Oh right, judge retention. We have that in Florida, too - a judge gets put to a vote after 1 year, then after every 6 thereafter. Turns out the Florida SC CJ is actually the guy who invented the term “partial birth abortion” - that tells me all I need to know. Buh-bye, Canady. For the rest of them, all the Scott appointees need to be kept on their toes or sent back to the private sector. Crist and Jeb! appointees can be assumed to be responsible citizens and can be kept.
Yes! That was me yesterday. No line at all. I got a nice long walk on a beautiful fall day, got my flu shot, and voted at my local county government center. Just as happy to have this out of the way, as my November workload is looking crazier than all the candidates put together. I was able to research the ballot on my walk, via my portable telephonic computing device. Sometimes I love this century! When I voted absentee in 2008 I had a longer line there than I’d have had at the polls. Such is life.
Voted Clinton/Kaine, to re-elect my great Dem. Congressman, against making Va’s Right-To-Work law extra double-secret harder to change, voted for the option to exempt survivors of police from local taxes (although why this has to be a state constitutional amendment instead of just a law escapes me), voted for the meals tax (yes, I’m the one), and for the bond issues. Pretty short ballot.
Here in WA, we do all our voting by mail. My ballot came in the mail on Friday. I filled it in on Saturday, and on Sunday I put it in the drop-box by the post office.
Voted today. First time I’ve voted early. There was no line, the poll workers were friendly and helpful, and maybe this will help me ignore the election until it’s over. (Also, it means I am free to do electioneering work on election day, like drive people to the polls. So, um, I guess I’m not really done with this year’s election.)
Voted last Friday with my wife. And this weekend I helped my dad get mail-in ballots (they usually vote in person, but my mom broke her ankle, and I told them not to take chances).
Here in the ‘Way Far Upper Left Coast’ we’re modern enough to vote by mail and we were spared the ‘nut case’ referendums of years past. Interesting to note the almost total absence of yard signs (except for some county positions) this time. Conservative supporters have probably figured out that in our tiny community they would be facing the “He always seemed harmless enough - could it be the medications?” question in the dairy aisle of the market. :rolleyes:
Ballot’s in the mail: To paraphrase Grover Norquist, “I want a GOP small enough to drown in a bathtub”.
Another Washington state voter here. I forget what day it was last week, but I received my ballot in the mail, filled it out that evening while finalizing my research on the down ballot candidates and issues, and dropped it in a drop box the next day.
It is convenient here, and that is the important thing. But I do miss the camaraderie of standing in line to vote among fellow citizens that I experienced in California and South Africa.
I was very mildly amused by having to be careful about dropping the red ballot envelope and the red Netflix DVD return envelope in the right boxes. If Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones are elected you’ll have me to blame!
California has had a de facto moratorium for several years, because part of the protocol for administering the death penalty requires that a licensed physician (IIRC, licensed in the state of California) be present. The California state branch of the AMA has decided not to do this. No doctor will attend executions. Therefore, without revising the law, no executions can happen. And no one has been in a hurry to revise the law.
I suspect that Charles Manson is the reason that California reinstated the death penalty. He and several of his minions were given the DP at trial, but before they could actually be executed, the federal moratorium came down, and he, as well as the others all had their sentences commuted. A lot of people were outraged the the will of Californians to do away with Manson had been overridden by the Federal government, and I think the state was still smarting over that when it had a chance to bring back the DP.
I early voted on Friday. There was quite a long line at 3pm on a workday.
POTUS/VPOTUS: Clinton/Kaine
U.S. Representative: Doomed democrat
Mayor: Doomed democrat
State Rep: Trisha Farmer, a possibly not-doomed Democrat.
There is no suspense in the first three races - Trump will win the state by double digits, Diane Black will be re-elected to Congress, and our mayor will keep his job. But the demographics in our state district have been changing rapidly, and I think there is a reasonable chance of the Democratic challenger taking our seat in the state house of representatives. I’ve been doing some canvassing and handing out lit for her for weeks now. Fingers crossed.
Turnout was brisk and sizable; it was pretty impressive for a Tuesday mid-afternoon.
The line moved quickly; all the volunteers and election officials at my early voting place were cordial and efficient. I thanked several for their time and efforts and they thanked me for voting; I heard this exchange several more times before I left the area. People seemed to be a good mood, if only because they can finally put this behind them (almost).
The line moved at a good pace; I shuffled to the front in less than 10 minutes despite it being well over a hundred people long when I joined. The whole process took me about 30 minutes from door to door.
I just mailed the ballot - using TWO stamps - it weighed 1.4 oz. by my scales.
Yeah, straight D.
Yes, we need to fund transportation - the Gas Tax just isn’t bringing in the money it used to.
I once voted for a GOP candidate for Mayor - he was the only one talking about the city - everybody else was spouting Federal and/or Global positions.
A few months after the election it turned out he liked children a bit too much.
I am one of those “quirky” voters - liberal on almost everything - except I favor Capital Punishment.
If we trust the judicial system*, we should honor their findings and actually DO WHAT the COURT SAID!
I am strongly opposed to ‘mandatory sentencing’ and REALLY opposed to “3 Strikes”.
There may be some who do not belong on Death Row (another term I hate); after 5 years of “appeals”, I’m guessing those who are still there really do need to die.
I vote in SC Congressional district 3 which makes for few choices.
Only one ballot measure to vote on: Do you favor a change in County Council terms from two (2) year non-staggered terms to four (4) years staggered terms?
I voted absentee since I live overseas. For the first time I returned my completed ballot via email. It was a bit of a pain since the ballot arrived as a PDF. I converted to a bmp so I could mark the ballot in Paint. Then converted back to PDF to send the ballot back…
