Ya Vote Yet?

[HelloKitty]

I have to work 10 hrs on Nov. 4th so I am doing an absentee ballot this year. I do feel a little uneasy about mailing it in…what if it gets lost in the mail, etc.? But I will at least have a clear conscience!!

I only wish they included a “I voted” sticker in with the ballot so I could wear it to work that day!!!

[TWDuke]

I have my absentee ballot in front of me. Of course I know what to mark for president/VP. For, the state offices, I’ve carefully evaluated each candidates record and public statements on all the important… oh, who am I kidding, I’m voting down the party line. I’ve figured out my position on most of the propositions. For superior court judge, I’m voting for the one who hasn’t violated campaign financing law 26 times.

But I’m not sure what to do about the community college board, school board, or water district. How do I know I’m not voting for a school board member who wants Young Earth Creationism taught in science classes?

I guess I’ll just vote for the incumbent water district division manager. Everytime I turn on the tap, water comes out, so he must be doing a good job.

[DMark]

@Equipoise

It amazes me that so many people trust early voting. It seems to me one of the easiest of many many ways votes can be thrown away, er, excuse me, “misplaced” prior to the election. How do you know your vote will count? I see it as a prime way to siphon off votes that are cast on election day.

I don’t trust early voting (or really, voting at all), but then I’m a bitter, cynical soul. On the other hand, even if I thought it was all on the up and up, and every vote counted and all that, I’d still want to vote on election day just because I like the process of voting.

Well, at least here in Nevada, I think it is easier to trust. For instance, at the end of every voting day, they put up the tallies on line (link for Clark County) and after you have voted, they print out a paper version of the electronic voting you did (just in case they need a re-count). Plus, both Republicans and Democrats get to see how many registered voters voted. So for instance, if 1000 Dems voted and 1000 Pubbies voted on the same day at the same location, they can assume it will be approximately 50/50 and notice if something looks odd. Plus they have a pretty good sized staff working there, with an observer taking notes and watching everything very closely. Sure, there could still be fraud, but no worse than on Election Day itself…at least in my humble opinion.

[sideshowkar]

@Equipoise

It amazes me that so many people trust early voting. It seems to me one of the easiest of many many ways votes can be thrown away, er, excuse me, “misplaced” prior to the election. How do you know your vote will count? I see it as a prime way to siphon off votes that are cast on election day.

I don’t trust early voting (or really, voting at all), but then I’m a bitter, cynical soul. On the other hand, even if I thought it was all on the up and up, and every vote counted and all that, I’d still want to vote on election day just because I like the process of voting.

In California (at least in my county (Ventura)), you can check online to see if your ballot arrived at its intended destination. I sent mine in on the 9th and it was recorded on the 10th.

[Spoke]

Voted early, and will be performing voter protection services on election day.

[Ca3799]

@TWDuke

For superior court judge, I’m voting for the one who hasn’t violated campaign financing law 26 times.

But I’m not sure what to do about the community college board, school board, or water district. How do I know I’m not voting for a school board member who wants Young Earth Creationism taught in science classes?

Check that new thing- the interwebs. I’ve heard you can find lots of information there!

@TWDuke

For superior court judge, I’m voting for the one who hasn’t violated campaign financing law 26 times.
I guess I’ll just vote for the incumbent water district division manager. Everytime I turn on the tap, water comes out, so he must be doing a good job.

That’s just funny!

[garygnu]

[thread=487292]I voted[/thread] back on the 10th.

[WhyNot]

@TWDuke

But I’m not sure what to do about the community college board, school board, or water district. How do I know I’m not voting for a school board member who wants Young Earth Creationism taught in science classes?

I just started a thread asking for help with this in my area. Feel free to add on a specific request for your local info.

[Tuckerfan]

Had to go back by the courthouse to get new tags for my car, and the place was slammed with people. I had to park next door and walk over, which is something I’ve never had to do before.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

I’ll be an hour away from home on the 4th, getting out the vote in Toledo, so I voted absentee a week and a half ago.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

My supervisor used the N word today, in describing Obama.

And stated unambiguously that he was afraid of him.

And cited the fake “Obama was born outside the US/wouldn’t give a judge his Birth Certificate” email.

Damn.:eek::rolleyes::smack:

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

My supervisor used the N word today, in describing Obama.

And stated unambiguously that he was afraid of him.

And cited the fake “Obama was born outside the US/wouldn’t give a judge his Birth Certificate” email.

