The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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i am really terrified i wont be able to vote.

you will be. if you're in line by 8pm local time, you will be able to vote.

polls are supposed to say open til 8.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

If you're there before they close up shop (7pm, I think), they have to let you vote, right?

This might be able to help:

http://www.vote411.org/

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

vote by mail is awesome.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

poll closing times vary widely by state and municipality. in NYC, polls are open 6 AM - 9 PM.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

That website will tell you when your polls close, according to state/polling place.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

vote by mail would be a great way to piss off karl rove, but i have a lot of problems with that idea

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Air America newsbreak just mentioned that there are efforts in Denver to keep the polls open two hours longer than usual.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

i voted before 9 am at PS 139 in brooklyn but it was straight-up in-and-out, ten minutes tops. i did some poll-watching for the sept. primaries and it's not a hugely packed polling place to begin with (some EDs had a turnout of about fifteen people, though presumably there'll be quite a bit more this time around).

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

vote by mail would be a great way to piss off karl rove, but i have a lot of problems with that idea

??????????

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, and dig this shit:

batshit rightwing radio loony Laura Ingraham is now asking her callers to flood the Democratic Voter Protection phone lines.

Most things don't piss me off to violence; this does.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

NPR just interviewed a former-Britishes voting in his first American election who doesn't like Bush but is voting against Menendez because he's always for cleaning up government

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

kingfish gabbneb posted that story like five years ago

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

who doesn't like Bush but is voting against Menendez because he's always for cleaning up government

I'm afraid this is a prevailing sentiment. Logic is a bitch.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

boo.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

he doesn't like bush -- who's a dimwit leeching offa his daddy's name and connections -- so he's gonna vote for another dimwit leaching offa HIS daddy's name and connections?!? wtf.

xpost

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I knew how to read accents

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9149

One story after another of voting machine problems...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

polls to stay open 2hr45min longer in Indiana due to "machine irregularities"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I voted around 8 am here in Hoboken. There wasn't much line at all, just a really slow elderly lady in a walker ahead of me. There was much more of a line in '04.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder about this whole 'fuck it, I'm not waiting anymore' demographic. What do people have to do, anyway? Can a burrito GET cold enough? C'mon, people.

Oh, and, as usual, Pat's right.

― Juan Milius (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

who doesn't like Bush but is voting against Menendez because he's always for cleaning up government

Even if Menendez has been involved in some shady dealings (which I've never seen proof of) I figure there's no way that he'd be able to do as much damage in Washington as Kean would.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Seattle voting in numbers despite bad weather

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

i like that malaysian gambling syndicate voting machine! i mean, i didn't use one, but if anyone is interested in security and process fairness, it's casinos!

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

The county in Indiana where all the machines are going coocoo crazy is the one that Indianapolis is in, it may be worth noting. The state capitol! Good job, Indiana!

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

interesting story up on kos about GOP shenanigans in maryland.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I used a marker like the ones you use on CDs to vote today. Connect the arrows, lalalala.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Chris Cilizza's viewer's guide

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've still never seen one of those voting booths with the levers and curtains.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

only thing i've ever voted on. what do they have instead of curtains in other places?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I used a marker like the ones you use on CDs to vote today.

sharpie?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

MANUFACTURED BY NUNS

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I know a labor organizer in NJ who's been doing some campaign work for Menendez, feeling entirely like an agent of scuzz.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

xp to gabbneb - hard plastic shells

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

In 2000 I got to vote on one of those connect-the-arrows machines, but they'd switched to electronics by 2004. I voted in 2002 but have largely erased it from my memory, I think maybe it was electronic then.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, mine was a thin Sharpie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

the Sharpie - workhorse of American Democracy

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

sharpie?

handed to you by T.O. (after he pulled it outta his sock)?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

These GOP tactics should come as a surprise to no one. I can't believe anyone was naive enough to believe the Republicans would allow themselves to lose in a fairly contested election. Come on, it's a GOP majority all around. Maybe we can repeal the 22nd and keep Dubya on to 'finish the job.'

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/pg2/2005/0415/photo/g_tosharpie_i.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9776/capvcap3ho1.jpg

fun with Captain America

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've still never seen one of those voting booths with the levers and curtains.

these are the best kind - you really feel like yr voting.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

the lever really makes it official

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.gildia.pl/_n_/film/tworcy/clint_eastwood/foto-200.jpg

well, do you?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I know a labor organizer in NJ who's been doing some campaign work for Menendez, feeling entirely like an agent of scuzz.

It doesn't help that his name sounds vaguely like a synonym for deception: mendacious Menendez.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

My fucking absentee ballot didn't come in! grrr.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Misleading flyers were handed out at several Maryland polling places by men and women recruited by the GOP governor's campaign from out-of-state homeless shelters, the Washington Post reports. The flyers, given to voters in a heavily Democratic area, showed GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich as a Democrat:
Erik Markle, one of the people handing out literature for Ehrlich, who is seeking reelection, and Steele, the current lieutenant governor who is campaigning to replace retiring Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D), said he was recruited at a homeless shelter in Philadelphia.
After a two-hour bus ride to Maryland, Markle said the workers were greeted early this morning by first lady Kendel Ehrlich, who thanked them as they were outfitted in T-shirts and hats with the logo for Ehrlich's reelection campaign. Nearly all of those recruited, Markle said, are poor and black. Workers traveled to Maryland in at least seven large buses.

Ehrlich's GOP ticketmate, Senate candidate Michael Steele, is also listed as a Democrat on the flyer.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001960.php

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

wowayweewah

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

only thing i've ever voted on. what do they have instead of curtains in other places?

I take a ballot from a poll worker, walk over to a stand that resembles a podium. It has blue risers on it forming a topless box around you for privacy. Velcroed to the podium is a pen resembling a sharpie. When I'm done connecting the arrows, I personally feed it into the ballot box through a device that unfortunately looks like a paper shredder.

I'd like to try one of those booths with the curtains just so I could vote with my dick or do a line off the lever or something.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

so nothing happens until 6pm est at the earliest? where should we go for early results?

― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

A bar with happy hour running all night. You'll need it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

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