{"id":13322,"date":"2012-11-05T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13322"},"modified":"2012-11-05T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:23:07","slug":"voticons-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/11\/voticons-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Voticons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately it is rarely the case that you pull the lever on a candidate and think wow this person is the perfect moral candidate. Unfortunately in are present system when you vote for someone there is no really good public way to mark your displeasure or that you are voting for them with reservations.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a solution though for this problem. When you read message boards and some blogs you can see the use of emoticons for people to be able to mark the related emotion to what they are saying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/emoticons.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the advent of so many LCD touch screens in the voting booth just how hard would it be to able to add emoticons with each of your votes? When the emoticons are tabulated politicians would see exactly what you really think of them. Right now a vote appears to them to be an 100 percent vote of approval. It would be great for their humility to get a 80 percent &#8220;yawning&#8221; and a 10 percent &#8220;grossed out&#8217; along with other ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Though the standard emoticons are really not expressive enough. I suggest a new category for voting machines &#8211; Voticons. Here are some possible Voticons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/voteholdingmynose.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/>\u00a0Holding my nose while voting for you<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/votelesser2devils.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"40\" \/>\u00a0You were the lesser of two devils<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/votingspew.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"39\" \/>\u00a0After voting for you I think I am gonna spew<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/voteembarrsed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"40\" \/>\u00a0I am embarrassed to have voted for you but you sucked less than the other person.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/voteprolife.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"41\" \/>\u00a0I voted pro-life, please don&#8217;t disappoint me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/votesplit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35\" height=\"42\" \/>\u00a0Used for politicians where you are &#8220;split&#8221; between liking him one day and hating him the next.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/votewallet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"46\" \/>\u00a0Remember this is my wallet not yours, please vote accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/voticon_devilyouknow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"46\" \/>\u00a0I am only voting for you because &#8216;better the devil you know than the devil you don&#8217;t&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/voticon_robpirate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"46\" \/>\u00a0I suspect that you will not rob me like a pirate as much as the other guy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/voticon_baby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"46\" \/>\u00a0I vote pro-life and you are less murderous than the other guy.<\/p>\n<p>Now in some situations I guess you could actually use one of the normal smiley emoticons, but this seems rather theoretical to me.<\/p>\n<p>And here is one last one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/votehang.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"42\" \/>\u00a0&#8220;It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.&#8221; G.K. Chesterton<\/p>\n<p>What are your ideas for Voticons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately it is rarely the case that you pull the lever on a candidate and think wow this person is the perfect moral candidate. 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