So we vote

The legal run around on the recall has been turned down and the ACLU (which didn't publish a news item about the decision) isn't going to push the issue further. Good!

I think the recall itself is stupid and wasteful, but that's the way it is until some group (or person) finances a proposition (and the lemmings vote yes, yes, yes). At which point, we'll get to play again in the court system.

Trying to stop the election because chads are harmful was stupid. None of us has any real idea of how badly electronic elections can turn out (but the initial analysis is far from good). I don't trust any system which can't be audited from end to end. That's my nature and a big part of what I do. We'd better get the problems out of the eVoting systems soon because that's where we are going.

My votes? No and no idea.

I haven't developed amnesia since I last voted for Governor. I voted for Davis because the California Republican Party can't seem to get a reasonable alternative past the primaries. Bill Simon? Hahahaha! I'm somewhere in the middle (fiscal conservative, libertarian and/or liberal elsewhere). A vote against the recall is my affirmation that you don't get to turn back the clock and start over regardless of how badly you screwed up (and I may yet live to regret that idea).

The leading candidates are all disheartening, and yet, I hate to toss my vote into the wastebasket.

We've got Cruz (a typical party apparatchik), Arnold (I was enthused when Buffet had a say for about 13 seconds, everywhere else we have the Wilson *touch*) and McClintock (a Wilson supporter when it didn't make sense, he opposed Wilson raising taxes to balance the runaway budget in the early 90's — that's a fiscal conservative?)

We shall see...