Just got back from early voting. When we got to our city building, there were 10 people ahead of us, went pretty quickly. By the time we left (lunch hour), the line was out the door. Although my daughter voted in 2012, she was not on the register, but that was quickly resolve
Like Chimera, I voted against an independent council to handle pay raises.
Gladly voted for our Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison.
Tennessee set record Early voting levels so far this year.
Did early voting in Chicago yesterday. There was one person ahead of me in line, easy peasy. Held my nose and voted for Trump. Not that I’m a big fan, but I don’t think our country can take four more years of the path Obama has put us on. Voted NO on all judge retentions, as I always do.
Dropped off my ballot at the 24 hour drive through drop box in Jefferson County Colorado. Couldn’t have been easier.
Clinton
Bennet
Perlmutter
I dislike voting in general, but I felt this year was an important one to make a statement.
Illinois voter- wrote in Darrell Castle (Constitution Party) for president, straight Democratic for other offices.
Voted yesterday on my way into work. Straight Democratic ticket, not that there’s any real Republican opposition in my downtown Minneapolis district. The Republican challenger for state senate’s pitch is basically “Downtown’s been represented by Democrats for a long time. That’s not fair!”
Voted for the incumbent state Supreme Court justice, but she should beat her drunk-driving, arrest-resisting (and Republican-endorsed!) challenger without trouble. I ignored the dozens of other incumbent judges running unopposed, and didn’t take time to research or vote for the School Board, since I won’t be having kids anytime soon.
Unlike MissTake and Chimera, I voted FOR the independent legislative wage-setting commission. Though the Minnesota constitution says that the legislature is part-time, and maybe it actually was in the 1800s, it’s undoubtedly a full-time gig now. But as long as voting yourself a raise is political suicide, the salary will stay at $30k or whatever it is, and it’ll get harder and harder to get candidates that aren’t independently wealthy and/or retired, and that’s not sustainable.
Waste of 30 perfectly good minutes.
Voting is never a waste.
Maybe the waste was that they didn’t get to vote?
Or perhaps lives in an essentially uncontested state at the presidential level, and wishes we just had a nationwide popular vote, like in most countries.
A little of both, a bunch of incumbents, unopposed races combined with the annoying habit of my wife to vote the exact opposite of me, essentially cancelling us both out. I think she does it out of spite, 'cause it sure as hell is not in (the family’s) best interest.
A waste. I could have spent that time drinking beer. And maybe *I did! *
That’s a weird kind of statement.
Why can’t Election Day be held on a Saturday? I’m sure it’s been asked a thousand times, apologies.
I got one of those “voting report cards” in the mail a week or so ago. You know, the “you voted in X and Y, but not in Z election” things. Funny thing was, it correctly showed that I had voted in 2008 in New Mexico but not in 2010, 2012, or 2014. Well, yes, because I voted in New York in those elections. What a wonderful example of the limits of big data and of garbage in, garbage out.
I know I was taught this in elementary school but off the top of my head cannot remember. But I’m sure it has something to do with farmers and how back in the day it took some time to get to a polling place and they can’t miss church (might not get back in time on Sunday). Something like this.
B/c the most powerful people want it this way.
Because then we’d have too many working people voting, and they’d probably still be pissed off about all the taxes taken out of their paycheck the day before.
Lots of people work Saturdays. In our increasingly sales- and service-oriented economy, a Saturday election day probably screws with far more people’s plans (considering both sides of the counter) than a Tuesday.
Harvests, churches, and unpaved roads.
The Georgia Secretary of State said on our local NPR station Wednesday that, as of that day, 1.9 million people had early-voted. Said Georgia was on pace to beat our record of 2.2 million in 2008.
That’s why it has been on this particular Tuesday since 1845, but not why it has stayed on this particular Tuesday ever since. It’s placement has worked to the advantage of people who wanted it kept that way.