The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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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

OK tell me Karl Rove can pull 6 million evangelical voters out of his ass to make up the deficit those numbers imply.

dems takin' over.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No matter how bad it gets, I am looking forward to a live hour of the Daily Show / Colbert Report. Someone at work told me Dan Rather is doing some commentary? Does anyone know if this is true? I miss Dan.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

this is interesting - mostly it's right with the Dem-favoring conventional wisdom, but three races stick out like sore thumbs. one is CO-5, a very Republican district that I think might even be a typo (CO-4, not on the list, is considered closer), but might indicate that the GOP thinks Haggard is gonna have a big impact there. more importantly, the really strange ones are CA-4, a lean GOP district, and CA-50, a likely GOP one. their inclusion suggests to me that the GOP anticipates that the wave is gonna hit the news early, depressing turnout in California enough that it might flip both of those seats.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

haha nice link beth. i actually voted against a similar ballot initiative in florida because it would have made it a state constitutional amendment. don't think it's appropriate, and don't want to have to up against the constitution in court if my property ever gets ganked

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

because rest assured that florida developers will find a way to get around it

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

That just happened to be where I was on the page when I posted the link, but there's a passel of states try for 48-hr notification for parents of minors seeking abortions, also man-woman combo only allowable marriage shit.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

anybody driving folks to the polls today?

of course, if you were, you wouldn't be around to respond, so oh well.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Alright, off I go to pull the satisfying lever (and then be without internet and cable for the rest of the night).

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Here in MA I'm looking forward to our first Dem Gov in forever.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

and then be without internet and cable for the rest of the night).

hell with that. it's bar time! after i get down calling last minute people, i'ma go drink beer and yell at the TV for 3 hours with the rest of the folks i've been volunteering with.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I have also heard this.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought I heard Katie Couric announce it last night, in one of those bursts of enthusiasm under which a current of resentment swells and snaps.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

SENATE EXIT POLLS AS OF 5:30 EST: Democrats Leading: Virginia (52-47), Rhode Island (53-46), Pennsylvania (57-42), Ohio (57-43), New Jersey (52-45), Montana (53-46), Missouri (50-48), Maryland (53-46)…GOP Leading: Tennessee (51-48), Arizona (50-46)…“

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Has this been posted anywhere else yet? This is appalling!

Virginia voters receiving robo-calls from "The Elections Commission" stating that they'll be arrested if they show up to vote tomorrow.

I seriously think that they should track down the people doing this and execute them for treason.

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

from that ny times article:

In New York, where polls suggest that Democrats are about to sweep the statewide offices, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton reported that her daughter, Chelsea, had run into trouble trying to cast her vote in Manhattan.

Greeting early morning commuters at the train station in Chappaqua, N.Y., Mrs. Clinton said that when her daughter went to a polling site at 20th Street on the West Side, workers told her that her name was not listed in a book of registered voters.

Investigation found that book containing her name had been sent to the wrong district, so she could not enter the polling booth. But election officials offered her an affidavit vote, similar to the provisional votes used in other states, according to John Ravitz, executive director of the Board of Elections.

“Her vote will count,” he said.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml?ml_collection=77243

yup, Dan Rather is listed as being on.

how much is Keith O going to broadcast tonight?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I seriously think that they should track down the people doing this and execute them for treason.

MoveOn.org is offering at $250K reward.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75874

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

omg cnn blogger party wtflol

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

omg cnn blogger party wtflol

???

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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