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You Can't Drink Beer, Look at Porn and Vote at Home; You Have to Drink Beer, Look at Porn Then GO Vote

Posted by Emily Farris


We're all for increasing voter participation, and you'd think most government officials would be, too. But not if it involves people voting online for Poland's former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who isn't excited about a "young person sitting in front of a computer, watching video clips and pornography while sipping a bottle of beer and voting when he feels like it."

Young people voting—the horror! No, he'd rather you sit at home, watch porn, drink beer and then get in your car and drive to the polling place. OK, maybe we're being a little hard on the guy, but anyone who's going to drink beer and vote is going to do it in front of their computer or do it before they get to the voting booth. And what does he have against porn, anyway?

Also, we're not really sure what this image from the musical "Avenue Q" has to do with any of this, but it's the one Engadget used and we couldn't think of anything better.  

[Engadget: Former Polish prime minister opposes online voting, says Internet users are all watching porn]


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Comments

JCF said:

Don't know what the image has to do with the article?  Well then, you need to join us in a rousing chorus of "The Internet Is For Porn", a song from the musical.

There are lots of good reasons why Internet voting for real candidates is bad in general, but I'm not going to type them all here.

March 13, 2008 8:56 AM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, "Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven" was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

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