I finally got my absentee ballot today. A tingly sensation ran up through my fingertips as I filled in the oval (office) next to Barack Obama and Joe Biden's names. Let's just hope Mr. Jowly Face himself, Bob Barr, helps tip the scale in Georgia toward the Democrats this year (though we may be in for another run of this barf bag).
Then I realized that the rest of the ballot was littered with unopposed incumbents, mainly running for judge, with names I had never heard in my life.
And after a little Googling revealed that the majority of these candidates are people I wouldn't trust to not spit in my food, much less operate a gavel, I decided to write in my votes as an oh-so-subtle form of protest.
For those of you doing the same, here are the 2008 write-in "lesser of two evils" I am endorsing, in lieu of, oh, other democratic options.
1. Stephen Colbert (the obvious choice)
2. Batman (serving up justice with batarangs)
3. Nina Simone
4. Evo Morales (technically the president of Bolivia, but he's doing such a bang-up job there, why not come over occasionally to give Sonny Perdue a kick in the pants?)
5. Smallpox (in place of a particularly odious incumbent). At least you know where smallpox stands.
Rounding out the list were my cat, my mom, and Mother Teresa (YOUR mom, ho ho!)
So--good luck exercising your most underrated right as a citizen of this country. If you don't vote, you're a sucker.
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oh boy... voting's going to be fun! the last presidential election, I voted in Shelby County (Memphis) since I knew DeKalb would go blue without me-- talk about not knowing anyone...
Justin's Fun Fact of the day: The time in which you posted your blog, 5:38, is the number of electors in the U.S. Electoral College!
You are a mad genius Justin.
Yeah, since everyone I voted for in the primaries lost, I have no clue who's left. At least they're all democrats in Fulton.
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