Ok, I just went what looks like the Online Voting Information Center for the Colorado area. Since I automatically got registered to vote when I renewed my Driver's License in July, I should be ok. They promised me the county district or whatever would be sending more information to my address before the election.

Let me say it right now: If these guys do not get their act together, they are going to have MAJOR voter anger on their hands come November 5. (That is the date it is happening, right?) After all the appearances of fraud from the Florida 2000 elections, you would think polls would have learned their lessons. But did they? We shall see.

I've already been hearing bits about it on the radio in the morning. Voters being almost forcefully corralled into these parties labeled "Democrat" and "Republican", and being required to register as one or the other before they may vote for a candidate. I was so concerned yesterday that I used my cell phone to call the number they gave.

Turns out: That's just for the primaries. So when the two parties come up with their usual parade of almost identical looking candidates in November, we may vote for whomever we please. Yipee! I feel so much better about our democracy, representative republic, or whatever.

The insanity is further compounded when you consider that I had been pondering MOVING OUT of my apartment when my lease ends at the end of October. Supposing they were to try jacking up my rent by $500, and I were forced to move to another district, how would I get my registration updated in time to VOTE there?

What's worse: If I continue to follow with my current long term ideas, I probably WILL be moving out in December, and finding a home in a nice little trailer park district. Or something. So when I do vote on November 5, whatever candidate I do help to elect could end up representing a district I no longer live in by the time he/she actually takes office. Grrrrrrrr!!!

It's complicated, yes. But I do intend to VOTE on something, somewhere, even if fraudulant pollsters end up throwing my ballot to the wind. I probably will still be here, but making preparations to move out, because I can see that living expenses in this area are clearly outpricing me already, even if I were to remain indefinitely at my current job. It is nuts.

So anyway.... My general rule is that any idiot incumbant who voted FOR crap like DRM, DMCA, anti-freedom "Patriot" laws, and all the other gunk that's been clogging up our legal system will be on the way OUT as far as I am concerned. Of course, local issues are trickier, because those can be harder to follow when watching tv news. And the newspapers in this town are almost all owned by the same company. (Rocky Mountain News or Denver Post? They're both the same parent company now. Yuck.)

Gotta watch closely, and remember: Get to the Voting Booths on NOVEMBER 5. (Then, AFTER you have voted, run to Best Buy and reward yourself with a Babylon 5 season 1 set, provided you can afford it. Heh.)