Too many ways to do your duty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1331840,00.html
The overload of choice US voters face in casting their ballots is
worse than confusing, argues Sarah Left: it is taking the romance out
of democracy
Thursday October 21, 2004
There is something romantic about queuing up to vote on election day,
huddled in a snowy lane together with your fellow citizens, all come
to do your democratic duty on a cold day in November.
When you make it inside the library or community hall or neighbour's
garage that serves as the polling station, maybe a pot of weak coffee
awaits, or a pile of Danish. If you vote in the morning, you may be
provided with a little sticker that says: "I voted. Have you?" This
allows you to share your enormous sense of self-satisfaction with the
world for an entire day. Nothing could be simpler.
Sarah Left
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