Post this in your Livejournal!
Virginians! The gay marriage debate is coming to your ballot this fall. The legislature has proposed a really nasty amendment to the state constitution that would, as a founding principle of the Commonwealth, prohibit gay marriage and civil unions. This sort of discrimination is a shocking affront to Virginia's residents and the lessons we should have learned from our history -- this in the state famous for Mr. Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights! -- and we need to send a message to Richmond that we won't tolerate it.
It is critically important that you register to vote -- and do it today. I mean, you're reading LJ. Like you have anything better to do. Print out this form and send it to your local government's Board of Elections with a photocopy of your drivers license1-- it's that easy. If you are in Fairfax County, that address is:
12000 Government Center Pkwy Ste 323
Fairfax, VA 22035-0081
Register to vote. If you have ever loved me, post this in your LiveJournal. We need to energize Virginia and get us youth to turn out at the polls in November.
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I'll still be 17 :(
*I'll still vote even if it's true, don't fire!
Absentee voting is a little annoying, because you have to remember to register for it, but is there really a much better way?
I certainly cannot suggest a better way, though. Maybe some kind of universal voting machine linked to a magical central computer (run by Diebold!), but that would be even more sketchy! :D Horray! Democracy!
[Beth is too lazy to do "View Page Source" and too stupid to figure it out for herself...]
To do that sort of box, you do <textarea&;gt;things in box</textarea> -- sadness could ensue if you try to nest a textarea in a textarea (does it evaluate character entities!? I don't know!) and anyway I feel like there's an infinite recursion problem somewhere in there as soon as I try to put the contents of the textbox inside itself but I'm not sure why that has to be. Aaaaaah!