# Share your dirty little Election Day secrets **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076 "2012-11-06T14:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/61 "2012-11-07T20:12:27Z")
I wrote in Gandalf because I wasn’t going to vote for the guy running uncontested. I hope the person who has to read the write in’s got a chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/62 "2012-11-07T20:15:26Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > Nope, though you are a bit like my Grandma. Sadly they both passed away 37 years ago. Crap… no one told me I was dead? Y’all just let me keep up setting wake up alarms and filling out tax forms and paying bills and stuff?! Not nice. Not nice at all. I need a nap. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/63 "2012-11-07T20:22:53Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > In past elections and even in this one, I cast votes for referenda on issues I didn’t fully understand. In some cases had never heard of before, and had no idea what the impact of the measure passing or failing would be. You and about 99% of US voters. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/64 "2012-11-07T20:45:15Z")
I forgot about this one – I think I committed voter fraud in the 2002 election when I was living in Maryland (for two years) but still registered in Pennsylvania. I really wanted to (yikes, maybe this is another confession) vote for Ed Rendell in the PA Governor’s race, so I took the afternoon off and drove to PA to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/65 "2012-11-07T20:54:29Z")
I voted for George Bush in 2001. Mostly, I voted against Gore because I didn’t like Clinton and I considered him the legacy. I’m a Democrat-leaning independent-type who advocates a strong national defense as well as a woman’s right to her own body. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/66 "2012-11-07T21:21:07Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > Also I’m registered to vote at an address where I haven’t really lived since 2006 and have no intent to ever return there on a permanent basis. I feel vaguely guilty about this, but it’s the closest I have to a permanent address and I literally can’t register where I actually live, as I don’t currently live in the US. No reason to feel guilty; that’s exactly what you’re [supposed to do](http://www.fvap.gov/faq.html#ocq2): > [@](#): > > \*\*If I do not maintain a legal residence in the U.S., what is my “legal State of residence”? > \*\* > Your “legal State of residence” for voting purposes is the State or territory where you last resided immediately prior to your departure from the United States. This applies to overseas citizens even though you may not have property or other ties in your last State of residence and your intent to return to that State may be uncertain. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/67 "2012-11-08T04:02:53Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > I voted for at third party POTUS candidate in 2000. I am not sure if it was Nader or Green party Nader was the Green Party candidate that year, and I also voted for him. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076/68 "2012-11-08T16:50:06Z")
I voted for Reagan in 1980. Was mad as hell at Jimmy Carter and was in favor of balancing the budget (ha! ha!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-dirty-little-election-day-secrets/640076.md?page=3)