Semocracy 2012

Waiting to vote.  Broome Street.

D800.  1/160, f4.5, ISO 7184

I remember in 1952 NYC had these state of the art voting machines that just required flipping a series of levers and were very efficient.   Elderly immigrants would go into the booth and machine gun a straight Democratic ticket in about 3 seconds and be out of there.   This year there is a new system that provides a paper trail.  It caused incredible delays.  Voting machine hysteria is like vaccine hysteria and terrorism hysteria in boarding planes.   Everyone's life is made a little more miserable because the irresponsible and infantile nature of our public media.

When I saw the line, I seriously considered not voting this year.

What else do we expect of mortals, I guess.

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Frank
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