I voted yesterday, but got no sticker.
As bad as the choices were, it still beat getting my wisdom tooth pulled a couple of weeks ago!
I voted early (not a po-lit-ee-kal thread)
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Originally Posted By: Steve S
Vote early vote often!!!.
A Chicago thing.
My dead grandfather voted blue for many many years, we found out later. Lots of dead people still had the strength to pull the curtain closed and vote!
Vote early vote often!!!.
A Chicago thing.
My dead grandfather voted blue for many many years, we found out later. Lots of dead people still had the strength to pull the curtain closed and vote!
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Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
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I wish they had a method for Internet voting.
I'd rather drive 1200 miles in a pontiac T1000 to vote, before I think of the ramifications of your suggestion.
I agree 100%. I don't trust this early voting as is let alone if they do it over the internet. God help us. Absentee/early voting should be for military personel and people out of the country only. If you live here and are in country the day of voting you should have to go to the polls and vote on the day of the election. Too easy for fraud and cheating.
Easier said than done sometimes.
My commute on a good day is about 2 hours (each way), and I haven't had many good days lately, and my travel/work day pretty much coincides with the time that the polls are open. So in order to vote this way, I'd have to go in late and they stay late, or go in early and leave early, all the while hoping that the wonderful METRA Rail system doesn't hit a butterfly and get me to my destination an hour or two late.
Then throw in the general confusion at the polls in my area at the start of voting. The last time I voted in person, on election day, I wound up filing a complaint with the election commission because the polls opened late, and the chief judge at the site gave me flack about expecting to vote as early as the law says I'm supposed to be able to vote. And I was there almost a half hour after the polls opened. Then I got to go to work, stay late at work and, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Ever since I've been able to early-vote, I've done so, even though it means driving 40 minutes to the other side of town to get to the city's election commission on the weekend. I hope my vote is actually being counted....but that's another thread. In the spring primary, I actually had to wait in a small line, which surprised even the poll workers.
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
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I wish they had a method for Internet voting.
I'd rather drive 1200 miles in a pontiac T1000 to vote, before I think of the ramifications of your suggestion.
I agree 100%. I don't trust this early voting as is let alone if they do it over the internet. God help us. Absentee/early voting should be for military personel and people out of the country only. If you live here and are in country the day of voting you should have to go to the polls and vote on the day of the election. Too easy for fraud and cheating.
Easier said than done sometimes.
My commute on a good day is about 2 hours (each way), and I haven't had many good days lately, and my travel/work day pretty much coincides with the time that the polls are open. So in order to vote this way, I'd have to go in late and they stay late, or go in early and leave early, all the while hoping that the wonderful METRA Rail system doesn't hit a butterfly and get me to my destination an hour or two late.
Then throw in the general confusion at the polls in my area at the start of voting. The last time I voted in person, on election day, I wound up filing a complaint with the election commission because the polls opened late, and the chief judge at the site gave me flack about expecting to vote as early as the law says I'm supposed to be able to vote. And I was there almost a half hour after the polls opened. Then I got to go to work, stay late at work and, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Ever since I've been able to early-vote, I've done so, even though it means driving 40 minutes to the other side of town to get to the city's election commission on the weekend. I hope my vote is actually being counted....but that's another thread. In the spring primary, I actually had to wait in a small line, which surprised even the poll workers.
Please don't use the derogatory term teabag. Uggh.
No time to early vote here, have to wait in line on election day.
simple_gifts: that was HILARIOUS! One of the funniest things I've read in a while.
No time to early vote here, have to wait in line on election day.
simple_gifts: that was HILARIOUS! One of the funniest things I've read in a while.
I am becoming more and more opposed to absentee voting for anyone who is not physically unable to vote in person. Military personnell casting absentee ballots from overseas is one thing. For everyone else:
VOTING IS IMPORTANT, SO GO DO IT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL DO IT FOR YOU!
Check it out, MASSIVE potential for fraud in Chi-town:
Glitch in Illinois' New Vote-By-Mail System
People are/were mailing their actual ballots to this "IDCC" orginization and not to the municipality!!
VOTING IS IMPORTANT, SO GO DO IT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL DO IT FOR YOU!
Check it out, MASSIVE potential for fraud in Chi-town:
Glitch in Illinois' New Vote-By-Mail System
People are/were mailing their actual ballots to this "IDCC" orginization and not to the municipality!!
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So you advocate people to take off work to vote instead of doing it by mail?
What about people with limited or no transportation?
How about people with print/reading issues?
How about coming off the high horse and join the rest of us peasants down here?
What about people with limited or no transportation?
How about people with print/reading issues?
How about coming off the high horse and join the rest of us peasants down here?
Sure, Cheaters gonna cheat. But we could make it a lot harder.
I would recommend polls be open from 12AM to 2AM following day, so that virtually anyone can find time in their schedule.
Seriously. How many people CAN'T manage to find time at least once every other week to
A> go to a bar
B> work out
C> play bingo
D> watch 2 hours of TV
E> go out to eat
...you get the idea.
Again, seriously, who really COULD NOT vote in person if that was the only option?
I would recommend polls be open from 12AM to 2AM following day, so that virtually anyone can find time in their schedule.
Seriously. How many people CAN'T manage to find time at least once every other week to
A> go to a bar
B> work out
C> play bingo
D> watch 2 hours of TV
E> go out to eat
...you get the idea.
Again, seriously, who really COULD NOT vote in person if that was the only option?
I'd like to vote early by absentee ballot. My mind's been made up for weeks on the candidates. Instead I'll be driving 40 miles to go vote in person come Election Day. Big county (area, not population) I live in, and they only give out absentee ballots to military or students it seems.
I like to vote late in the evening after dinner, just before the closing time.
I voted last week and it went smooth.
Originally Posted By: Kaboomba
Again, seriously, who really COULD NOT vote in person if that was the only option?
Someone who's away on a business trip?
jeff
Again, seriously, who really COULD NOT vote in person if that was the only option?
Someone who's away on a business trip?
jeff
During a recount after a close election there are different (more stringent) standards for rejecting absentee ballots than there are for normal ballots (see the Coleman/Franken recount for an example). This is the major reason I don't vote absentee. If there is any possibility of having my vote thrown out after an election, I want to make it as difficult as possible to accomplish.
Originally Posted By: bigmike
Wow. Are you serious? Do you not get out much? Should we get ink dabbled on our thumb when we're finished?
I think it is a great idea. It seems every election I see stories about people who voted multiple times with no consequences whatsoever. Asking for a government-issued ID and verifying US citizenship are no-brainers either.
Wow. Are you serious? Do you not get out much? Should we get ink dabbled on our thumb when we're finished?
I think it is a great idea. It seems every election I see stories about people who voted multiple times with no consequences whatsoever. Asking for a government-issued ID and verifying US citizenship are no-brainers either.
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