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Wed Jun-02-04 11:43 PM
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Do you vote only once every four years for president?
Once every two years for house, senate, governor, etc.
Do you vote every year in local municipal elections?
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:43 PM
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:01 AM
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10. every single election |
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be it local, regional or national
and I ask people if they're registered to vote and if they say 'no' I go to my car and produce a voter registration card and hand it to them
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:06 AM
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11. It's the only time you get to express your opinion, |
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:09 AM
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12. Perhaps you might want to edit that: |
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And we have to make them listen, by counting our vote properly.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:30 AM
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22. I've been voting for a long time now. |
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FWIW I think electronic voting is a stupid idea, and I'm a very good software engineer, but I will vote whatever method is used.
Web voting has promise ...
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:44 PM
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:45 PM
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Local elections are very important.
I missed a primary once, when I had the flu. But it is the only time I have missed voting, since I became eligible.
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:46 PM
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4. Always, and sometimes twice in the same election! |
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It's okay. I'm in Texas; it's perfectly okay here. :)
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:47 PM
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5. I vote in every election, |
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local, national, you name it.
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:47 PM
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:48 PM
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The ballots come right to my house so there's no excuse for missing an election. Once in a while I even get a ballot when I didn't know there was going to be an election. You guys should really get mail voting. No touch screen computers, you have to use a ballot, it solves most of the problems I think.
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:54 PM
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8. Every two to four years. |
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Edited on Wed Jun-02-04 11:56 PM by BevHarris
This shocked one guy who opposes paper ballots so much that he led an editorial in the Seattle Times with it.
(Gasp!) She doesn't always vote.
Well, I started to explain why I didn't vote in 2002 -- that was just 5 weeks after I'd gotten into the voting story, and I was manning a hotline for trouble with the machines, along with four of my colleagues, and had planned to go vote at noon. The phone went nuts! There were so many trouble reports that I decided I could do more good by nurturing this growing awareness of the problem than by going to vote -- and besides, there was a strange white car in my driveway, just sitting and watching. Very odd when you know that I live down a rather long side street at the end of a culdesac. I later figured that car had something to do with the guy who showed up (uninvited) to "help" us monitor the election.
But then I decided not to explain. For many months now it's been in my speeches.
"I don't always vote. I always read the voters pamphlet, and sometimes I don't feel the call to exercise my voice."
But damn -- when I DO exercise my vote, I sure expect it to be counted accurately! Sometimes people like me figure our neighbors will get it right. Never do we give permission for some unknown entity to hijack all the votes.
And yes, I'll be voting this fall, but I need to do it absentee, since I'll certainly be busy with election monitoring.
There's my 2 cents.
Bev
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:11 AM
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14. Woh. Guess I'm the only one. |
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My husband always votes. And never, ever, in predictable ways.
Maybe I'll have to look into this "voting in every single election" thing.
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Thu Jun-03-04 10:13 AM
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33. I always vote, since I always find some reason that... |
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one person would be a better representative than another. However, you represent a wide swath of the American public who only vote in major elections. And that's not a bad representation at all considering what it is that you are doing to bring to light the atrociousness of black-box voting. And more power to you for being up front with that in your speeches.
I'm sure many, many Americans can relate to "and sometimes I don't feel the call to exercise my voice." That, in itself, packs a lot of truth about who is out there running for office.
Keep up the GREAT work! :bounce:
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Wed Jun-02-04 11:59 PM
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9. Always...even in the primaries and local elections. |
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:11 AM
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13. Every time, every level and I get very involved and give lots too. |
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I like that my money stays local and I give it to people I know.
Example: we (NWPC) endorsed a local County Supervisor whom I have met many times, and she also takes her dog to the vet where my daughter works. I told my daughter that by voting for her she keeps her job, so she can keep taking her dog to her, which in turn keeps my daughter's job. :)
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:13 AM
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15. Every primary and general election |
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:14 AM
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16. Enough to be back stabbed by every local politician! |
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And enough to know that many who speak the loudest on politics never bother to vote! :nopity:
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:16 AM
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17. Every single time an election is held in which I am eligible to vote |
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which means pretty damn often. School board, dogcatcher, you name it.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:18 AM
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18. Per year or per election? |
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:evilgrin:
Seriously, however many elections there are - this year we've had a presidential primary and a city council election so far, and there are school board and non-presidential primary elections coming up soon (June and August), then, of course there'll be the general election... so that's five this year.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:21 AM
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19. I vote every chance I get, even if I have to |
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get on the phone and start calling around to try to find out who I'm voting for. I don't want to vote for a creationist local candidate or a hanging judge by mistake. If I'm not familiar with a candidate I'll call people I trust who are likely to know.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:26 AM
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primary, general, state, local, county, irrigation district, ballot initiative -- whatever. If I get an opportunity to vote, I vote.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:28 AM
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21. All three. I vote on everything. n/t |
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:32 AM
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23. I've voted in all the presidential elections since I turned 18 |
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I've also voted in the 2000 and 2004 primaries, and I try to make sure I get an absentee ballot (live in IN for school, vote in TX) for the off-year and local elections as well -- like in 2002, for instance, for all the good it did! I admit, I don't feel all that bad missing the local elections; my parents are pretty good about letting me know when anything important is on the ballot in local elections (lots and lots of local races are either unopposed Democrat or Democrat vs. joke Republican/Libertarian/other candidate) and I make sure to get a ballot then. The problem is, the voter registrar's office in my hometown is often very, very slow, so that if you don't request a ballot well in advance it's always possible that your ballot won't arrive in time -- once I sent away for my ballot a month in advance, and it arrived the day of the election! Much easier to keep track of for the big elections.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:45 AM
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24. Every Presidential Election |
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and... if I understand the local situation, locally as well. There have been times when I "sat out" an election because I didn't geel my vote was informed enough.
But I've hit *every* Presidential election since I was old enough to vote.
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Thu Jun-03-04 04:38 AM
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Thanks to your f*cking War On Drugs.
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Thu Jun-03-04 04:56 AM
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26. Every election from dog catcher to president n/t |
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:32 AM
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I have voted in every election since I turned old enough to vote. As glamourous as a presidential election is, elections for school board, city council, state legislature, and the county commission have more impact on yur day to day life. I used to work with a guy that constantly complained about property taxes and the fact that his town (Lake Mary, Florida) didn't have street lights. I finally said one day "Well John Lake Mary's having an election in September for their City Council who are you going to vote for?" (I'm a news junkie too and keep track of municipal elections). He started this rant about how they were all crooks. I said if they're crooks vote them out. He finally admitted he wasn't even registered. So I said that if he didn't vote, he shouldn't complain about what he had -- or didn't have. That shut him up for a few days. Then he started gripping again. I brought in a voters registration form and made him fill it out in my presence. I was all of 22 at the time and had a lot more brass. I still carry the forms with me today and when someone complains about the government, I always ask if they are registered to vote. If not, I whip out a form and make them fill it out PRONTO.
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:47 AM
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28. I'm in Chicago: several times/election. n/t |
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:50 AM
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senate races, governor races, and the GE. I love to vote. It's such an enpowering feeling!
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:51 AM
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I do my part to keep the fundies from taking over the school board.
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Thu Jun-03-04 10:14 AM
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34. I vote in every election, primary, general, or special |
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without fail each time an election is held.
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