Random Thoughts – Advance Poll, Tattoos, IQ Test and More
May 25, 2018
1. Today, I stopped by the St. Catharines returning office to cast my ballot, marking my first time voting in an Ontario provincial election. Though there were no problems, it turned out to be a little different experience than what I was expecting. I walked in and was shown to a desk, then after the clerk checked my voter card and photo ID and found me on the list of registered electors, she began filling out a long “Special Application Form” on legal-size paper that I had to sign attesting that I was a Canadian citizen 18 years of age or older and that I lived at the address stated on my voter card. Then she handed me a ballot. Not a standard ballot where you mark an ‘X’ next to the name of your chosen candidate. But one where I had to write in the name of the candidate. For reference, the names of the registered candidates were provided in the “voter screen,” but one could just as easily vote for Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear or Wile E. Coyote. Those who have been calling for write-in ballots would no doubt be thrilled, but the whole process seemed, so, well, antiquated, for lack of a better term. Moral of the story: It’s an advance poll. It’s not an advanced poll.1a. As tempting as it was to vote for Duke Willis or the Libertarian candidate, I held my nose and voted for Sandie Bellows, as she has the best chance to unseat the ghost of Jim Bradley and hold off the media-enhanced threat of the Communist Party.
1b. There’s a good slogan for her campaign: Hold your nose and vote for Bellows.
2. Going through Welland earlier this week and seeing all the derelict homes with bums and assorted riff-raff roaming the streets, to say nothing of all the abandoned factories around town, it is not hard to figure out that poverty is the only thing on an upward trajectory there. Yet Wellanders do not seem to be short of cash to cover themselves in pretty little tattoos. It makes you wonder sometimes.
2a. It also makes you wonder why those same people keep voting for socialist parties whose policies have been primarily responsible for them being out of work and poor. A ballot can also be thought of as an IQ test, one that far too many people fail.
3. Though I continue to lament our lost spring, I like that temperatures have warmed up and that winter is now behind us. One unfortunate part of summer, however, is the amount of blubber on display. For the heavyweights out there, please consider dressing more modestly.
4. Dear Microsoft: I appreciate that you are on top of things and provide Windows users like me with the latest security patches. But please stop using those updates to shove unwanted Windows Store apps that I’ve uninstalled numerous times down my throat.
5. Did this company just assume the boss’s gender?
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