Just in case you doubt, no, I'm not answering the phone.

[kyrielle]

Not until after the elections. Most of the live callers stopped sometime last week, but the recorded messages continue. Many of them are for local measures and people; perhaps a quarter of them are just reminders to vote. I'm astonished that most of the others are wasting the effort.

Why? Because Oregon is a vote-by-mail state. We all had our ballots a couple weeks back. There are drop boxes in addition to the option of mailing it in. A lot of people - myself among them - have already voted. And yet, they're still calling. I suppose that makes more sense than sending out flyers, anyone who was going to be prompted by the flyers has been, but I want these pre-recorded idiots to get off my phone.

Not picking up inbound calls until after the bloody election.

Other than that it's a good day, though! Grey, rainy, very prettily dim out. Time for me to head off to work (and leave this laptop to defrag its hard drive...unsurprisingly, what a mess!).

Comments

Hey...alt least your vote matters!

[capnbuckle.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side: Your vote actually matters. In Texas, a 60% majority essentially has the right to _silence_ my vote for President. The more I think about it...the less happy I am with the Electoral College. I don't mind the "edge" it gives to less populous states. However, I don't like being silenced by the "tyrany of the majority".

I wonder about the practicality of a Constitutional amendment requiring state electoral votes to reflect the breakdown of state popular votes...or at least the breakdown of congressional district votes. But then Texas is a prime example: That would just lead the party in "power" to redraw the district lines as needed to shutout the dissenting populace.

Republicans would never let this fly, though. The current "all or nothing" appropriation gives them too much leverage for them to give it up, regardless of whether it is "proper" for a statewide majority to silence my voice in the presidential election.

But then, I'm probably just bitter, and being a "sore loser".

Re: Hey...alt least your vote matters!

[kyrielle]

Personally, I think (and this is not a political analysis, it's a 5-second tired-brain thought) it would be cool if they had to vote along percentages. The rounding would be a bear to work out, though, other than favoring the statewide winner. So if you had a state with 5 votes in the electoral college, and they voted 60% A, 40% B, then A would get 3 votes and B 2 from that state. I don't think you could do it well because of the rounding issue, though...but...something, darnit, something! :P