My Illinois 5th Vote
I have done it, I have voted for “None of the Above” for the Illinois 5th Congressional Seat. I was thinking about not voting for two reasons. First, the real election was weeks ago during the primary, because who every wins the democratic ticket is basically automatically the winner of the seat. I predict a landslide as usual. The second reason is that all of the people on the ballot were idiots. I even went to the trouble of looking at all of their website, because one of the things I really hate is how people vote the party line no matter what. Out of the three (Democratic Party, Republican Party, and Green Party candidates), I decided that there was a 0.01% chance I would vote for the green party candidate Matt Reichel if on the way to the polling place I was hit by a car and the only things I could remember is that I was going to vote for the 5th congressional district seat and Matt Reichal said that president Bush should have been impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. Other than that, they are all a bunch of idiots who would only make this world a worse place.
Also, I hate when people say that you can’t complain if you don’t vote. If the candidacy is between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, or between a steel chain or a carbon allow chain of slavery, you can choose to not choose.
Anyway, I would not have voted, but I was reading the Probability Broach by L. Niel Smith (a wondering fiction and non-fiction writer and co-founder of the Libertarian Enterprise) the other day. This book is about a cop living in this world who is thrown into a parallel universe which is basically a libertarian utopia ever since George Washington failed to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in that reality. In that alternative world there is always an option for “none of the above” if you can’t stand the idiocy of any of the candidates, because who “will die if there is no president?”
So, I thought that this would be fun, and a small protest against the usual suspects that appear on the ballot.
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