Comments on: Driving To/From Polls May Be Hazardous To Your Health

By: charly

charly — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:47:25 +0000

My guess is that more miles are driven on election day that the day before and after. Especially by drivers who drive rarely. Also the voting booth is in area where many drivers rarely go to so it is uncommon for them.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:34:49 +0000

(Drinking while voting is probably not a wise activity).

Yes, do like me and wait until after voting.

With the genreal depression about the choices not being offered to us among most of the people that I work with, I think it might be more informative to see what the suicide rate looks like from election day up to 7 days later.

By: violent_k

violent_k — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:07:22 +0000

Drinking while voting is probably not a wise activity

I respectfully disagree, kind sir.

By: joeaverage

joeaverage — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:43:33 +0000

Am considering not even voting. My grandfather did alot of that but I teased him about it. Maybe he saw a few more decades of no real good choices.

Maybe I’ll just go vote for some third Libertarian candidate just because…

By: Samuel L. Bronkowitz

Samuel L. Bronkowitz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:43:16 +0000

I’m glad I voted early… I had no idea what a risk I would have been taking.

By: yankinwaoz

yankinwaoz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:31:35 +0000

Let see…
I go to vote. I get to choose option (A) Tweedledee or option (B) Tweedledum for prez.

How about option (C)… I throw myself under that bus?

By: SunnyvaleCA

SunnyvaleCA — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:09:39 +0000

It’s less exciting than voting in person, but here in California you can register to be a permanent vote-by-mail person. You might think someone could design the ballot to require only a single stamp to mail in, but even at $0.79 it’s worth the time savings.

By: chuckgoolsbee

chuckgoolsbee — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:38:09 +0000

Of course the issue is distraction. Driving to the local library or fire station, someplace we never go any other day of the year. Finding a parking spot, usually in the rain. Having to deal with those insufferably cheerful blue-haired old ladies from the League of Women Voters who operate the polling places (who did all the work prior to the 19th Amendment anyway?) Then of course being forced ONCE AGAIN to choose between two lousy options because the complete bipartisan domination of the process that has destroyed just about everything the framers created. Then reversing the process to get home all while contemplating the futility of the coin-flip nature of our “choices” offered.

It is a wonder the first Tuesday of November doesn’t look like Death Race 2000 when you think about it.

–chuck