Election Day Misinformation -- The Office Desk Phone -- The Non-Vote Bloat

But beware any text messages that tell you that voting hours or locations have changed, that new forms of voter ID are required, or that your voter registration is not valid.  NYT.  @kevinroose 

A gullible voter got text

that his polling station was hexed.

He wore garlic wreaths,

a string of bat teeths,

which made polling judges quite vexed.

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At home and work, technology habits have changed a lot over the years—and then there’s the office desk phone. With people carrying smartphones everywhere, a segment of the workforce has a hang up with the clunky office versions. Employees find them annoying and complicated, if they use desk phones at all.  WSJ.   @jenniferlevitz 

The office phone remains to me 

an ever-lovin' mystery.

It lights up like a Christmas tree

and plays a ring tone symphony.

Each button is the apogee

of any kind of clarity.

If I were Trump I would decree

that office phones are history!

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About half the country’s eligible voters don’t vote — well more than that in most midterms. Yet in a situation such as Tuesday’s election, with the nation divided into relatively equal-size groups of locked-in partisans and control of Congress and some state capitals depending on closely contested races, nonvoters in their own way hold great power. In dozens of battlegrounds, especially in politically essential suburban House districts, it’s the habitual nonvoters who control the margin.  Washington Post.  @mffisher @kristinegWP  

I never voted in my life;

who needs that kind of noisy strife?

Instead I write these lyric lines

(as trite as many valentines.)

My head and heart are in the clouds;

I leave all else to fake news crowds.

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