> > I seriously don't get why it irks me to no end that people who are perfectly capable of driving to (or in one instance, walking literally around the corner and half a block to), getting out of their car at, and walking into a polling place, people who have no out of town business or dependent relatives, people who pay their traffic tickets and dog license renewals on time, register for absentee ballots.
> >
> > I don't want to understand why they do it. I want to understand why it annoys me that they do it.
> >
> > Discuss.
> >
> >
> > - M
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> Because they're getting out of having to do something that you do have to do. People are always annoyed when other people get something they could get themselves, but just haven't been bothered enough to do so.
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> They simply have to post a form on the way to work. You have to take time out to go and scribble an X on a piece of paper, (or pull a lever or whatever you do), thus wasting five or so precious minutes they don't have to.
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> Of course, that may not be it at all...
>
> Beasty


See, that's the thing. I *like* going to the polling place. It's in a church around the corner, so close people would laugh if they knew I drove there (on my way to work, of course). Even if it were not so convenient to get to, I *like* going in and standing in line with other voters and punching out the cards and making sure no chads are hanging, and handing in my vote. I love that part of the process.

So it's not a matter of envy at all. (Besides, I'm much more likely to berate myself for not having thought of it or taken the trouble to do it than I am to have disdain for the person who did think of it -- I'm lucky that it's in my nature almost always to cheer the victor, no matter my own plight.)

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