Civic Doody

I voted this evening. It couldn't be any easier for my lazy butt. Our precinct is located around the corner in our neighborhood elementary school. I was listening to Sean Hannity on the way home from work. He was blabbering on and on about voting machines not working and voters being denied and turned away unjustly. A few thoughts came to mind. Number one was, why can't a reliable voting machine be built? We can send a man to the moon forty some odd years ago and we can't build a simple voting machine. It's not like the machine has to clean the house or even figure out the square root of 3006775. All it has to do is display the candidates and tally the votes... it can't be that hard - can it? The second thought has to do with the candidates that felt the need to bombard our house with phone calls. All last week, in the evening, it was never ending. I would come home after work and find 4 messages from some guy telling me that old Sonny Perdue was a crook and that I needed to vote for Guy Smiley. It was funny that today I took the boy to school and when I came back home there were 3 messages in the span of twenty minutes telling me to get out and vote today. When will the politicians realize that the "mud slinging" and endless phone calls/mailers do nothing more than piss me off. Talk about the issues you damn educated idiots!