I voted today
 

I voted today, and you'll never guess who I voted for. :cool:

I did get two votes for congress. The tea party incumbent did not have a Democrat running against him, so my wife and I both wrote in my name (or at least she said she did :)). Sorry, BH, I couldn't bring myself to cast the ballot for the Libertarian, who was the only other name on the ballot for congress.

I know that our votes will make no electoral difference in this red state, but maybe we did our part in avoiding the situation where Obama would win the electoral college but lose the popular vote.

Regards,

D-Ray

I voted yesterday. It was easy. I just went to this liberal website and cast my vote for everyone and everything they told me to.

John

Hi Don, Patty early voted last week. She's a volunteer pollworker this time out, (kudos to my precious better half!) I'm waiting for election day, myself. I want to see if any of those sh*t fer brains self appointed pollwatchers show up in my precinct. Orange County, California has a long history of dirty politics with these scum coming out in Latino areas to coerce the vote. The Orange Co. Republicant party has been sued & lost over this behaviour. I'll have the FEC and the Police on speed dial if I see anything out of the ordinary.

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Lucky guy!!!;)

She is uber hot for 60+ years! I am indeed a lucky man!:D

I will vote on election day

I feel it in the air...the Mittster is going down. I think it will be like when people walked into a booth in 1980 and just could not vote for Carter. I do not think people in their hearts want Mitt Romney that much.

We can vote early here, just never looked into it. Like the feel of going down on election day and enjoying the show and all.

As to Romney going down in flames, I just have a gut felling it going to be a nasty one. Like the fix is in sorta thing. He will use the polling to justify the results.


Barney

I'm registered to vote by mail. I Get an envelope in the mail containing my ballot (optical scan IBM cards for optical scanners). I can either fill them out and mail them back any time after I get them or submit them at a polling station.

I was thinking about taking them to the polls to see whether anyone messed with me or anyone else but this is Lynne Woolsey's and Dan Ellsberg's home town..........

John

Not the whole if Romney wins it's be fraud thing again!

Congrats Don :) I'll wait till voting day like always, not that that matters. Old habits die hardI guess.

It feels close.

Pete

Just returned from voting with the wife. Number 84 and 5 when normally in the 20's. Seem like the turnout was higher to me. Higher then in 2008 and the parking lot was so full people were waiting.

Plus they had a few voters that their polling place was changed . Add to that nobody could help them out either.




Barney

Here's hoping for a high turnout. Would be nice to see people getting interested in democracy again.

You have a law now that prohibits poll workers from telling a voter where their polling station is?

John

I think it was more the poll workers just not knowing. But at the polling place there was no way to find out it seemed.

I doubled checked online last month to make sure because of the changes.

My son called me when he was there. At 10:30 he was number 300. They usually have around 500 in a Presidential election in the past.






Barney

Wow! Which way does that precinct usually vote?

John

In and out in less than 10 minutes. No lines, no worries.

Nice to be off today as I'm sure it's gonna get ugly around 3pm

Reporting on actual results starts in six hours.

Regards,

D-Ray

I voted at the local middle school in the semi-rural (for the DC area, anyway) town I live in at about 10:30 this morning. Normally, there is no wait whatsoever. This morning there was about a half-hour wait. I think part has to do with the number of ballot measures on the Maryland and Montgomery County ballot from police union issues to gerrymandering to alcohol by the drink in my dry town (the only such town in MD) to gay marriage to booting politicians for legal transgressions to gambling.

No low turnout here, though MD is far from a swing state. Obama will win by 25%.

In keeping with my pledge to not vote for either Obama or Romney so I could ultimately support the winner, I voted for Gary Johnson.:cool:

Holy Cow finn that's excellent! I considered it, to get him to 5%, but my state's too close.

It would sure make next election more interesting.

Pete

I'm just so happen to live in a Tea Party , WASP rural farm area precinct. The break down in 2008 was about 70/30 favoring the Right. From the signs displayed this year it might be even higher to the Right.




Barney

Done! Delivered lunch to my SO at the same time. She's a poll volunteer from 6AM to 9PM today. No shenanigans to report in lotus land.

So, a high turnout there is probably an indication of the Tea Party and the Christian Right turning out in force.

John

That would be the eggs & toilet paper & brown paper bag protection mechanism at work, Barney. :D I hope your fellow Kentucks give it to the incumbent this time out!:)

No issue. There's no difference in Romney winning in Kentucky with 75% or 50.1%. He's got the bubba vote sewed up.

Ultimately, appealing to the bubbas will be the GOP's demise. The Hispanic vote is where it's at for the future.

True, but if this energizing of the bubbas is widespread and not offset by a similar response from the liberal base.........

John

Yep. But, I think a lot of blacks will react strongly to GOP efforts to disenfranchise them with their bogus voter fraud scam.

Done. I went during dinner time and there were only a handful of voters there, but the poll workers said it was crazy today.

We won everything we voted for here except the re-districting which we voted against. I disapprove of political parties drawing electoral boundries even if it happens to be my own party.

+1. I think it was because of the squirrelly wording of the ballot question (i.e., the question led the reader to believe that the Dems who redrew the boundaries were simply following a prescribed Constitutional procedure for redistricting).

I was looking at some of the Florida districts last night. There was one that looked like a cell phone coverage map. It seemed like it was 80 miles long and a couple of miles wide.

Regards,

D-Ray