Re: Exciting election

["K. William Young" <wyoung@secureworks.net>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Baron Chandler wrote:

> We're supposed to be voting tommorrow? 
> 
> They'd better not pre-empt my Buffy for election coverage, or I swear I'll lose
> it. 

I'd like to see two reforms in the franchise for the betterment of the
republic.

1) All canidates are write-in canidates. You must vote for and against
a canidate. This way, if you aren't at least aware of the _names_ of
both canidates, you don't vote. This is an election, not a lottery.

2) We have a minimum age to vote. How about a maximum age to vote. Old
people are too easily scared into the voting booth by the threat of a
loss in social security, annual driver's license exams or the
cancelation of Matlock. They just aren't mentally fast enough to
vote. Florida will be a better place when drivers don't live in fear
of being in a two lane highway behind a septugenarian in a Cadilac
with Massitusets plates going 35 in a 55, looking seconds away from
heart attack number 4.

Yeah, I'm bitter.

Will