Pollywogs!

A public service announcement from Kell:

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If you’ve been paying attention to the news concerning the Presidential primaries…….Jesus Christ will it ever end?  This crap has been going on for weeks and weeks and weeks.  Why can’t every state just vote on one Tuesday???? Does it really need to be stretched out this long???  Anyway, if you are a resident of Pennsylvania (and you are a citizen of the US, and you’re 18 or older) and you’d like to vote…what 6 weeks from now? Fucking 6 weeks?  So you want to vote, I want to vote, Garrett wants to vote, lots of people want to and SHOULD vote…but wait there is a catch, you have to be registered as a Democrat or Republican to vote in the primaries…….Say What?  WTF??????  How absurd is that?

Well, as a registered Green party member (or Libratarian, I can’t quite remember and I don’t have my card on me) guess what I have to do in order to cast my vote 6 weeks from now?  Yep that’s right, I need to change my status…I must affiliate with the lemmings.  I am left with only one choice as I am certainly not going to register as a Republican (gag).  So I think to myself, ‘what a freakin pain in the ass’, WTF kind of bullshit is this?

Cursing under my breath (not really) I begrudgingly make my way (via reddit.com) to http://www.dos.state.pa.us/voting/cwp/view.asp?a=1192&q=442984 in order to succumb to “the man”.  Al the while thinking that this is completely whacked and that it will be such a pain in the ass.  Well, it wasn’t.  If you are a new you can actually fill out the form on line but if you are in my position, you have to print the form and mail it to your local county office (addresses are provided…YAY!).  Simple, nothing to it.  Print, fill out, slip it in an envelope (or I believe you can just fold the paper in halve and write the address on the page) and slap a stamp on it. Viola!  One more important thing:  You MUST have this completed 30 days before the election…I believe that means you must have it postmarked by MARCH 21!

What the heck was all the bitching for? Easy peasy. Oh wait, I forgot…I had to actually change my status to participate in this election.  Ridiculous!…but I’ll get over it.

If you aren’t registered, do it now!  If you are registered as something other than a Dem or Rep…change parties now!  And if you are considering voting for anyone other than Obama…you need your head examined!