Election Day
Saturday, November 5th, 2005 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanni...is just around the corner, and signs are popping up at the intersections of all the Usual Routes. Most of them are stapled to little bitty furring strips, which are so flimsy that during low-rain periods they sometimes break while they're being pushed into the ground. Fortunately, we've had a lot of rain lately and the ground is still pretty easy.
Other, classier signs are wrapped around two thin wire legs, which are then shoved into the ground. These signs sway back and forth in the wind, and are quite pretty, as long as you don't try to read the words.
Both of these sorts of signs are subject to the occasional bit of vandalism, since the first breaks so easily and the second is so lightly anchored to the earth. Honor dictates that the signs not be vandalized, but in issues which are particularly emotional, honor is sometimes seen as, um, a secondary consideration.
But the signs. This year, we have a New Sort.
The signs for question 1: Vote YES to Preserve Marriage and Protect Maine (yes, we're voting on this AGAIN. What is it, five times, now?) -- those signs are mounted on Serious Lumber. I mean, you could stake a vampire with any of those posts and then use them to build the ladder from which you (obviously) intend to peer into your neighbors' bedrooms.
By contrast, the Vote NO on Question 1: Maine Won't Discriminate signs are mounted on the traditional furring strips, and I've been noticing that they're disappearing from the intersections where they were previously posted, to make room for more Protect Maine signs nailed to 2x4s.
Lot of wind in these parts, lately.
If you live in Maine, do vote on Tuesday. Thanks
Other, classier signs are wrapped around two thin wire legs, which are then shoved into the ground. These signs sway back and forth in the wind, and are quite pretty, as long as you don't try to read the words.
Both of these sorts of signs are subject to the occasional bit of vandalism, since the first breaks so easily and the second is so lightly anchored to the earth. Honor dictates that the signs not be vandalized, but in issues which are particularly emotional, honor is sometimes seen as, um, a secondary consideration.
But the signs. This year, we have a New Sort.
The signs for question 1: Vote YES to Preserve Marriage and Protect Maine (yes, we're voting on this AGAIN. What is it, five times, now?) -- those signs are mounted on Serious Lumber. I mean, you could stake a vampire with any of those posts and then use them to build the ladder from which you (obviously) intend to peer into your neighbors' bedrooms.
By contrast, the Vote NO on Question 1: Maine Won't Discriminate signs are mounted on the traditional furring strips, and I've been noticing that they're disappearing from the intersections where they were previously posted, to make room for more Protect Maine signs nailed to 2x4s.
Lot of wind in these parts, lately.
If you live in Maine, do vote on Tuesday. Thanks
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Date: 2005-11-05 08:54 am (UTC)Of course, no expense is too much when we are being protected by (see icon).
*rage*
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Date: 2005-11-05 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-06 04:13 pm (UTC)I did my voting already, and I can assure you that there wasn't anything nearly as exciting on the ballot here in Pennsylvania. We got to vote for judges and school board members mostly. I'm working at the polls on Tuesday, and in a different ward than where I live, so I had to do the absentee ballot routine.