I just voted with my absentee ballot. The directions seem more confusing than ever and there is a lot of room for error. You have to be particularly careful and keep everything within the margins. Don’t make mistakes and don’t change your mind halfway through.
There should be more information given on how to vote properly so that your ballot doesn’t get tossed out. Maybe it is just that I am really stupid, but then many voters are most likely to be as dumb as me if not dumber, and in that case we should lower the bar for everyone.
When I fill in bubbles, I can’t possibly stay in the lines, and I don’t want my clumsiness to negatively affect my vote, especially now. I am not voting for a candidate as much as I am voting against one. In truth, I would much rather vote for Leonard Peltier, who runs for the Peace and Freedom Party. Ideally, we should have more than a two party system. Can you call freedom the choice between two masters? We don’t live in a free country, and right now we are far from peace. The Peace and Freedom Party is exactly what we need. Unfortunately, I can’t risk the chance of Bush winning just to satisfy my hope of what America could be. It’s only a few days now, just after Halloween. I love that mystical holiday, when the veil between worlds is the thinnest. If the spirits could vote, I bet they’d all choose Leonard Peltier. He is definitely the most soulful candidate.
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change. Yet they are arbitrarily silenced, as if forfeiting their right to vote punishes them. In truth, it punishes the rest of us because it turns the right into a privilege. Whenever privilege is introduced, there are problems. We cannot afford any more problems.