The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

kingfish gabbneb posted that story like five years ago

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

boo.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I knew how to read accents

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Seattle voting in numbers despite bad weather

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

interesting story up on kos about GOP shenanigans in maryland.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris Cilizza's viewer's guide

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

MANUFACTURED BY NUNS

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

xp to gabbneb - hard plastic shells

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, mine was a thin Sharpie.

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

the Sharpie - workhorse of American Democracy

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

sharpie?

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

fun with Captain America

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

the lever really makes it official

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

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

well, do you?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

wowayweewah

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

Quell yr anxiety with the knowledge that things will get worse for the next 2 years, no matter what.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

convo with buddy in omaha:

me: does Klebb have a chance?
Sent at 1:38 PM on Tuesday
chris: dunno
me: hmm
chris: but he is not my district, i don't think
Sent at 1:45 PM on Tuesday
chris: he is district 3
i am district 2
me: ah.
ah well
chris: i have lovely lee terry
who is a total tool
me: hooray
chris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Terry
just look at him

TOOL

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

how do i shot early election results / exit polls?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

daily kos exit poll thread

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

CNN says " a lot of surprises";
reasons why people voted:
corruption
terrorism
economy
Iraq - of these 57% disapprove;
"What issues determine your vote?"

62% national
33% local

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

First exit polls segment on CNN kicks off a full evening of Bill Schneider missing his mark and looking at the wrong camera, and board ops or whoever scrambling to get mic levels right.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Patience! Peruse this while you're waiting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x776#OR

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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