246 Days and Counting

Please: 246 days until Election 2004 sounds like a long time, but if you're not registered, please get yourself registered to vote. And if you are registered, check to be sure you are (names have a strange way of rolling off).

And whatever you do, VOTE. Your life depends on it.

Like some of it, I didn't always exercise my right. I felt too defeated by the system to bother. But with John Ashcroft and Company at hand, it's one of the few rights we continue to have.

Election 2000 taught us that some people will do anything to stop certain others from exercising that right. For example, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered another purging of voting records for felons, which is likely to result in a number of people whose names just "sound" like those of felons being purged, too. [Ed. note: Once someone has done their time, I cannot conceive why they would be kept from voting. The whole point is to get people "back into the system" and denying them rights is not the way to do that.]