Justin Wyatt

I Voted

Posted by Justin under Personal, election

So Last week or so I submitted my absentee ballot.  I personally did not have any trouble recieving it, but I’ve read several articles like the one linked below.  It seems those deployed have the biggest issues, and being so close to the election and them being overseas I don’t see the ballots making it by the deadline.  I know for the most part these absentee ballots are not even counted unless the election is so close which is another article all in itself.  With the incredible amount of these absentee ballots that must be submitted between my fellow service members and American’s who are at large around the world it could easily swing an election in certain districts with high populations of this microcosm.

I feel it’s probably one of the most unnerving things you can do in our “democracy” is to throw away someones vote, after all it’s the only ’say’ your average person has in this government.  It is the most disrespectful thing I can imagine, you’re effectively stomping out that citizen’s voice.  I have no idea how it has come to this but I know for this blogger it is not for this reason that I chose to volunteer to serve in this voluntary military of America.

Just thinking about this fills me with so much disgust for the policy makers that I want to puke, and go into convulsions or something.  Perhaps it is not intentional but if it isn’t, it surely is the most beneficial bureaucratic coincidince in recent history.  I know there were tens of thousands at the least in the 2000 election in Florida alone which was the election swinging state, so obviously this is a huge issue.

All I know is that I voted, I tried to do my part, so the way I see it is I can bitch all I want about the outcome because I actually tried.  Now whether the lawmakers deem my vote worthy of being counted is obviously up to their self-appointed-I-decide-whos-vote-counts selection process…for lack of a better term.  (I will definitely get the thesaurus out later and find something for that one)

By the way I voted straight-ticket Libertarian so I know those that get caught up in the faux two-sided political coin will see this as throwing my vote away anyway.  Perhaps in your eyes I should’ve voted for Barrack Obama but I think the “change” I see this country needing is much more radical than the one Mr. Obama is preaching for.  Maybe someday but I don’t see it happening anytime soon, especially with the huge debt we’re burying ourselves in more everyday.

Hope they count your vote.

BTW, here’s the link that I was referring to:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/11/01/2008-11-01_those_who_fight_but_cant_vote.html