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I don’t need to say anything about this:

via A Cup of Jo

Political emails

Over the past week or so I’ve been getting some very political emails, which is appropriate given how close voting day is. This is one I got this morning:

Take a moment

———————————————————— PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified. Apparently the republican party platform knew about this in  advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes. The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by mainstream  media. It can influence undecided voters in swing states. Please do two things — takes 20 seconds. 1) Click on link and vote yourself. Here’s the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html 2) Then send this to every single Obama-Biden voter you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on. The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers think Sarah Palin is qualified. please pass it on!!

And also, I’ve been completely confused by these facts from Rock the Vote:

Today’s New York Times article was dead wrong.

You may have seen the article today accusing Rock the Vote of giving you the wrong address to mail your voter registration form. This is not true–Don’t let this sloppy journalism scare you.

Rock the Vote’s online registration form, when printed, gives you the address for the New York State Board of Elections to mail your registration to.

According to the United States Election Assistance Commission, this is the correct address. But we wanted to double-confirm, so we also checked with the NYS Board of Elections. Twice, in writing, the Board of Elections confirmed this is the correct address to send registration applications. (check out the emails!)

However, the story did uncover a different problem. It appears that the New York State Board of Elections is not processing some voter registration forms in a timely manner. (Rumor has it there are at least 35,000-40,000 forms in the backlog).

Please check your registration TODAY at https://voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us/votersearch.aspx. Please email us at Vote@rockthevote.com if you have encountered a similar problem.

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This is a truth: I have never cared about politics, especially in America, and I still can’t say I care a whole lot, but I definitely care more than I used to. It’s hard not to be aware of the political dilemma right now since it’s everywhere, especially in the form of parody (such as SNL). An interesting article was written, Saturday-night Politics, in the New Yorker last week that swayed me, check it out here. At this point, regarding voting, I feel like I’m choosing the lesser of two evils.

~Kiki