Europe Election

Just voted absentee for the European elections this coming Sunday. I have poll duty and want to take my break to go see the Handball All-Star Game, not to vote :)

There are 31 (thirty one) parties on the ticket, most of which I have never heard of. I seriously considered the Pirate Party for a moment, but there were only men on their list, so I found another one. Took me quite some time to read all the names - and then fold it up so that it fit into the teeny-tiny envelope provided.

I wonder how many people will bother to vote?

US Presidential Candidates

There's a cute poll on over at 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

My results were:

85% Dennis Kucinich
84% Mike Gravel
77% Barack Obama
75% Chris Dodd
74% Joe Biden
73% John Edwards
73% Hillary Clinton
67% Bill Richardson
45% Rudy Giuliani
39% Ron Paul
39% John McCain
34% Mitt Romney
32% Mike Huckabee
20% Fred Thompson
12% Tom Tancredo

I have never heard of 5 or 6 of these people. At least the colors are sorted right. I am shocked that I agree with Huckabee on about a third of the issues. I wish the results would show me which issues it is that I agree with them.

Lucky me, I'm not voting over there anymore. Although they keep sending me voter registration cards, they don't seem to have a procedure for informing officials when people rescind their citizenship.