Ignoramus14339 wrote:

On 2008-11-04, SteveB toquerville@zionvistas wrote:
I'm off to a 14 hour day working as an election worker. I'm afraid for my
country today. Vote for whoever you believe in, and live with it. I'm
going to vote for the man who is proud to be an American.

I was at my voting place today and saw an unusually large number of
people. Take a lot of drinks with you and other comfort items, it will
be a busy day.

As they say, vote for the person you hate the least. Personally I think
we're pretty well doomed either way, just a little differently each way.

The only way democracy will survive is if we eliminate the politicians,
replace the president with a PR rep, and go to mandatory direct issue
voting, eliminating the need to vote for someone you strongly disagree
with on some issues because you agree with them on other issues. With
the eventual national electronic ID (already got e-passports and the new
passport card), there is no reason we can't get to full electronic
voting from anywhere (ATM, library PC, mall kiosk, home PC, etc.) with
at least the same level of voter identification reliability we have now.
Make voting mandatory (like Australia), and have it on the first day of
each month or similar.