Liam Keane » vote or die http://www.liamkeane.com explorer/gentleman Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:12:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I Voted http://www.liamkeane.com/2005/11/i-voted/ http://www.liamkeane.com/2005/11/i-voted/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:37:38 +0000 Liam Keane http://www.liamkeane.com/2005/11/09/i-voted/ Continue reading →]]> Yesterday I voted for the first time. It was pretty exciting to get a ballot and fill it out. My appreciation of the event was increased because a few days prior, my sociology professor had shown a documentary that illustrated the end of South African apartheid and focused on the momentous occasion it had been when Blacks were finally allowed to vote. I was glad there weren’t mile long lines in front of my polling place.

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However, voting wasn’t what I expected because there were no candidates to vote for — only propositions. This made it a little anticlimactic. And none of the eight propositions passed. Wow. That’s a great use of what, $250 million in state funds? Thank you Governor Schwarzenegger — oh well, at least I had fun.

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