Self Portraits: Election 2004
Attention Readers:
If you live in the US, you should be voting very soon. And what better way to remember the event, than with a photo? All the action will be taking place behind the curtain – a place that ONLY YOU can go. C’mon America! Let’s show the world what our democratic process actually looks like!
So go in that booth and then take a picture. You can snap yourself before marking your ballot (keeping the results to yourself), during the vote (perhaps posing deep in thought?), or after (flashing the horns, tongue out?). I really don’t care. In fact – I don’t care who you vote for. I just want to see you, in the booth, doing the deed. Voting, that is (no nudity, please).
Seriously. If you have a digicam or cell phone cam – bring it along. Shoot a quick portrait and then.. shoot it to me by uploading your photo here. If you fill in valid info (no reason you have to – x’s will work, too) then the pix will sort by name for easy location. I’ll post the “results” in a special Election Portraits gallery a couple of days after the election.
And please – pass/post it on!
—- Notes —
11/1 @ 5pm
Some places (such as Wisconsin) don’t have curtains – in which case you are SOL, as they say. You should not take photos outside of a curtained booth, or try to photograph the polling location itself (even though private investigators are doing this in Florida for… undisclosed interests). The only person’s privacy you have the right to invade is your own!!!
However you *can* submit a drawing of yourself voting, a triumphant “I voted!” picture (make it creative!), and so on. I’ve already recieved mail from people who will submit photos of themselves voting absentee, or of the deli counter where they voted early. Ha!
11/2 @ 12 pm
For info on how things are polling, see Andrew Tanenbaum’s amazing poll statistics update page. Note that recent changes in electoral vote predictions are due to two Fox News polls and a third Republican poll – if you disregard them, Kerry is up by over 60 electoral votes. If the site goes down (there have been some attacks) you can see the mirrors at electoral-vote3 and electoral-vote8.
