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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Did you vote? 26

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I did.

After I said I wasn't, I decided to.

I won't get all political on you, like Sam did, unless you want me to.

Otherwise, feel free to answer the question if you want to. Our Euro friends can even get in the act:

Who would you have voted for?

toodles.

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  • My polling place is in the opposite direction from work from my house. I thought I would get up and get there by 6 and vote and then turn around and go to work. I decided instead to take a 1/2 day (comp) I have coming and leave work after lunch and go vote.
  • Stood in line for an hour -- the poll workers said they'd never seen anything like it.

    Godd news for Kerry, I'd have to say.

    • I don't know if I went too early, or too late or whatever, but the only holdup was that the women controlling the "M-Z" table and their inability to determine that MENT comes after MENS in the alphabet.

      Smooth sailing - we were in and out in 10 minutes.
    • Took me an hour and a half (well, 1hr 35 minutes) total. Were about 300 people in line in front of me...good fun.

      HUGE turn out.

      A friend of mine was an early voter. He said the poll workers told him more people turned out for the early vote than voted all of the last election. (In his county)

      Wow.

      Something else Georgia had on it:

      Gay Marriage Amendment vote. Interesting....very interesting.

      • 2 freaking hours. They had us all in one line (3 precincts), kept calling for another precinct, we found out an hour and a half into it that others were showing up, voting, and leaving before we got to the MIDDLE of the line.

        But I voted. And then risked my life and limb to drive up I-25 to get to work.

        Scary.
  • just finished voting about half an hour ago. Voted pretty much straight Republican. I don't always do that but this year there weren't many independant options in AZ that I liked.

    If anyone is curious I voted Yes on prop 200 and no on prop 400.

  • And judging by the people at the polling location, I could probably vote about 12 more times, and they would be none the wiser.

    I voted for my party more than my candidate, because I feel that there needs to be more competition than two parties that currently run the system. Otherwise, I voted for Republicans where there wasn't a Libertarian.

    Maryland is almost 65% Democrat, and I could have told you who was going to win this election in Maryland 10 years ago. I'm hoping that the ad campaign of EJ Pipkin
  • the greens (if you even have that), because that's what I usually vote here at home. That is, I only voted for a national once, in Belgium and I couldn't care less. (They changed the law, before that I couldn't vote the nationals in Belgium, because I wasn't living in Belgium.) I now have Luxembourgish citizenship, but this year I wasn't allowed to vote because I was nationalized to late in the year.

    On local level I usually vote socialist ;-) Anyways: Kerry or Bush, we're all screwed because I don't t

    • Note that the Green Parties in countries like Germany and Australia, who have significant political power, have (this is both cause and effect) relatively mainstream positions. The US Green Party is so marginalized, except for a few local elections, that it's evolved as a nut party, which then keeps it marginalized.
    • On local level I usually vote socialist ;-)

      I have voted communist twice (Yes, for real) and the Finnish Left Alliance once.
  • Since my bride and I are on holiday. Just a bit more time on the train and I can crack open a bottle (or two) of some nice Italian wine. Saw the posting about your truck. Damn alcohol abuse!

  • Yes (Score:2)

    by wheany ( 460585 )
    I voted in the recent municipal elections in Finland. I have voted in every "real" election every since I was 18, except on the first round of the presidential election in 2000. I did vote on the second round, though. I don't remember why I didn't vote on the first round, but it was probably because I knew practically nothing of the multiple candidates. By the second round I had studied the two remaining candidates at least a little. I decided to vote for Tarja Halonen. And afterwards I have felt better and
  • While I didn't have to deal with lines, there were actually enough people there at 7:15am that I got the last available machine. Normally there are only one or two other voters in at a time. VERY good sign IMHO - no matter who wins, people actually got out and voted.
  • this afternoon.

  • Yes. (Score:2)

    by daoine ( 123140 ) *
    I was voter #299 in my precinct. And they didn't have stickers!

    Oh, and I also vote to beat up the guy who rammed his car into mine last night. Visualize using your brakes, einstein.


  • How'd you vote?

  • I voted. I got my "I voted today" sticker.
  • Got there shortly after sunrise. Decent crowd at an elementary school, but very few of us younger folk at that hour.

    I then spent the rest of the day volunteering as a runner for the local Democratic party, taking both supplies and voters to the polling places.

    Later at the 'victory' party, I admitted to some of them that although I had busted my ass for them this year, I consider both them and the Republicans (at least at the national level) to be corrupt bunches of thugs, and I might be working just as ha

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