Election day. Time to get out there and cast your vote, if you haven’t already. I took care of mine civil duty to the democratic process this morning before heading into the office at what must be the most efficient poling place in all of New Jersey. In less than four minutes I signed in, stepped in the booth, cast my votes, and got interviewed on the way out by a Columbia journalism student about my voting in general, and the Menendez / Kean senate race in particular.
What’s more, I’m fairly confident that my votes are actually going to be counted, which is more than I can say for some of those new computerized voting machines. I can’t help but think that someone out there with more brains than I could build an open-source, secure voting system that would be about a billion times better than any of those crooked Diebold machines coming on-line.
Tonight is going to be spent much like election night ’04 was: with a beer in one hand and a remote in the other as I watch the results come in, hoping against hope for a better turn out and some new leadership in the House and the Senate (though there’s a slimmer chance of the latter).