This is bar none the dumbest shit you've ever said, which is a bold clam, I know.
IRV makes hella more sense than bullshit party primaries, for one thing. Also, how are we not emulating Italy right now, except maybe for enforcing accountability even less? Buhh??? Duhhh??!?
I wonder how much of this record turnout consists of gen xyz'ers and such.
― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway i went and voted this morning, not that anything is really a mystery in california.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
"MR. PRESIDENT, YOU JUST VOTED ON A COKE MACHINE."
Arkansas looks likely to go straight Democrat in our constitutional offices (Gov., Lt. Gov., Sec. of State, etc.) Add that to our Democrat controlled legislature, two Democrat U.S. Senators, and three out of four Democrat congressmen... and you get a state that would probably vote for Bush over Kerry again.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
And personally, knowing the political tendencies of America, I don't really want to see fringe groups getting more influence--or for the country to become even more segmented than it currently is--but you may disagree.
Anyway, god bless, but if the events of this decade hasn't spurred electoral reform, it seems like energies might better be directed elsewhere.
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not statewide. I used the Inkavote optical scanner system this morning (woohoo, owned by a Malaysian gambling syndicate!)
I showed up at the 7am opening and there were already a couple people in line. As I was leaving, I noticed that someone was getting a provisional ballot, but I couldn't hear well enough to suss out what the circumstances were.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I voted Green for senator. I just can't bring myself to ever vote for Feinstein.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
sounds like any dem editorial until you get to the immigration stuff - things is getting weird.
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
In New York, every office is almost always a Dem lock in the general election. Tho if I had to vote for Hillary to give the Dems a majority, it still wouldn't happen. And the Green Senate candidate was antiwar. And fuuuuuck the spineless Dems.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Wondering this same thing myself. All I saw were ancients, but, as I said, my voting machine was in a rest/nursing home.
I ended up voting for at least one Republican candidate in a local election precisely because she was the only candidate who ran a non-slanderous campaign. Thinking I maybe should've thought that through more, but whatev, local KY politics will never be anything short of hilarious.
― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― ath (ath), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
vote carcetti yall
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, carcetti did great things for that city, he's looking at the governor's office..
― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
There was a report today on local radio that a coupla folks had set up a "temporary ballot drop site" with a cardboard box on the roadside somewhere in SE Portland. The host advised the caller to call the cops next.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ^@^ (map), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
any other sources?
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
"Campaign Nears Climax As Polls Tighten"
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Kinky out on the trail, kissin' doggies
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
already implemented in san francisco; on the ballot in oakland.
― viborg (viborg), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I voted for what may be the last time on an old big-handle-and-toggle machine - any nyc'ers know when we go high-tech?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
you will be. if you're in line by 8pm local time, you will be able to vote.
xp
polls are supposed to say open til 8.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link