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Old 11-06-2006, 07:26 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hey! November 7th again!

Just a little reminder that it's almost November the 7th, time to vote!

Not initiating a Politics style flame war, just getting the word out. Go vote! Or, don't if that's your choice.

In other news I had a hot Republican from Utah show up at my door about ten minutes ago reminding me to vote. I didn't know there were hot Republicans, but apparently I was mistaken

I included the poll just to see how many people care about elections other than "the big one."
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Old 11-06-2006, 07:42 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I just don't understand how for 200+ years we were able to have paper ballots and a system of being able to check and verify. Yes, it may not have been perfect but it worked. And how did we function with all of us voting the same uniform day?????

Now, we have a system that we keep hearing has problems, no true paper trail, people voting in absentia, without anyone truly checking ID or making sure the vote is legitimate.

If all this is a move in the right direction.... I'd be happy and content in whatever direction we had for 200+ years that worked pretty damned good.
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Old 11-06-2006, 07:49 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Now, why did you have to go and redirect the thread with the first post? All Sage wanted to do was to remind people to vote tomorrow, and to get an idea of how many here plan to do so.

Oh well...since you went there...Nebraska still uses paper ballots, pan. Feel free to pack up your conestoga wagon and mosey on out here. Hell, we're even gettin us a shiny new windmill.

Oh, and by the way...yes, I will be voting in tomorrow's election.
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Old 11-06-2006, 08:13 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Now, why did you have to go and redirect the thread with the first post? All Sage wanted to do was to remind people to vote tomorrow, and to get an idea of how many here plan to do so.

Oh well...since you went there...Nebraska still uses paper ballots, pan. Feel free to pack up your conestoga wagon and mosey on out here. Hell, we're even gettin us a shiny new windmill.

Oh, and by the way...yes, I will be voting in tomorrow's election.
Yes, I will be voting, didn't mean to change direction, just had to rant.

How ever are you guys going to have an election with those obsolete paper ballots?

Hmmmm Nebraska getting a shiny new windmill? May have to go see it.
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Old 11-07-2006, 07:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
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So that is why Alternate Side Parking is suspended? Oh well, I don't plan on voting but at least I'm getting something out of it. Friday is suspended, too. I do feel kind of guitly because they actually have the voting machines in the lobby of my building, though I really just don't care enough to vote.
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Old 11-07-2006, 07:33 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I was at the polls when they opened this morning, though if we are going back in how they used to vote for 200+ years I wouldnt have since Im female and all and couldnt vote back when the "good" rules according to Pan went into effect. hehehehehe
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Old 11-07-2006, 07:50 AM   #7 (permalink)
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i voted a few weeks ago, absentee, then promptly left the state.. I shudda voted democrat -- that'd show 'em
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Old 11-07-2006, 08:56 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I voted yesterday as part of the early voter...thingie?

Last go round I voted on Election Day in the basement of the courthouse where 30+ booths for those "oh, so obsolete" paper ballots were used. I was in and out in about 20 minutes.

This year, I got to use the fancy touchscreen voter machines. They're pretty expensive and the volunteers were obviously uncomfortable around the eight machines they had set up. The polling place where I voted was expecting around 1000 people that day and I spent a little over an hour when all was said and done. Election day they said they were expecting six--seven times as many people...? Voter turnout in my little neck of the woods hovered around 70% in 2000; I can't imagine that number isn't going to suffer this go round.
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Old 11-07-2006, 10:05 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Because of our mail-in elections, I wasn't able to get my address changed in time, and so I won't be voting this year. That is perhaps the most inconvenient thing about the mail-in ballots; if you move, it's a pain in the ass to go get it changed because you have to show ID at the elections office (at least in my county).

I will, however, be making sure that everyone else around me votes.
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Old 11-07-2006, 10:50 AM   #10 (permalink)
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I was wondering why my son's birthday was an auspicious enough day to have its own thread!

But I gather everybody votes on the same day every year in the US? It's important to get out there and do it. Our municipal elections are next week, and it looks like voter turn out is only going to be 30%. This is pathetic.

VOTE!!!
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Old 11-07-2006, 11:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I just don't understand how for 200+ years we were able to have paper ballots and a system of being able to check and verify. Yes, it may not have been perfect but it worked. And how did we function with all of us voting the same uniform day?????.
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These paper ballot things arent working very well; hanging chads, slightly punched ballotts, ect... We need to reinvest in our voting machines and go electronic. This is the 21st century afterall!!!

And yes, I voted already. Waited a whole 5 minutes. If I had to wait any longer, I wouldve gone home and declared myself "disenfranchised"
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Old 11-07-2006, 11:28 AM   #12 (permalink)
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No, I don't plan on voting this November 7th.

I doubt the American government would appreciate it if a Canadian voted.

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Old 11-09-2006, 07:28 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I voted by mail this year... so much more handy! I was able to vote on what I knew, then go and research what I didn't understand before I cast one way or the other.

On a side note, I asked a question of two candidates for the senate... the one that took the time to respond was the one who was way behind and desperate for votes. Too bad.
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Old 11-09-2006, 08:03 PM   #14 (permalink)
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No, I didn't wote this year. I leave the voting to the voters
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Old 11-10-2006, 05:38 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I followed the election season very closely, but I did not vote. Apparently you have to be an American to vote here

By my computations, I will be able to vote in the 2012 elections. I will be disenfranchised no more! Unless in the meantime Lebanon adopts absentee voting, but that's unlikely...
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Old 11-11-2006, 12:16 AM   #16 (permalink)
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I don't vote because I am a big idiot.
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Old 11-11-2006, 02:58 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Although I seriously doubt the power of my vote to bring about any significant change, I did vote. I figured that at the very least, voting gives me the right to complain until the next election.
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