ELECTION DAY

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American Residents will be going to the polls tomorrow, but here's a vote any reader can participate in.  Feel free to expand on the reasons for your choice in Comments, though try to keep the discussion single-issue.  If all goes as planned, I'll be discussing both the survey and select Comments during the BBC's coverage of the US mid-term elections.  (Not so strange when you think about it; with 1.25 million+ registered users and growing, and 60% of the user base American citizens eligible to vote, Second Life Residents are on their way to becoming a considerable constituency.)

Update, 11:27am:  Evidently, I'm suffering my own private Diebold: the Vizu political poll is currently hosed, and no longer tabulating.  Will post an update when it's restored; meantime, please post your write-in ballots in Comments.

Update, 12:03am:  Democracy is restored, or something; polling seems to be back and running smoothly again.

To fire off the topic, here's a few possible reasons for selecting either party:

On the plus side: the first major politician to campaign in Second Life is a Democrat; the first national politician to announce a position on not taxing Linden Dollar earnings is a Republican.  In the negative ledger:  the leading politician to call for government censorship of video and computer games is a Democrat; the leading politician to criticize the network neutrality act by calling the Internet "a series of tubes" is a Republican. 

Discuss and vote!  Like Election Day, this poll also closes tomorrow.

Comments

[Guyver]

"American Residents will be going to the polls tomorrow"

perhaps, but only "American Citizens" will get to vote.

[Talon Lardner]

Ow, my RSS reader...

Still don't know who I'm voting for, as the Michigan governer race is a bigger slap fight and attack fest then a wrestling federation can claim to give in a show.

[Liberty Otawara]

Nice of you to mention the Libertarians - the only folks with even a semblance of a world view that would allow something like SL to function the way it should...

[Guyver]

Nice of you to mention the Libertarians - the only folks with even a semblance of a world view that would allow something like SL to function the way it should...

Posted by: Liberty Otawara | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 at 03:07 AM

Please. If Libertarians had ever achieved any kind of power at all, we would never have had one of the greatest public works of all time, the internet.