It was damn sweet for me. My wife was like MsRobyn. She opted not to hit the straight party line vote button just so she could specifically vote against Santorum.
I voted straight Democrat with glee, and I still got to see the little check mark that would finger PRick’s prostate.
It frankly boggles my mind that y’all don’t have standardized voting procedures. 57 different voting methods, varying from state to state, county to county, and seemingly even polling station to polling station. How the heck do you get valid results from a system like that?
I’m not MsRobyn, but it felt fan-freaking-tastic!
CapnPitt, I’m not a huge Casey fan either, but my hatred of Santorum is so fierce it more than makes up for it.
Oh, and I hate the campaigners. Our’s were right inside the fire hall entry way. You know, if you don’t know, mere minutes before going into vote, WHO to vote for, please, just stay the fuck home.
:rolleyes:
:smack: Sorry, what did I misspell? 2006 Erection Thread?
It doesn’t give a valid result. It’s just smoke and mirrors hiding the actual election results that are decided in a rock-paper-scissors contest among the Illuminati, Masons, Jews, Roswell Aliens, and Elvis
I gloated silently while filling in the box for Casey. I would have done it out loud but the polling place was in a Methodist chapel and I thought it would be inappropriate to be so gleeful…
Officail
Sometimes we have to burn down courthouses or not count votes to get the valid results. But you know us - it’s that “can-do” American spirit!
I voted at 2:30, no lines at all. We still have the optical scan ballots that we started using 4 years ago.
I can’t say I was entirely pleased with the process, though. Before you get approval to feed your ballot in the sucker thing, you need to check in with the name checker folks one more time. While you stand there waiting for the check, you are standing in front of a table of 5 volunteers (and anyone else waiting in line, should there be one). Meanwhile you’re holding a double-sided ballot with big black ovals filled in. It would be pretty easy for anyone who cared to see how you voted. The same for the volunteer who stands next to the machine while it’s being fed in. Seeing as all the volunteers are the big names in town, I was a bit modest with my ballot, practically tucking it in my jacket. (I’ve already made an “enemy” of one of the check-in volunteers for being outspoken; she snubbed me. Ahh, small towns.)
Yeah, I know I’m probably on the paranoid side.
On the other messageboard I frequent, my usual opponents on the debate board* (who outnumber my side by about 10 to 1) are mourning Santorum’s loss. Here’s an actual quote: “I love that guy.” It boggles the mind.
How sweet it is.
Who said we ever got valid results?
I’ve been voting since Jimmy Carter first ran and I got a method I’ve never seen or even heard of before. You have a huge sheet, full on both sides with candidates, and beside each name is the front of a thick black arrow, then a blank spot, then the end of the thick black arrow. To vote you used a black pen they gave you (you couldn’t use your own pen) and you filled in the empty space between the beginning and end of the arrow. Weirdest damned thing I’d ever seen. I felt like I was in kindergarten, drawing the outline of each middle arrow part, then filling in the middle until it was all black.
It took a long time too, and there were about a zillion judges, none of whom I’d researched, shame on me. I voted to keep them all, figuring that in Chicago, I was pretty safe that most of them would be liberal. Yeah, I know…I should have been prepared. On the first page, I voted for all the Democrats (you couldn’t pay me enough to get me to ever vote for a Republican again) but it doesn’t tell you if the judges are Democrats, it just asks you if they should stay, yes or no. Argh. I’ll bet most people don’t even bother. I miss the punch cards, but I was very glad to see they weren’t using touch screens.
Then you take this huge piece of thick paper filled with names and arrows, put it into a huge sleeve, then go put it in a machine. It’s like a dollar bill taker on vending machines, you put it in only so far, and the machine whisks the ballot out of the sleeve, which you then give back to the nice old gentleman waiting there for it. Odd, but interesting.
My husband is down in Kansas City working as an election watcher (or whatever they’re called). He’s big and burly and would scare the crap out of any partisan pipsqueak who tried to intimidate voters. He figured he was needed more there than here, and from this thread, if Missouri is having problems, he’s right.
All right! Just a few short hours until the victory speech of the NEEEEEEEEEEEEW GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, Rich Whitney of the Green Party! Can you feel the noise?!?!?
crickets
Fine.
At least I helped to boot MarK KirK* out of the Illinois Tenth District.
(*I knew, I just knew I shouldn’t have read The Architect!)
Oh Jesus Christ, Keith Olbermann just talked to a reporter at Santorum HQ here in Pittsburgh, and the Santorum camp is already going to file election complaints about Republican voters being prevented from voting, or not having their votes counted, or whatever.
Yeah, sure Ricky boy, whatever you say.
:rolleyes:
[sub]asshole[/sub]
Of course, now that he’s out of that job he wanted to be close to, Santorum will move back to Pittsburgh.
Right, Bricker?
New Mexico’s absentee ballots used to be like that. I think in both 2002 and 2004 it was fill in the arrow. Now it’s fill in the circle, but I’d assume that would be so the state can standardize on one set of optical scanner now that the entire state has gone to paper ballots. Of course, I was doing it with a #2 pencil while sitting in my dorm room.
Hehehe…good point. I actually let out a yelp of glee when Keith announced the results.
Now, I just have to hold out hope that Melissa Hart will be out on her ass.
Wa-a-ait a minute folks! If Santorum moves back to the house he allegedly lives in, that’ll put him within 10 miles or so of me! Show some mercy, won’t you?
Voting was a snap and a joy. I tried out the touch screen machines during the primary election, and for once my polling place was completely free from campaigners despite the rain. I didn’t quite vote straight ticket – I voted against Mike Doyle just to keep him on his toes – but I did enjoy thinking about getting Santorum out of office all day. It seems like a good system to me. Not only do I get to indulge my anarchist streak by overthrowing the government, I get to vote against an incumbent I genuinely dislike.
Dances With Cats, if you’re reading this, if Santorum loses, I will joyfully do the happy dance around this thread with you!
I wish I could have voted against old horse face. I had to try to dislodge Tim “Snatch” Murphy. Whoever heard of a Republican psychologist?
It looks like the Denver/Colorado voting just got worse as the day went on.
Fucking Christ. Two hour or more waits, lines of up to 300 people, computers crashing left and right, people leaving the polling places without having voted because they couldn’t bear to stand in line any longer…and no extension on the voting hours. What a fucking mess. I have a friend who is working on Perlmutter’s campaign…he took the day off of work do help out, and I can only imagine that he’s foaming at the mouth right about now.
Well, see, here in the big city we have electricity, which allows us to use computers and suchlike to tally our votes. And I know that Lee’s Summit has electricity, I’m being a smart-ass.
Seriously, though, you’ve not seen the touch screen voting machines? Gotta say that they’re pretty cool, but I don’t trust 'em a lick this time. And we had punch cards until today. Big-assed optical scan cards or electronic are the only choices being offered us right now.
Just saw that Prop 2 is a helluva lot coser than I’d like it to be.
Oh, please, chipmunks can’t accomplish a damned thing. Y’wanna go with badgers in a situation such as that. Trust me, I’ve seen what a pissed off badger can get done, and it’s quite impressive.
Whereas the schmuck who was telling people to vote against 2 at my polling place seemed fully aware that he was out of his league. Stood quietly and would say, “Please vote ‘No’ on 2,” if he thought you might agree with him.