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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6463 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 21009 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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How Do You Increase Youth Voting?I think Chris has the best idea yet: If Pepsi and Burger King can give away a free song download with food purchases, why not the government too? Yep, when you vote you get a free song download. Hell, since this voting thing is important, give the people two free music downloads!Sounds like a grand idea to me! 4 CommentsOzguru said on 09/16/04 @ 12:06 AM:Wouldn't that encourage people to vote more than once. Heck, it would encourage me to vote and I'm not even American..... Jake said on 09/16/04 @ 08:49 AM: They could vote 5 or 6 times -- as long as it kept bush out of office ;-) In Oregon, we have mail-in ballots, and places that don't, each voter is required to go to a specific place to vote, as their name will be at that place. Chris Burkhardt said on 09/16/04 @ 11:25 AM: I'm 20, so this is the first presidential election I'm eligible to vote in, but you'd have to give me more than $2 worth of pop music to get me involved in all that sillyness. A whole lot more. On second thought, you couldn't even buy my abstinence. (This is my first comment here, by the way. You have a very nice looking (and functional) weblog, Jake. It's in my news aggregator and everything.) Joe said on 09/16/04 @ 12:32 PM: It might get people to vote, but it wouldn't get them to care about making an educated choice first. My feeling is -- if someone doesn't take the time to actually understand the issues so they can make an educated decision, I'm perfectly happy if they stay home. Don't be a sheep at the polls. Look at what the candidates are actually DOING (not just the image they portray and what they say, but what they really do) and THEN vote. And give me the free songs. Post a comment |
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