Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Line-Ups (Or: Hand Me the Keys You...)

I've been reading a few blogs saying that the line-ups at the polls are stretching down the street. This could either be voter enthusiasm or, as one emailer to the Corner points out, an indication of election official incompetence.

Beware the Corner today, by the way; there's a lot of talk of booze - not champagne, but scotch, martinis, and the regular run-a-warm-bath cocktail recipes. One guy's even quoting a Time article from 1980 to give him comfort. Many bloggers there are also using inspirational movie clips to make it through the day, with stuff from Gladiator and Patton. Lame. I've got my own pick below.

I've been wondering about the long polling station line-ups for the last couple of weeks. I know Canada is a much smaller country than the US, but we have our act together compared to these clowns. Whenever I vote at the little elementary school down the street, I see a lot of people heading to the school with registration in hand, and lots of cars in the parking lot, but things are moving along fine. When I get to the school, I show my diver's license, wait about 20 seconds, go to the booth, vote, and walk away. Every year I get told to go to the polls early in case of line-ups, and every year the fifteen or so old biddies get the job done in a flash.

It is not a very difficult concept. If you have a lot of people voting, you should open more polling stations and hire more workers to man them.

Election tampering, though, is a different story. We'll see how many of those tales we get today.

Speaking of line-ups, here's a clip that always makes me crack up. Warning: foul language. Turn it up so your kids can hear.

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