September 27, 2004
New Voters Project (or) Praxis, Baby, Praxis!
I’m volunteering for these guys a bit now. It’s the largest non-partisan voter registration drive ever, and in Iowa City the numbers are looking good – voter registrations between 18 and 24 are up about 1,200, or roughly 7%, in Johnson county over the last election year. This is not necessarily the ideal volunteering opportunity for me, as I was looking around for some more frankly partisan projects, but they just weren’t as accessible – so I figured I’d be better off spending my time actually doing something positive immediately, rather than looking around for a more perfect thing to do. Anyway, though I imagine a lot of the people working and volunteering in the NVP are leftists, the project is definitely nonpartisan in practice – today I helped register a bunch of business students. As a man who loves to have his stereotypes confirmed, I was quite pleased that most of the students were stone-faced in their indifference, and the professor was clearly barely putting up with our political twaddle. She apparently wanted us out of the way so she would have plenty of time to teach America’s future overweight middle managers what a mouse is (I’m not kidding).
Anyway, yeah, I helped register business students. It’s an act whose morality I’m still contemplating.
Kidding.
Sort of.
Don't worry. They sound too apathetic to vote anyways. For every one that does vote, though, you'll spend an extra 1,000 years in purgatory.