King County Elections at Bumbershoot encourages YOU to vote
As I was walking through the sea of people at Bumbershoot yesterday, not only could I not figure out what country I was in, but what county (I explain below). The day was filled with strange outfits, foreign music, and more Rockstar energy drinks than you can imagine. This is quite a different crowd than you'll find at your average fair in Eastern Washington. I really think that they need a good tagline for advertising, and based on my observations, I supposed that if you can do the Puyallap, then you can smoke Bumbershoot. Or at least pot.
But what caught my eye even more than the 14-year-olds smoking cigarettes and people wearing Obama v-neck t-shirts was the King County Elections Booth. They were encouraging people to get registered to vote and to vote by mail. They put up this poster for people to see: 
This picture disturbed me because it made me stop to think about what kind of world I live in now. Is this really what voting has come to? Is this the kind person that we really want to decide who controls our government?? This is the literal and actual poster child for voting! Give me a break. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with choosing to style your hair, pierce your body, or wear leather, but the point is that someone at King County elections, a "non-partisan" office decided that it would be a good idea to advertise voting with this picture. When you wonder about how fair the elections will be in King County this November, seeing things like this doesn't give me a lot of "hope."
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This is where our problem lies....
The most beautiful and "in fashion" have just as horrible of a tendency to make poor choices or unintelligent statements when it comes to politics (let's just take one little blink at Hollywood). Sure I can see where you'd be a little shocked to see a punk kid on the voting thing. But welcome to Seattle. As long as that person on the poster has an intelligent backing for her decision to vote, I'm cool with it.
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Yeah, it's a good point Ben. Weird choice of picture for this poster.
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