PS- To add, so that I don’t completely steam-roll over the format, Yes I always vote. I don’t think we’re a ‘house divided’ but my wife and I seem to agree on politics 360 days a year. Usually its the week before elections when she starts the ‘but both parties are crooked’ rants though. I never ask her who she votes for or why, but I will raise a stink if I find out that she couldn’t be bothered to vote.
Nope, but I wish I could. I’m not an American citizen. I did have a “Had Enough…Vote Democratic” lawn sign out for the past several weeks. I’m in Tom Delay’s old district so with the voting confusion I expect it to go for Lampson.
Nobody in my house is able to vote (wife and SIL). My wife would probably vote similarly to me but is more moderate. The SIL isn’t very interested and probably wouldn’t vote but she is being heavily influenced by her homophobic conservative boyfriend so she potentially would vote Republican.
I went to vote on my way to work this morning, in the rain. My name wasn’t on the list at the conveniently-located place where I’ve voted for 8 years. So I drove around in the rain for a while until I found my new, out-of-the-way voting location. I voted, put on my I’m-late-to-work-because-I-voted sticker, and went to work.
I voted before work this morning. I always do.
I vote in every election be it national, state or local stuff. Heh, I was one of all of about 50 people who voted for a SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) referendum last year at my precinct. It was for money to build a new middle school in the county.
My office has a union contract that requires all workers be given three hours off (with pay) to vote in major elections. Not only will I be voting this afternoon, but I’m encouraging my staff to vote as well. Karana bless America.
Voted last week. I always vote, even for the city council races in the spring.
And dalej42 needs to get out there and vote for the Kinkster for governor! And drag all of his buddies to the polls. And bring mom and dad and sister too.
But of course, never miss!
We’ve got problems and it’s the only way to elicit a change. Plus, If you don’t vote then you’ve no right to eat pickled beets and drink the juice from the jar… or complain or something… one of the two.
We live in an all mail-in ballot county. I voted last week. I always vote. I don’t live in a house divided for the most part; on some local issues we don’t agree and cancel each other out but on actual representation we’re on the same page.
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I’ll vote on my way home from work this evening. I’m looking forward to my chance to fire Rick Santorum!
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I missed the 1992 election because of health reasons; other than that, I’ve voted every year since I was naturalized and even voted in most of the primaries. There were some primaries, however, which there was nothing for me to vote on since I was registered as an independent. I still stuck my head in the door.
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No.
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Used to, but not anymore. In 2000 I voted by absentee ballot in Florida and my candidate fought to have my vote thrown out. In '04 I tried to vote but after waiting in line for almost 6 hours, the polling place closed before I got in. So screw it, I’m done. I’m disgusted with the whole process.
- I already voted.
- I always vote. You have no right to complain if you refuse to take part.
I’ve never cut it close, but I may have to this year. I always thought that if you were in line by the time the polls officially closed, they’d have to let you vote if it took til Midnight. Is there a straight rule across the board? Jeeeezus! That’s terrible!
We’ve had those voting tablets in my precinct for a while. (I’ll be voting this PM.)
Former Representative Tom DeLay’s old district just switched to the tablets. Since he quit after the primary, the Republican candidate is “write-in.” Which now means guiding the rotary wheel to each letter of the candidate’s name, then hitting Enter–until the voter has input “Shelley Sekula Gibbs.” (Heh.) Voting a Straight Republican Ticket will NOT give Dr Sekula-Rodriguez-Gibbs a vote. (Heh again.)
Voting on the way home from work. I’ve voted every major election, but rarely the little ones, and only one primary (during a presidential election year).
I have no idea whether or not my husband will be voting, and if so, for whom. I haven’t asked. In general he never votes and never wants to - he thinks that it doesn’t make a difference, and I can’t talk him out of that viewpoint. But he hates Bush enough that he actually registered and voted against him that year.
Will be voting this afternoon.
And for all you Democrats feeling out of place, this Republican in Maryland sympathizes completely. Most of the Democrats are running unopposed, and Erlich and Steele are considered unlikely to pull off a victory.
Not that that’ll stop me from being all quixotic.
Voted already. Have been doing so for the last 12 years.
I took about a 4 yr. break. I’d moved a long way, and didn’t feel like I understood the local culture and issues well enough. (I moved from a fast paced urban setting, to a very laid back semi-rural area) The presidential candidates provided (H.W. Bush v. Dukakis) did nothing for me at all. I took the attitude that “Voting for politicians only serves to encourage them.”
Though he later went off the deep end, Ross Perot actually inspired me to start voting again. So now I try to vote for the lesser of two evils.
Our Congress critter is slinging the mud very hard this election. Seems she has bought the most TV ad time of any candidate in the country. She actually does a good job for her district, but rubberstamps anything Bush wants, unless it is an issue that won’t be close anyway. She makes a big deal of the few times she has gone against W, but can’t point to a single instance in which the ultimate outcome wasn’t exactly what W wanted.
So I voted for the Dem running against her. I figure it is win-win. If the Dem wins, it may help lose the house for the pubbies. If the pubbie wins, she votes in my interest.
I voted last week, by mail. Voted since 1975, when I turned 18. I vote for Presidential elections and important elections such as gubernatorial elections, which this year has. I’m in Arizona.
An Ehrlich win wouldn’t surprise me much at all.
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I am finishing up getting ready so I can go vote before class. My address is screwed up so I have to go to one of the big poll places that anyone can go to.
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I am only 20 and I did vote in the 2004 presidential elections.
I think I was the first person at my polling place this morning. I might be the only person on Earth who wakes up and get’s excited about it. I was early.
I’ve voted in everything I’ve ever been able to and volunteered at a voter drive and sign up in college.