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Disenfranchisement - an Allegory
I was disenfranchised when we voted this month. Let me tell you what happened:
According to all of the materials I got in the mail, voting happens on Tuesday. The rules, as written, say that I was supposed to show up at my polling place on Tuesday. I read these rules beforehand, and I understood them.
However, I decided that despite what the rules said, I wanted to vote on Sunday. I wanted to get an early jump on voting, since I didn't like the schedule that had been established. I showed up to my polling place on Sunday at about 1:30, and it was closed. They wouldn't let me vote! I wanted to vote on Sunday, but they said that I was too early, that I was trying to vote before I was supposed to! I was disenfranchised!
In fact, there were a whole bunch of people hanging around the polling place, and they all wanted to vote on Sunday too! We are being discriminated against - we are disenfranchised! We wrote down all of our preferences on pieces of paper, and we were earnest and passionate about our preferences, but no one counted our votes! I'm incredibly angry about this.
I have to admit, I knew what the rules were. I was informed of the rules beforehand. I was told specifically that if I showed up on Sunday, my vote wouldn't count.
I want them to now retroactively change the voting rules so that my voice can be heard.
PS. I hope that this allegory doesn't need to be decoded.
Comments (5)
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that voter disenfranchisement was happening here. How dare you not be able to vote when you want to in spite of rules that say voting on Tuesday only not on Sunday. Shocking!!!!
June 14, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why should anyone obey the rules established at the beginning of the game? Especially since we have a precedent, now, that the rules can be changed.
June 14, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is real disenfranchisement. This is what it is like. Quit your bitching you have never been treated the way these people have been treated when trying to vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8_3Lk3x8fA
June 15, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
mageduley:
You do realize that Peter is being sacastic here, don't you?
June 15, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, I did not notice. There was another disenfranchisement thread that was similar, but serious. I thought, skimming through this one, that it was along those same lines.
June 15, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
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