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| Hey, Democrat-district voters: your polling station is on the other side. |
"By and large, election officials, it's our job to make it easier for people to vote, not harder," said a Greene County election official in Dayton, OH.
Au contraire! The ordeal of voting is a test of one's economic station and democratic mettle. You should be willing to risk losing your minimum-wage job, and even swim across a moat full of man-eating alligators if you really want to get to your local polling station. (Ideally, they'd have to pass through the Game like Kurt Thomas in Gymkata, but that would be too expensive to organize, unfortunately....)
Naturally, if you're fortunate enough to have a salaried position and your home county has excess funds to pay for early and extended voting, well... that's just one of the benefits that accrue to upstanding Americans who work hard, live right, and live in the right place.
To make sure that only the right people vote (wink-wink), we should make voting downright inconvenient and during work hours, when wage-earning commoners are least likely to go to the polls. Because if they do vote, they'll just choose the candidates promising more government benefits that we property-owning lords of the manor must pay for. And I say, harumph-harumph and tut-tut to that!
By Dan Froomkin
August 18, 2012 | Huffington Post
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