just Do Whatever We Want No Matter What You Say.

1. At least democracy will die bold-ly.

   Posted by Carrie  on  10/25/06  at  12:39 PM

2. My husband wrote a play about hacking a Diebold voting machine, which is the only reason I knew about that.  In fact his play is called “Hack the Vote”.  I don’t even get him started on the subject anymore, because it’s like ... I can’t think of a good analogy but trust me, he is prone to ranting on the subject of hacking voting machines for a good long time.

   Posted by Suburbia  on  10/25/06  at  05:37 PM

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