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Hanne Posted Tue 04 Mar, 2008 9:51 PM |
weirdmominaustin wrote:
On election day you have to go to a specific spot and bring either your voting card or just a picture ID. With early voting they have spots set up everywhere (grocery stores, the mall, libraries, etc.) and you can go anywhere within your county and vote (same thing- either voting card or picture ID).
The idea is to be so flex that people have no excuse except laziness and ignorance.
There was just an article I read on yahoo a few days ago about how progressive Texas is with early voting. It's pretty rare that Texas is called progressive!
The early voting place was across the street from where our son's soccer practice was so it wasn't going to get any more convenient than that for us.
To caucus tonight I'd have to go the polling place by my house.
Sounds brilliant to me. Like you say, it'd give people less excuses not to vote :o) |
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cornax Posted Tue 04 Mar, 2008 11:14 PM |
weirdmominaustin wrote:
I voted but I passed on certain categories because I hadn't researched the candidates and couldn't make an informed decision.
I feel bad that I hadn't but I wasn't planning on voting when we did but we happened to be at an early voting place and I wanted to make sure I did it as opposed to waiting and somehow not voting at all.
In the last general election I had to vote for a county Registrar of Wills. I mean, really? The person who rubber stamps wills is an elected official? No, I didn't research the "candidates" so I skipped it. Poor things...it was a big day for them and no one else cared! |
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weirdmom Posted Wed 05 Mar, 2008 4:30 AM |
cornax wrote: In the last general election I had to vote for a county Registrar of Wills. I mean, really? The person who rubber stamps wills is an elected official? No, I didn't research the "candidates" so I skipped it. Poor things...it was a big day for them and no one else cared!
Wow, I've never heard of that one. I always get a kick out of "railroad commissioner." That meant something at some point but certainly not now. |
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ricv64 Posted Wed 05 Mar, 2008 4:32 AM |
How you vote on the nickleback measure ?
over here , absentee and early votes are counted last |
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ricv64 Posted Wed 05 Mar, 2008 5:08 AM |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwsIeYTNLdo
I dare you ! |
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mili Posted Wed 05 Mar, 2008 8:04 AM |
ricv64 wrote:
over here , absentee and early votes are counted last
I've been counting votes a few times (great atmosphere, hard work), and here the counting starts on the morning of the last election day (usually there's two), so that the early votes (or pre-votes?) are counted by the time the polling stations close. That's when the first guesses of the result come out.
In our system you have to write a number inside a circle
and unclear cases are committed to a board that decides if the vote is valid. The most popular nonlisted candidate is Donald Duck, followed by the classic female genital drawing. Everybody over 18 is entitled to vote without registration, you just receive a letter to tell where your polling station is (usually a nearby school). |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Wed 05 Mar, 2008 9:31 AM |
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
Dubz
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