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13:38 November 6th, 2008

Laundry puts new spin on voting!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Blog Guy, I intended to vote on Tuesday but the lines were really long, and that’s my day to do my laundry.

I understand, that’s a perfectly good excuse for not voting in a historic election. But officials are looking for ways to make the hours you spend waiting at the polling station more productive.

If you had voted at this precinct shown below, for instance, you could have done your laundry and voted at the same time! And the other polling station was at a pizza place, so you could eat and vote if you’re careful not to drop melted mozzarella into the machine.

Wow! are they planning to expand this?

Sure. A swimming pool in Florida plans to let you vote while hanging onto an inner tube. It’s called the Vote ‘n’ Float! A chain of convenience marts will offer voting at their Vote ‘n’ Tote! drive-through. A sheep farm in Wyoming is going to let people vote at the…

Stop! Let me guess. The Vote ‘n’ Goat?

Bingo! A polo club in Connecticut has put in plans for a Ballot ‘n’ Mallet…

My Lord! You don’t know any more about this than you do anything else, do you?

No, but this misinformation is at least more topical.

Slideshow on odd polling places

Election judges eat lunch as a voter casts his ballot at Angelos Pizza in Chicago, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/John Gress

Voters cast ballots at Su Nueva Lavanderia in Chicago, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Frank Polich

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