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WhiskerBiscuit writes "The boys at Am I Hot or Not have started a sweepstakes to encourage people to register to vote. According to this blogger's analysis, the contest should encourage disempowered people to register (subject to the constraint that poor people don't have computers). The organizers have cleverly split the prize between a lucky winner and whoever happens to have referred them, providing a selection advantage for viral dispersal of the meme."
The other problem is that the 'Politics.slashdot.org' section should be politicsusa.slashdot.org
do they select you for jury duty using voter registration records? everyone i have ever talked to who has been selected for jury duty has been registered to vote... is this a coincidence?
Obligitory warning - heavy liberal stuff ahead
I choose NOT to vote for the republicans this time around becuase they have been unconstitutional since day 1 in office. And even before office. What is the first thing you do when you decide to run for president (besides start thinking off who's votes you can buy)? You choose your running mate.
Cheney is from the same state (although he "claims" residence in Wyoming he is a resident of texas) that bush is from. BIG NO NO when running for president. This is a givin. People from the same state will probably have the same intrests in mine. Secondly, I don't like the big business tactics that have been put in place. I remember a time when I could call Dell, or god forbid Compaq and actually speak to a representitive that knew what they were talking about if I was having a computer issue. Not so now. I'm not talking down upon people from india, but i've yet had one resolve any sort of problem i've had - well, there has only been one regarding a canon printer that I actually broke down and called tech support... later a friend told me the solution (it was deleting a key in the registry). I talked to their reps for ages... all they told me to do was uninstall the drivers and try again.
Third, I don't like an Administration whos key intrest is business. Does anyone remember the 60 scientists, 20 of whom were nobel lauriets, who came together to protest what was going on with the Bush Admininstration EPA? If not, just search for it.
I could go on, but I need to go to zoology and learn what species are going to be extinct becuase of people like cheney who are looking out for number one.
Oh yea... I won't vote for Bush becuase this is the first time in HISTORY (yes EVER) that a country has gone to war and gave a tax relief - plunging the national debt down the whole. And who will pay for that? Well, probably me, right around the time I get out of college, and if bush gets relected, my kids will most likely be paying for this crap of a war that has made 1% of the people in this country even richer.
Aristotle once said "A vibrant middle class makes for a wonderful democracy." As our middle class shrinks and our upper and lower grows, you will see our liberties and freedoms deminish more than they have already.
And I pitty the fool who might mod this down as I gave the obligitory liberal warning before I started this rant. (which could go on for ages, slamming bush politics)