Post-Election Analysis

Well, another election has come and gone. For some reason, other bi-annual events, such as the Olympics, seem to get me more excited than elections. My first attempt to vote in the morning met with disaster, as apparently I became a west-sider by simply moving a block away from my previous residence. I was sent to another location, but I couldn't go that morning due to this job that doesn't recognize the non-existent holiday of Election Day. So after work, I made my way out to vote.

When I made my way inside, it was a relatively happening little place. I had to wait about 45 minutes before taking part in my civil duty. And as I stood there in front of that glorious machine, with that fantastic digital LCD screen containing all those magnificent pixels which, in conjunction with specific pixels around it, spelled out the names of hundreds of people I had never heard of before in my life.

Ha, I kid! There were actually a dozen or so that I vaguely able to recall, but due to conditioning from the political advertising in the area, I thought I was looking at a list of convicted criminals. When I was finally finished selecting those that I had actually scrutinized the credentials for (and one where I just thought he had the funniest commercial), I finished by pressing the LARGE RED BUTTON. I thought I would need someone there to insert and turn a key alongside myself while doing it, but it turns out we can press it ourselves.

So that was my voting experience. And am I the only one who always subtracts a single vote from those that I voted from and thinks to myself "Whoa, if I hadn't voted, she/he would have only received 1,234,342 votes"? Probably.