Did you vote today? (moved from Roundtable)

I did. It was my first time voting in my current town. It was weird. The ballot had to be handwritten, and there were tons and tons of old people there. They were standing around their walkers, some with cigars, chatting it up. At first, I wasn't sure I was at the right place. None of them seemed to actually be voting...

Very, very strange.

happywritermom said:

No vote cast = no right to whine.
I love to whine, so I voted.

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Exactly.

I'm voting after school, so during my free hour I'm going to do some last-minute research on the more obscure candidates...It's no different from how I go about my homework assignments.

For at last on position (Lieutenant Governor) I'm voting against rather than for someone, which always makes the decision process easier, although the last time I voted against someone the wack job won anyway. Please, fellow voters, be smarter this time...

happywritermom said:

No vote cast = no right to whine.
I love to whine, so I voted.

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I voted early on Saturday in (South) Durham NC. It was quite a scene
and very enjoyable.

Sound like here, Lori. I voted early. Might go again.

What? I AM in Illinois.

I will after work. It will be nice and quiet just how I like it.

But of course. The polling place was already crowded at 7 a.m. -- I live in a very political neighborhood. Seemed to be lots of enthusiasm. In fact, the woman in front of me marked off multiple candidates for each position, so the ballot counter kept spitting hers out with the baleful error message "OVERVOTED!"

I voted for the Cool Moose candidate for Lt. Governor. Only in Rhode Island.

The big referendum in RI is whether to change the state name from "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" to plain old "Rhode Island." I don't think we're going to give up the distinction of having the longest state name, however.

Unfortunately it was too late to add the Frank Caprio referendum to the ballot, moving that the state motto be changed from "Hope" to "Shove it."

Since I had to be at work today before the polls opened, I'll be voting this evening straight after my doctor's appointment. "Governor" is not an entry level position and I've got to do my part to keep the amateur-with-enormous-bank-account from buying her way into the office.

In at 0600, out at 0608, still caught the normal train into NYC. Die, incumbents, die!

Headed that way after work, taking the kids with me.

I voted, and I kinda like to see all the people who work the polls sitting together at that long table, shuffling papers and drinking Pepsi.

I bet that's just what it was like when they signed the constitution.


*warm fuzzies*

I voted weeks ago here in Iowa. I love early voting. You just go down to the courthouse and fill out a ballot.

I voted via mail a couple of weeks ago. I just wish we had a better choice for governor in California.

I did, despite the rampant voter intimidation. All those sweet, smiling, silver-haired old ladies...they scare me...

i can whine lol. i didnt vote because our hopefuls are dirty. i did some research and none were good. gotta love living in ohio!

Yup. Had to cancel the vote of my business partner.

I can whine (and you better believe I probably will be, several wing-nuts running in my districts). I voted by mail a couple of weeks ago.

MM

I sure did. The candidate for governor here in GA is perfectly frightful.

I'm Canadian. We voted municipally in the last week or two. I'm not sure when, because I didn't vote. I did whine, though...about the miles and miles of VISUAL POLLUTION in the form of candidate signage. ACK! Hate it!

I have never voted once in my 44 years. Wait! Yes...I voted for the Quebec referendum...to KEEP Quebec as part of Canada. J'aime le Québec. I'm selfish.

I know nothing of politics, so I do not feel guilty NOT voting. I feel that it is my duty to NOT vote. I mean, I know NOTHING. And I care not of any of it. My eyes glass over when politics come up in conversation. I actually tell people not to bother, because I don't know anything. I don't know names, issues, nothing. I would never vote if I wasn't fully informed...being ZERO INFORMED, it is my duty to pass on the vote. It would actually be a crime if I voted. I'd be voting for how pretty the name sounds. Period.

I voted - in the same building my family's voted in for the last 50-odd years. And it still has that musty "used-once-a-week-at-most" smell LOL And yeah - the little old ladies and smiling old gentlemen all knew who I was!

I voted. It was crowded. I'm with the DIE INCUMBENTS DIE group. I was tempted to write in a few like Foghorn Leghorn or Wiley Coyote but I restrained myself.
I did want to at pretty much everything on the ballot.

1- not sure what his has to do with writing

2 - I would if I could, but your government as this weird thing where I can't. Don't know why, must be discrimination or summat