voting

I attended a meeting at the local college.

At one point the college chaplain took the stage and announced that he was going to ask a series of questions.

He further said that the questions would indicate in a very non scientific way how the students were doing.

So, he asked that the room be darkened. Totally dark.

“How many cell phones?” He asked. Maybe a couple thousand people and nearly that many lighted cell phones were held high.

“How many of you had real turkey for Thanksgiving, raise your phone.” Lots of phones.

The questions moved from entertaining and light to serious. “How many of you are struggling here at the college?” Many phones.

And so on.

What amazed me was the universaility of cell phones in that group. The second was the injunity of the whole project.

Voting by phone. Not a phone call, but a phone light.

Who would have thought.