VOTE!!

[donutsweeper]

Since I know all my US friends will be voting tomorrow I thought I'd share some very important facts about the day:

Voting = FREE FOOD!!!!!!

That's right! If you vote and show your "I voted" sticker you can get free Starbucks coffee, free Ben & Jerry's ice cream and a free Krispy Kreme donut!

So, do your civic duty and yadada, and then go get yourself some treats!

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yet somehow it mostly works. To some extent anyway, which is all that really matters I suppose

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on which side of the fence you are sitting or how you look at it really.

Both our countries have, in effect, the 'first past the post system'. Which means that it's not actually in any way, shape or form truly representative.

All over LJ and the news, etc. etc. everyone is talking about Obama's landslide and how the country showed whom they wanted. Okay . . . But look at it this way: his landslide victory is in no way in line with the popular vote, is it? The landslide comes from Senate seats. The popular vote put him just over 51% - thus in reality your country is actually not overwhelmingly saying 'we wanted Obama', but your system makes it look that way.

And the same is true here as well. Last time Blair got in with considerably less than the 'popular' vote (down in the mid 30%s with the second party only a couple of percent less) in fact IMS it's been a while since any party got over 50% of the popular vote. Even in Labour's 'landslide' election they only got 43% of the popular vote.

As the Lib Dems have been saying for years/decades, the system isn't fair and in effect 'doesn't work'.

Look at it that way, and you can see they and others opposed to 'first past the post' have a point.

Scary almost when you look at it so closely.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, it's weird how if just the right number of people vote in just the right places it can really skew the overall out look and result.

But it's better then it was, when a few old guys determined who ran things.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Very much so.

Oh, yes!