# Are you voting today? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414 "2006-11-07T13:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/101 "2006-11-08T01:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I will also miss the thousand-year-old poll worker who has been manning the station in my precinct for as long as I’ve lived in my present location. He’s irritating in that endearingly well-intentioned way (“what’s your name?” / begins paging through voter rolls, the wrong direction, every single time), and while his befuddlement may be mildly annoying I’ll be very sad when he’s no longer sitting behind the table. [/QUOTE] If you like, I’ll see if I can ship you ours. He dragged a half-dozen people away from the voting machines, insisting that they had to initial next to their address on the registry – each one, shouting all the way that they _had_, and sure enough, they had. Mind you, I was voter #21… And I’m miffed that I didn’t get a voter sticker to wear, yet I see lots of MO voters here _did_ get 'em. _grumble_ ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/102 "2006-11-08T02:01:51Z")
Yep, voted this afternoon. I always vote when I have a preference, though occasionally I’ll look at the candidates and just not care. Today, though, we had a couple of big ones in TN: The Ford/Corker Senate race, and a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. So I made sure to get over to the polls and spit in the wind. (I strongly suspect my side will lose both of those.) ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/103 "2006-11-08T02:19:35Z")
I always vote in every election, except the primaries. Florida’s are closed, and the lovelies at the local elections office continually fail to permit me to register D[emocrat]. My voter card always says L[ibertarian]. I resubmit my registration every yearish, but they fail to update it. Today went quickly as normal on our [Sequoia](http://www.sequoiavote.com/productguide.php?product=AVC%20Edge&type=Introduction) machines. I’m not as distrustful of them as I am of the Diebolds, and I’m also fairly confident in our elections office. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/104 "2006-11-08T02:54:38Z")
Voted on my way home from work. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/105 "2006-11-08T04:22:54Z")
Voted before work, and scored the little “I voted” sticker too. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/106 "2006-11-08T05:09:58Z")
Yes I voted today. I vote in everything but the primaries also. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/107 "2006-11-08T09:27:19Z")
I did vote today, and I usually do. I registered at the last minute in 2000, when I was 18, and I know I also voted in 2004. Right now I can’t remember whether I voted in 2002 or not, so I’m guessing I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/108 "2006-11-08T10:29:13Z")
I voted. I was the first voter, about a dozen through the door before me but I had all my votes on a card and just had to transfer them to the ballot. This meant that just like in 2004 I got to inspect the ballot box and sign my name saying I saw no shenanigans going on. I love voting. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/109 "2006-11-08T11:10:56Z")
I was the 859th voter at our place at 3pm. My husband, at 5pm, was just over 1000. According to the Old Lady Volunteer Brigade at the polls, it was the largest turn out so far for Non-presidential stuff. I’m curious to all Votin’Dopers, how big is your district, how long did you wait and stuff like that there. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/110 "2006-11-08T15:10:27Z")
Update: Got to the polling place at 5:30, stood in three different lines (this one to fill out the form, this one to get my electronic voting card, and this one to actually get to the voting booth), and managed to vote by 6:45. Came home to watch the last half of an HBO special letting me know that since I had voted on a Diebold machine, chances were my vote wouldn’t really be counted. Watched the election returns to find that of the ten candidates I voted for in various elections, the only one who won was running unopposed. I don’t feel civic right now. I just feel stupid. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/111 "2006-11-08T15:52:45Z")
Yesterday - on 45 seperate measures. I usually vote. (Primaries & General elections. I even show up for Presidential Caucuses). They had 1 electronic machine that the poll people said only about 10% of the voters were using. And I know my area is highly absentee, so the polls weren’t that crowded. I did see parents taking their kid to the polls, which was a great sight - I remember my parents doing that and it made voting seem important and special and one of the things you get to do once you’re grown up. ---
**Author:** ![JediMaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@JediMaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JediMaster)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/112 "2006-11-08T16:01:44Z")
Mailed mine from overseas - doubt it’ll be counted. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/113 "2006-11-08T22:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] I missed voting in the 1992 presidential election by less than three months. Congratulations on your first time voting, and now get off my lawn, and turn that damn music down 😉 [/QUOTE] Thanks! Yea, it was rather disappointing to not be able to vote in the presidential election, but I was quite excited to cast my vote for the first time. Sorry about the music too, the dial seems to be stuck on 19-yr-old volume 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/114 "2006-11-10T04:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=Jess] Damn – they don’t do that anymore? Or do you mean you no longer live in California? [/QUOTE] The latter. Sorry I didn’t make that clear. I strongly agree with your comments about California’s neutral analysis. I think there should be a Federal law or a law in every state that requires all registered voters be provided such information in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414/115 "2006-11-10T04:37:47Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I am voting today. The choice for governor in Michigan is like choosing between Taking Arsenic or Taking Strycchine. I think this may be the first year I bite the bullet and vote the same way as Mr. Ujest. Might as well be a united front as the toilet swirls downwards. [/QUOTE] I guess (but hope I’m wrong) by those comments that you both voted for the Evil Mr. Amway, the despicable cretin who was so incredibly _desperate_ to rule Michigan that he spent – get this folks – **$35 million dollars of HIS OWN MONEY** to buy the Governorship, hoping to recoup his expenditures by enriching himself, his **ultra** -conservative, dominionist/fundamentalist family, and his pals with grotesque business tax cuts and other perks. He would have liked nothing better than to have been able to turn Michigan into a theocracy. Fortunately, the whip-smart, incredibly hard-working Democratic Governor, Granholm, won in a landslide (13 points or so). If that’s poison, I’ll take it any day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-voting-today/379414.md?page=5)