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

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