Monday, November 05, 2012
Somebody gets it right
Accuweather discusses how the weather is likely to affect voting patterns, bringing in a professor who knows the counties and the demographics and so on.
Working from west to east, they first note some rain moving into Seattle, and then dismiss it immediately: "But they vote by mail up there, so it won't matter."
EXACTLY RIGHT.
Then they spend several minutes on the NON-MAIL states, with painful details about how each thunderstorm or snowstorm or Superstorm Snooki might affect D or R turnout in this county or that city.
Highly unusual and refreshing to hear a national news program that understands the truth. With mail voting, NO DRAMA IS POSSIBLE. Storms can't affect the election, Black Panthers with baseball bats can't affect the election, misinformation about polling places can't affect the election, deliberate closing of polling places can't affect the election.
NO DRAMA and NO HURRY. Voters have time to think and mark in privacy, officials have time to count ballots carefully as they arrive over a two-week period.
Contrast Accuweather with this writer for local TV, who doesn't understand mail voting. Clearly the writer has never voted here; maybe she's actually in India working for some outsource outfit like Journatic.
¶ 7:18 PM 
