Yep; I always vote. I voted on House of Delegates and some county positions. Nothing interesting to report.
And so it came to pass! I was gonna disown my home state if we re-elected someone as moronic as Fletcher.
I voted. For the library levy, the mental health levy, the police levy, and even the city operating cost levy (all replacements).
Also, we had a mayor race, a few school board members, and a few other various things. It was a great time!
Brendon Small
Sure the elections were weak, but what about that vitally important ballot question on whether to swap an acre of state parkland with some town upstate?
In my Manhattan district, we had that ballot question and eight or nine judgeships, about half of which were candidates cross-endorsed by the Democrats and the Republicans and for other half there were only Democratic nominees.
Me too. I’m a poll worker, so I voted several times. Kidding, of course, but it was another long day, made longer by my two co-workers. The three of us divvied up the duties, but there’s not enough to do so these two ladies are forever jumping in each other’s shit (and mine) and confusing the voters. Voters don’t need three people telling them to “sign here” and “darken the oval”.
Anyway, we re-elected the mayor and one city council member, and elected one new council member. 36 people voted. Not a bad turnout, for an off-year.
I cancelled your vote on R-67. If this would have been in place 3 years ago my sister in law would be in much better health than she is today.
I was rewarded with such a sticker. Perhaps the poll workers in your area decided to keep them all for themselves?
Brendon Small
I’ll be voting again soon. Turns out there was some confusion about whose council seats were being filled. I thought that ballot looked wrong so I called the county auditor this morning. We thought there were two openings on the council – there are three. Something about someone being appointed to fill a vacancy awhile back, and that spot needed filling.
So we get to vote again! :dubious:
All we had were the usual judgeships (including retention elections, where the judges get to ask to keep their jobs), school board and borough council. No ballot questions.
And, yes, I voted for Seamus McCaffrey. Because I could.
Robin
I voted! I was kind of annoyed that there is still no easy way to find out what is going to be on your ballot in advance. But I had fun using the write-in candidate function for the first time.
Mrs. Piper and I went out for our morning run, then dropped it at the polling station (the local Unitarian Centre) on the way home. Pretty quiet - in and out in less than 10 minutes. Now we wait until 8 CST to hear the results.
No, but we had to vote on whether or not to remove language from the Texas constitution authorizing the Office of Inspector of Hides and Animals.
OK, back in after the results.
Every single candidate for whom I voted won handily. Amazing.
I’m a Democrat, and I live in a very Democratic county that is often referred to by downstate mouthbreathers as The Peoples Republic of Arlington.
Virginia is getting bluer all the time. It used to be fairly red. It might be an important swing state in '08. I hope we don’t punk out like Florida or Ohio (not that it was their fault 
).
I couldn’t vote, because the blasted post office screwed up my ballot. I didn’t get it in time, so I couldn’t do anything. (In fact, I don’t know if I got it at all, because after I realized the deadline for sending in the ballot itself had passed, I didn’t bother to check my mail again.)
However, the races I would have voted in were not particularly close, so it could have been worse.
Roofer Bob didn’t win, but he might have been a big factor. The incumbent mayor got a little over 45% of the vote, the Democrat challenger won, with just under 50%. Roofer Bob got 3%, and Ty Bibbs, a write-in candidate, got 2%. Without the two mavericks, the incumbent might have won.
Democrats took over the city council, 7-2.
In Iowa, voters can drop off their absentee ballots at the polling place, or they can vote a provisional ballot. I don’t know if that’s true everywhere though.