h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just came back from voting. I voted for the Republican candidates for Governor, Senate, and the House of Representatives.

I was upset because I live in Georgia's Thirteenth House District. It's a gerrymandered district meant to ensure that a black democrat was elected. The district looks like a large spider smashed on map. My highly conservative area is near the interstate, so it was included to link black democratic areas. Now I have no fear of having a reprehensive in Congress to represent my views until I move.

Strangely enough, my state house district changed along with the gerrymandering. The new state house district seems to be a highly liberal one, and the republicans didn't even bother to put in a candidate.

The area where I live is actually very conservative. In my county elections, the democrats rarely bother to put up a candidate.

For the most part, I voted against new taxes, and I voted for libertarians except when there wasn't one, then I voted republican.

I did vote for a democrat for Secretary of State. Cathy Cox has done a really good job for many years. She has introduced computerized voting, which I tried for the first time today.

The computer voting system is okay. I did see one lady who was very upset, because she couldn't review her vote. She pressed the wrong area of the screen. Instead of scrolling down to review her screen, she pressed 'Cast Ballot'. The system makes it very easy to do write in candidates, which I did for one judgeship. I never really saw the problem with punch card voting. If you check the card, you'd have to be a complete idiot to have a hanging chad. Hence, the discounting of many democrats vote in Florida in 2002. I don't see how it makes much of a difference. Still, if people are more comfortable with this system, then I'm happy to have it.