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Zeldman said:
We early voted two weeks ago. It was my wife's second time to vote as an American citizen.
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Today was my wife’s second time as well. She was eligible one other time but she did the typical American thing and didn’t vote.

Zeldman said:
Everything you need to know in life is learned in kindergarten..!!! :lol::lol:
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That explains a lot. I never went to kindergarten. :(
 
One of our clients, indirectly, was who will most likely become California's governor. And I didn't vote for him by the way.
 
I will be very happy for the pause in political campaign ads, however brief it may be before the next cycle of silliness begins. I know they will be replaced by other commercials, but the other ones are generally not as absolutely insulting to the viewer's intelligence as the campaign ads.
 
I voted for a democrat for the first time in my life, just because his Republican opponent wouldn't show up to debate him.
 
I just check and saw my absentee ballot got counted! So even out of state I did my civic duty.
 
Sac Arrow said:
I voted.

Three weeks ago.
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Sounds like me. It's all vote by mail in the state of Washington. We don't have polling places. Your ballot arrives in the mail and you have the choice of mailing it back or dropping it in a ballot collection box. I was out of the country the 20th through the 29th of October. My ballot arrived on the 18th (funny, it wasn't supposed to be mailed to me until the 19th). I filled it out and dropped it in a ballot box on the 19th. Didn't stop all those darned election ads from showing up in the mailbox, or on TV until the "polls" closed at 8 pm this evening. Sure glad that's over.
 
Groundpounder said:
I voted for a democrat for the first time in my life, just because his Republican opponent wouldn't show up to debate him.
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First time huh? I’ve voted for candidates from both major parties as well as libertarians over my 42 years of voting. I cannot imagine going through my entire life only voting a straight party ticket. I have never understood that philosophy. But it is your right to do do. Thanks for voting.
 
Here in Florida they were going door to door in the afternoon. They were carrying a computer and only stopping at houses where folks hadn’t voted yet. They were reminding folks to vote.

Also, my daughter voted early and immediately the calls and texts stopped.

Kind of creepy.

John
 
We went ~ noon. There were 2 people in line ahead of us.

Oddly, we had attempted to go to Early Voting three different times and the line was around the building so I balked.
 
Ha. I vote early by mail; this year, the ID section of the ballot didn't have enough spaces for a driver's license number! Brilliant! So they had to send out a zillion letters on what to do. (They also have an alternate ID of the last four of your SSN, which I used.)
 
jsstevens said:
Here in Florida they were going door to door in the afternoon. They were carrying a computer and only stopping at houses where folks hadn’t voted yet. They were reminding folks to vote.

Also, my daughter voted early and immediately the calls and texts stopped.

Kind of creepy.

John
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I'll have to try that next election. I usually vote on election day, but if voting early will slow down the emails, texts, calls etc, then i will vote as early as possible.
 
Interesting on the early voting stopping the calls. I'm someone who votes on election day unless I have a reason why I can't because I'm old fashioned. Election day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, so I generally stick to that. Plus, my polling place is 1/2 mile from my house and to do early voting requires me to go more out of my way.
 
JOhnH said:
I'll have to try that next election. I usually vote on election day, but if voting early will slow down the emails, texts, calls etc, then i will vote as early as possible.
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Very creepy, my daughter has been getting Election related texts that are addressed to me and her father. Her cell plan is not ours and she didn't even port her number when she was on ours. Even if they connect her to us why do they assume we are using her cell number?

Fortunately I have yet to get election texts. But I've been getting a lot of election related emails except they are all going into the automatic spam folder. Why does my email provider assume I don't want to see the messages from (famous politicians of one particular party)? I'll label them spam anyway but that's pretty presumptuous of the email provider.
 
SkyDog58 said:
First time huh? I’ve voted for candidates from both major parties as well as libertarians over my 42 years of voting. I cannot imagine going through my entire life only voting a straight party ticket. I have never understood that philosophy. But it is your right to do do. Thanks for voting.
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I actually wish that "check one box" option were outlawed on voting ballots. I'd force people to fill out every bubble next to the party they want if they want to vote party-line. I think there's a part of it that provides incentives to simply tick the "easy choice" box and go on.
 
SoonerAviator said:
I actually wish that "check one box" option were outlawed on voting ballots. I'd force people to fill out every bubble next to the party they want if they want to vote party-line. I think there's a part of it that provides incentives to simply tick the "easy choice" box and go on.
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I believe some states have removed that option. I wish they all would. Pick a candidate, damn it, not a party!

Remove party affiliations from the ballot as well.
 
SkyDog58 said:
I believe some states have removed that option. I wish they all would. Pick a candidate, damn it, not a party!

Remove party affiliations from the ballot as well.
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Exactly. It would force people to either research and learn the candidates they wish to vote for, or they'd end up just picking names they "liked", lol.
 
SoonerAviator said:
I actually wish that "check one box" option were outlawed on voting ballots. I'd force people to fill out every bubble next to the party they want if they want to vote party-line. I think there's a part of it that provides incentives to simply
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I always thought that if you vote the full ticket you can still pick individual "one offs" if desired.

To be honest, I think the Pres and VP should be separate votes and not a party buy. Most states do that for Gov and Lt Gov.

Oh well. it's only 2 more years till the next change doesn't happen.

 
Something I didn't know until last week was that it's public record which elections you do/don't vote in. I got a mailer from a candidate showing which elections in the last few years I'd voted in, and said HOW I vote is confidential, but whether I vote is public record. That really should be confidential, between the county clerk and me.
 
Gerhardt said:
Something I didn't know until last week was that it's public record which elections you do/don't vote in. I got a mailer from a candidate showing which elections in the last few years I'd voted in, and said HOW I vote is confidential, but whether I vote is public record. That really should be confidential, between the county clerk and me.
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I would imagine that has to do with visibility with combating voter fraud. It's a transparency issue, you know, dead people voting and all.
 
Gerhardt said:
Something I didn't know until last week was that it's public record which elections you do/don't vote in. I got a mailer from a candidate showing which elections in the last few years I'd voted in, and said HOW I vote is confidential, but whether I vote is public record. That really should be confidential, between the county clerk and me.
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Technically they only know you showed up at a polling station. You sign in, and then submit a blank ballot, and therefore would not have voted.
 
SkyDog58 said:
Remove party affiliations from the ballot as well.
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I like that idea. At least it would spread the votes of the totally uninformed people that only vote for a candidate based on the R or D. If they don't know which party a candidate is from when they enter the booth, then they don't have enough info to make an informed choice.
 
Ravioli said:
Technically they only know you showed up at a polling station. You sign in, and then submit a blank ballot, and therefore would not have voted.
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My vote did not count.

I mean it didn't. It only counts if your candidate and/or issue wins. If yours wins, your vote may have made a difference. If yours loses, your vote was inconsequential.
 
SkyDog58 said:
First time huh? I’ve voted for candidates from both major parties as well as libertarians over my 42 years of voting. I cannot imagine going through my entire life only voting a straight party ticket. I have never understood that philosophy. But it is your right to do do. Thanks for voting.
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If you have either a far left or far right ideology then you’re generally never going to have any candidate that represents you - you just vote for the one that you think will do the least harm, which will generally end up being along party lines.
 
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