Reminder! Primaries in OH, NC, & IN tomorrow!!!!!

[napi21]

I'm sure the DUers in those States are well aware of the Primaries tomorrow, but PLEASE remind your neighbors and friends!

I heard on Cspan this AM that our "friend" Jean Schmidt looks to me in trouble! Seems her rant in Congress against Rep. Murtha (Pa.) hasn't been forgetten!

[madmom]

1. Yep just finished making up "cheat sheets" to take to the polls,

although I don't know why we call them that, because there is nothing cheating about it. My SO and daughter and I make lists so we don't forget or confuse names or whatever and take them with us.:patriot:

[napi21]

2. I do that too when there are a lot of different candidates running.

I remember one election in TX we had to vote on 23 judgeships, and 15 different other spots on the ticket! MY brain is way too crowded to remember that many different names! I do remember getting a really dirty look from one of the poll watchers though, when she saw that I had this piece of paper!

[madmom]

4. yeah my daughter was worried about that too, but I told her to ask

where it says she can't take it with her? At least yet anyway! We live in a VERY repuke town.

[VolcanoJen]

6. A story about "cheat sheets" from Election Day 2004

What a horrible day that was. :-(

I walked into my Ohio polling place in my lily-white neighborhood. The place was busy, but I didn't have to wait in line (unlike those in urban polling places who waited upwards of four hours that day).

I had a MoveOn.org "cheat sheet" that was thrust into my hands as I walked through the gauntlet of canvassers set up outside. It was helpful, because one of the candidates I was interested in was mounting a write-in campaign and I needed to know exactly how to spell his name.

So... I punch out my chads and head to the ballot box. An elderly male poll worker sneered at me and said, "You shouldn't bring that paper in here. You should do your research and know who you're voting for before you walk in here."

Now, it was an emotional day, and in Ohio we were really watching out for polling place shenanigans. I glared at him and said, "You have absolutely no right to speak to me that way. As a pollworker, you know it is my right to bring any paper I choose into this polling place. You're objecting to me because you don't like this particular piece of paper I'm holding."

The man rolled his eyes at me and reached for my ballot. I yanked it back and said, "I'll place it in the ballot box myself." Immediately, two of the female pollworkers leapt to his defense.

"He's just kidding," one of them shrieked at me.

"Oh, no, he is not kidding, he is quite serious. So am I. I'll place the ballot in the box myself."

By now, I was causing a small scene. Everyone was rolling their eyes and I felt like a pariah.

My hands shook as I put the ballot in the box and walked outside past a line of people absolutely glaring at me. I walked over to the MoveOn.org workers and told them what had just happened to me.

Three of them jumped on their cellphones immediately.

It was a horrible, horrible day, and easily my worst voting experience. :-(

[madmom]

10. I live in one of those places too, my SO had a problem with a

poll worker also in that election. My husband and son both vote in the same precinct,when it came time to sign in the worker kept insisting that his name was Jeff my husband said no I'm not Jeff and they tried to make him sign in under my son's name (Jeff) until he got very irate with them and threatened to call the sheriff. The real kicker was the poll worker was a neighbor (2 houses down)has been for 20 years and my son was even her newspaper delivery boy at one time.We often wonder if she was that senile or that crooked,either way she should be outta there.

[VolcanoJen]

12. My mom signed up to be a poll worker this year.

She'll be manning the polls tomorrow.

She said "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. This way, I can watch their shenanigans from the inside."

If I didn't have to work all day, I'd have done the same. I think it's a great idea that more of us get involved on the inside.

[VolcanoJen]

3. Sadly, Jean Schmidt is leading in the two polls I've seen.

SurveyUSA has her winning by a large margin; that poll came out just last week.

Bob McEwen is every bit as abominable as Jean Schmidt, but I want her to lose her primary just to teach that awful, awful woman a lesson.

On another note, the sign wars her in southwestern Ohio have really heated up... read this post in the Ohio Forum for a laugh. :-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=172x17109

[madmom]

5. LOL... that's funny thanks!

[napi21]

7. The report I heard about Schmidt being tied was from Roll Call

on cspan this morning. I don't think he said when the poll info was from. Only that She was expected to win by a very large margin and apparently, at least according to him, it's very close or tied. I agreee with you, I want to see her loose to, just to kick her again!!!!

[VolcanoJen]

8. I'm really surprised McEwen didn't use that House Floor video...

... against Mean Jean. All he had to do was remind everyone how much she embarrassed all of us when she called Rep. Murtha a coward on the House Floor.

She became a national laughing stock. The catcalls and boos from the other Representatives were staggering, and, in my memory, unprecedented.

Even Saturday Night Live ripped her to shreds.

So why didn't McEwen run ads featuring her Murtha Speech? Doesn't he want to win?

[OhioChick]

9. I'll have to remind the neighbors! n/t

[OhioChick]

11. State Warns Poll Workers Not To Cast Voters' Ballots

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State elections officials are reminding poll workers about procedures for new electronic touch-screen voting machines that will be used in Tuesday's primary.

Ohioans have to make sure they press the button or box at the end of the voting process to make sure they've cast their ballot properly.

If voters leave a machine without completing that step, state rules say poll workers won't be allowed to finish the process, and the votes will be canceled.

This has been Ohio's voting policy for years, but it could become more of an issue with the move from punch-card ballots to newer voting systems.

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/9135018/detail.html