I totally brainfried and lost track of the day, and didn’t get out to vote. :smack:
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck 
Well, if your side looses by one vote, your gonna feel like a dick.
Don’t feel too bad. I had my mail in ballot sitting on the table because I kept forgetting to get stamps. Then I put it in my purse to drop it off but then all hell broke loose at work and I didn’t leave in time to go drop it off. I had a head/smack moment at about 6:30pm.
Not only am I that lazy and apparently absentminded, it’s been a week since our elections and i STILL haven’t removed it from my purse.
You folks keep this up and Bush is gonna be reelected and he wasn’t even running 
Useless slacker! Underminer of democracy! Our brave servicemen and women. . .ah, fuck it.
I only remembered because the place I work is also my polling place. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have bothered; no important elections around here this time.
I’m sure Mr. aru will be able to step up and fill the demand…
Well, luckily the people I would have voted for did end up winning … but I hate not voting because if they didn’t I couldn’t bitch about it. [I feel you have no right to bitch about something if you didn’t vote on it.] This is literally the first time I missed voting in <counts up> 31 years. sigh
I think I will run down to town hall today and register for mail in on the grounds of my gimpitude - not that I had a flare that prevented me from getting out to vote, but it might in the future.
If your side lost by more than one vote, you would also be lucking in the exact same way. And anyway, you have it backwards. The voters are the ones that can’t bitch- they sowed it, they reap it. It’s the nonvoters who get to bitch about it.
Out this way, people could call in for a mail ballot just because they wanted one, they didn’t need a reason. This seemed to work out so well that the county changed the rules so that any registered voter could fill out a form for permanent mail in status. This is wildly propular and our voting rates have gone way up.
I disagree. In my opinion, the non-voters have pretty much said “I don’t care, you pick.” It like if some of us were going out and we all discussed where to go. Me: how about the Pines, we haven’t been there for a while. Susan: We haven’t been to the old whorehouse for a while either. Roger: I don’t care, you guys pick. Arnold: It will be dark coming back, so I vote for the Pines.
Now, Susan can complain about the Pines if she wants to. She won’t because next time, we will probably agree on the whorehouse. Had Arnold come out for the whorehouse, I could have complained about that. Roger is NOT allowed to sit at the Pines and complain because he would have rather gone to Billy Jack’s. If he tries, he will get a big dose of STFU from the rest of us.
The problem with your analogy is that, in an election, there generally is no Billy Jacks.
You have to choose between the Pines and the whorehouse, and if you don’t like either one there’s very little you can do about it. In my opinion, someone who would prefer Billy Jacks, but doesn’t have that option at the polls, has every right to complain about the Pines and the whorehouse even if he doesn’t vote.
I went to vote yesterday, and discovered our polling place closed. Since the only election is a special session called to replace our city councilman, we don’t vote until Dec 6th…
You needed a stamp to mail in your ballot? Where I live, the county provides a postage-free mailer.
Ours wont need a stamp=) And I am all set to get mailed ballots from now on =)
Warning first: I’m pretty doped up with legal pain pills. I might not be a clear as I’d like and it seems I’ve lost my ability to spell. Please don’t think that I’m screaming and spitting on my monitor because I’ve lost my ability to post.
Now, see, if Roger had put Bill Jacks on the table, that would have been discussed as well. He didn’t.
There are lots of good 3rd party candidates who don’t get discussed for many reason and I feel that a lot of it is apathy. The people who like them and could get the word out, don’t.
Also, people don’t vote in the important elections. They ignore the grass roots politics, not caring who the elected officials are for their local government and only vote in the big elections. By then, they really only have 2 chioces.
I used to activally compaign for people who ran for Justice of the Peace and Head Dogcatcher, etc. (I can’t now because of my job…wait, maybe I can, I’m not under the Recorder now…I’ll have to check on that) Those are the sort of people who might end up on the national radar in 10 years.
I did the same thing. This is the first time in more than a decade that I did not vote. The last time I had just moved and was not willing to drive back to my old town to vote. This time, by the time I remembered it, it was too late.
My county’s ballots used to require extra postage. They still might, but they’re a lot smaller. I just hand-deliver them now, because I actually had my ballot in 2007 returned for insufficient postage. And it didn’t come back until several days after the election.
i was going to start a thread asking how many people in recorded history over-slept on (or forgot) their wedding day.