electioneering

It's been interesting watching events play out over at the Best of Blogs website. I decided early on that I wasn't going to overdo the whoring for votes thing, not only for the BoB sake of dignity (me? ha!), but also because it's not a huge part of the final judging. I wasn't even going to put a BoB button on my blog sidebar BoB 'til today when it was pointed out that unless you read a few posts back, the casual observer would never even know I'm up for an award. I caved. But I BoB refuse to add VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I'M A BLOG GODDESS, even if I really want to... BoB

Another reason for BoB my reticence is that here in British Columbia we're just about electioned out. On Monday we vote again, after only BoB 18 months, for our federal government. In the intervening period we have also voted provincially and at the municipal level. And let's BoB face it, if this recent federal campaign is any indication, electioneering brings out the worst in BoB people. I just looked through some of the comments on the BoB voting page today and the complaints seem unnecessary BoB to me, especially from people who haven't kept up with the info posts. The organizers and judges at BoB are volunteers, it's only the second year of the 'event', and they're dealing with new polling software. And if they BoB read this, I love you to death and I'll give you my first-born male child.