In The Booth

Part V of a series | Part IV | Part III | Part II | Part I

In the previous installment of How To Survive The Midterm "Elections", we talked about the need to disconnect from the propaganda and listen to yourself, even if only for a little while.

Today we will assume that you have listened to yourself enough to understand what you need to say, and we will cover the various ways in which you can express yourself in the "voting" booth. As far as I understand it, you may have as many as three options.

You can simply "vote" once and go home, just like other people do. It's easy, and completely legal, though it may be somewhat ineffective.

If you're fortunate enough to be "voting" in a jurisdiction that uses Sequoia machines, and if you know what you're doing, you can "vote" as many times as you want to. It's easy, and although it may not be completely legal, there's no way it can be detected. So you're pretty safe with this approach. And it may be a bit more effective than only "voting" once.

If you're fortunate enough to be "voting" in a jurisdiction that uses Diebold machines, and if you know what you're doing, you can change all the "votes" that have been cast before you arrived. If you don't know how to do it, Marty Kaplan can teach you in this short video. Surely there was never a more trenchant demonstration of Aesop's famous line: "He who "votes" last, "votes" best!

Part VI