True Tales of Midterm Elections!

The Orange County sample vallot and voter information packet arrived at our apartment yesterday and I was flipping through it this afternoon over a mid-afternoon snack of tacos y cervesa when I came to the page describing the new "eSlate Voting System With The Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail." It has a picture of a sample ballot on some crazy futuristic voting device on which some hypothetical Orange Couny voter has already filled out his choices for the upcoming election. They are:

President -- Abraham Lincoln
United States Senator -- Frederick Douglass
Governor -- Cesar Chavez
Attorney General -- Alex Haley*

Oh man! What a dream team! Our hypothetical voter not only bridges time and space (as far as I know, only Cesar Chavez actually LIVED in California) but is so confident in his selections for those four offices that he hasn't even bothered to vote for County Judge or Proposition 1, leaving them blank with "No Selections."
I am so stoked about voting now!


*I did not know who this man was, so I looked him up. Apparently he served in the Coast Guard for 20 years, including during WWII, interviewed many notable personages for Playboy Magazine and wrote the book Roots, which basically means he would be the best Attorney General ever!!