The Ballots are Here! The Ballots are Here!
George Savage ·
Oct 7, 2010 at 7:55am
Are you as excited as I am?
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Jul '10
Re: The Ballots are Here! The Ballots are Here!
I just can't get my mind around voting by mail.
There's something about going to the precinct and standing on line with other voters that seems intrinsic to the democratic process.
My precinct in Philadelphia went 94% for Obama in 2008. I felt like a spy on line.
In the primaries, as one of the poll workers led me to the voting booth, a second poll worker suddenly shouted, "No, no! He's a Republican!".
40 or so voters on line swiveled and stared at me as though I were the Elephant Man.
You don't get that kind of fun voting by mail.
Jun '10
Re: The Ballots are Here! The Ballots are Here!
I hate the vote-by-mail. You should have to low-crawl over broken glass, under barbed-wire with a IRS 1040 in your teeth to get to the ballot box.
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Kenneth & Pilgrim, I agree with you both. However, I surmise that you are blessed with predictable travel schedules. I can only wish. My entrepreneurial life tosses crisis-travel into the mix far too often for me to risk missing out on the chance to vote against my local elected representatives and also weigh-in on California's biennial proposition-palooza.
Jun '10
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Its possible I overstated the case. Actually, the foresight and civic involvement implied by a request for an absentee ballot might be an effective substitute for barbed-wire and broken glass. And overseas military of course.
May '10
Re: The Ballots are Here! The Ballots are Here!
Kenneth: My precinct in Philadelphia went 94% for Obama in 2008. I felt like a spy on line.
In the primaries, as one of the poll workers led me to the voting booth, a second poll worker suddenly shouted, "No, no! He's a Republican!".
I'm just impressed you pushed past the New Black Panther Party and made it inside in the first place.
May '10
Re: The Ballots are Here! The Ballots are Here!
Let's take a mythical election between John Doe (D) and Richard Roe (R). Roe is the underdog in a +6 Democratic district. On the Sunday before election day it's revealed that Doe was caught sexually trolling in online chat rooms.
However, Doe still wins the election because up to 25% of the electorate had no knowledge of his activities when they cast their votes early or absentee.
That is not how the system should work.
Edited on Oct 7, 2010 at 10:00amSep '10
Re: The Ballots are Here! The Ballots are Here!
EJ It also negates " Doe is falsely accused of trolling...." Seems like a wash to me.
May '10
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No it doesn't. Being accused by your opponent or even the news media would be one thing, arrested is another. And as we saw in the William Jefferson Smith case, Congress cleaning up their own joint is not a given.
Aug '10
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I wonder how many envelopes like that are printed .
Big government has a good article about how they'll try to steal the vote again.
Where I live, my inquiry to the county clerk as to the source on submitted registrations came back as a shock to find out there was an Acorn office in our mid-sized ,mostly rural town. Then the worse shock came as I found out the regs all went to our Secy of State ,one of the first of the Soros shock troops with the SOS project.
"If it's close, they'll steal it." Who prophesied that ?
Jul '10
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Curious, does it read anywhere on that envelope that it was made possible by "the stimulus[?]"
May '10
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I put my absentee ballot in the mail 2 weeks ago, and hope that it will help to put Quico Canseco over the top against Ciro Rodriguez in TX-23.
I agree with Pilgrim on his pre-requisites for voting, but would remind that the military voter doesn't have to be overseas to vote absentee. While I am a Texas resident, I can retain that residency no matter which state I am stationed in thanks to the foresight of the Soldiers & Sailors Civil Relief Act.