Your Humble Blogger received his new Voter Registration card today [Note: last week sometime?]. The apparatus of democracy always moves me. Yes, that’s because Your Humble Blogger is, at heart, a goofball. One could also assign psychological meaning; my mother, after all, was a registrar and a poll worker, and went door-to-door collecting signatures for candidate petitions and so on. I grew up familiar with precinct maps, rolls of registered voters, and so on. It’s possible, I suppose, that such things remind me of a happy childhood.
I’m inclined, however, to think that my attachment to the ideals of democracy, and the passion for one-adult-one-vote, has transferred itself to those things, and that what my mother’s activities did was reinforce that association. Many people don’t even seem to associate the act of voting with the ideal of democracy; I go to the other extreme, I suppose.
I hope my local political associations give out slate cards. I adore slate cards; I missed them in Massachusetts, and I never understood why they weren’t used. Heck, my union was pretty reticent about local elections. In San Francisco, I remember lining up four or five of them from different organizations, comparing endorsements, and making notes. Of course, in California, you need notes any time you go into a voting booth, to remind you which way to vote on the 28 questions (the matter of the ventriloquist’s dummy was 28th one go-round).
Are there bloggers out there who do downloadable slate cards? Or an index to bloggers’ precincts, with a tool to do your own? I suppose that those of us who blog under false names wouldn’t be likely to reveal our voting wards, but wouldn’t that be cool? Heck, Kos could just set it up on his site, and let each user make her own, with a selector to compare. I should send him the idea, once I’m back on-line.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.
Listening to Eartha Kitt singing “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”. I don’t see the need to mention what I'm listeing to every time, but the side is remarkable, and I wanted to remark on it.