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My dad was politically active when I was a kid, and my parents always voted in EVERY election. They set a great example for us kids. I think I've only missed 3 or 4 elections since I turned 18.
I got theater tickets for tonight so that I won't spend the evening glued to the internet, watching returns trickle in and biting my nails.
-wassamatta_u
I miss voting machines. Filling out a Scantron form with a blue marker just feels WRONG for voting day. Where's my curtain? Where's the awesome little levers? :(
Wild Rose
Larva lady-ZZ
-- Ryan
H-A-F
Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sign in grateful chorus
"Well done, Sister Suffragette!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvk1NZDFvZU
I looooove the mail in ballot system here in Oregon. Before that, they would declare a winner in presidential campaigns BEFORE our polls had closed.
KuKu
Annalisa
Blue Butterfly
Bandaid
You know.... you left your personal stuff behind for this public service announcement.... You guys are great!
Bandaid
My elderly relative, who I live with, decided that he wanted to vote, too, though I'm positive he doesn't know the candidates nor issues (he has fairly extreme dementia). I got him to vote for my choice for governor, then told him he was done. I didn't want him randomly voting in the wrong!
No, I didn't vote a party line. And I supported only one incumbent.
MichKathy: NONE OF THE ABOVE". I LIKE that, and wish we had that option in Conn.
Connfederate
Yak~King blues
LunaSea
Heather
-D
I've tried twice now to vote absentee in SC elections and both times my application was botched. In 2004 I was told that military and absentee ballots were destroyed in a car accident; in 2008 inept data enterers mailed it to the wrong address twice and tried to blame me ("you Said 82 South Carolina street, Annapolis." No. I said 82 South Caroline street, Baltimore--I even said "Caroline, with an E at the end" you're just an idiot.") so I didn't receive my ballot until December. While I don't necessarily think the polls are rigged in SC, and while I'm sure its not state policy to sabotage or prevent absentee votes, I've been screwed over plenty.
While I did vote in 02 and 06--I even voted in the primaries!--I've not had a good track record in SC. This year at least it was my own damn fault-- I was writing my thesis all summer and plumb forgot to try and register absentee. By the time I realized I needed to handle that (September) it was too late. I fail at democracy.
Doctor