Damn.:eek::rolleyes::smack:

I’ve actually got a-- I hate to use the word “friend” here, but alas I will-- friend who actually used the N word in describing Obama this past weekend too.

He’s fairly politically ignorant, and on group emails for the past seven months, he’s been threatening to vote for whomever I *wasn’t *voting for, simply ‘cuz I’m always "talkin’ politics and shit."

I overheard another friend ask him this weekend who he was voting for.

“The nigger,” he said. With a sigh and a headshake, I walked away. I wasn’t about to get into an arguement with him and lose a Michigan white racist vote for Obama.

[Tuckerfan]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

My supervisor used the N word today, in describing Obama.

And stated unambiguously that he was afraid of him.

And cited the fake “Obama was born outside the US/wouldn’t give a judge his Birth Certificate” email.

Damn.:eek::rolleyes::smack:

You still work for the state? IIRC, a state employee can get in a shitload of trouble for using such language.

Of course, that doesn’t mean he won’t be voting for Obama.

So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, “We’re votin’ for the n***er!”

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: “We’re voting for the n***er.”

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Tuckerfan

You still work for the state? IIRC, a state employee can get in a shitload of trouble for using such language.

Of course, that doesn’t mean he won’t be voting for Obama.

Dude, I am unpopular enough at work.

I do not need to mix it up over this.

[JSexton]

@toadspittle

Got my ballot sitting here on the counter. I just started paging through the 150 pages of ballot measures we have to vote on (no, not joking—we got 2 voter guides this year; 150 pages wasn’t enough for both candidates and ballot measures).

That’s because of the tools who pushed for voter approval for every single annexation. Glad we get to rubber stamp that.

Did you see the Democrat candidate for House that named every single one of his 7 kids after a Kennedy?

[Shirley_Ujest]

I’ve never waited more than 15 minutes in line to vote and I always see a bunch of people I haven’t seen in awhile.

I’ll vote on the Big Day and take the kids too. ( Maybe I’ll vote twice! :p)

[shantih]

I have officially voted now! I brought my absentee ballot to the post office today, and now I am poorer by 2 euros but richer by one more participation in the democratic process.

@TWDuke

I’ve figured out my position on most of the propositions. For superior court judge, I’m voting for the one who hasn’t violated campaign financing law 26 times.

I hesitate to criticize, but I fear that you’re making a grave error here. A judge should be an expert in the law, right? Who could be more intimately familiar with the law than someone who has taken the trouble to break it so very often?

[Knorf]

Mailed my absentee ballot on Saturdy (almost all WA ballots are mail in these days.)

Obama '08!

[Duckster]

Ballot came this weekend. I will vote tonight and post it in the mail tomorrow.

When another ballot arrives, I’ll do it again.

Vote early and vote often!

[Equipoise]

@DMark

Well, at least here in Nevada, I think it is easier to trust. For instance, at the end of every voting day, they put up the tallies on line (link for Clark County) and after you have voted, they print out a paper version of the electronic voting you did (just in case they need a re-count). Plus, both Republicans and Democrats get to see how many registered voters voted. So for instance, if 1000 Dems voted and 1000 Pubbies voted on the same day at the same location, they can assume it will be approximately 50/50 and notice if something looks odd. Plus they have a pretty good sized staff working there, with an observer taking notes and watching everything very closely. Sure, there could still be fraud, but no worse than on Election Day itself…at least in my humble opinion.

Thank you DMark (and sideshowkar). I’m feeling a bit better since I posted. For one thing, I just read this:

Obama Assembles U.S.‘s `Largest Law Firm’ for Voting

Barack Obama and John McCain have a litigation game plan to accompany their election strategy.

Both candidates have armies of volunteers to ring doorbells and get voters to the polls. They are also forming squadrons of lawyers who are filing challenges and preparing in case Election Day doesn’t settle the contest for the White House.

…

In Florida, Democratic lawyer Charles H. Lichtman has assembled almost 5,000 lawyers to monitor precincts, assist voters turned away at the polls and litigate any disputes that can’t be resolved out of court.

…

In Indiana, Republicans and Democratic-allied labor unions are battling over early voting in Lake County, an historically Democratic stronghold that includes Hammond, East Chicago and Gary near Chicago. John Curley, the county Republican chairman, argues that the election board lacked authority to open more than one site because state law requires a unanimous vote of the board.

May the best and most ethical lawyers, er, candidate, win!