As you know, early voting for the primaries has begun. Now is your chance to be heard. Get out there and vote for (or against) the candidate of your choice.
And yes, Republicans, you can still cast your ballot for any number of candidates, from Duncan Hunter to Hoa Tran to “Uncommitted” (wonder how he’ll do?), but not Tom Tancredo.
Your choices:
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I was very surprised at the turnout at 9am this morning. I barely found a place to park and only one voting machine available when I walked in.
Remember folks, vote early and vote often!
/was kinda bummed that I didn’t get the “I voted” sticker….sniff, sniff
As a GOP election judge for many years, I don’t envy my Democrat colleagues come March 4. I will wager there will be thousdands of voters show up to vote in the Democratic primary who are not registered to vote, who have no ID and who then throw a fit about how they are being discriminated against and how they will call Jesse or Al, etc.
But the real hell will be for election judges in the Fall, when tons of ineligible voters will be turned away from the polls because judges are, uh, following the rules. Many will make a scene, many will claim they are not being allowed to vote because they are for Obama. Many will claim they registered at DMV or some church, and insist that they should be allowed to vote because it’s the county’s fault that their registrations were never received.
The best thing the legislature did for the long-suffering souls manning the polls is to create the provisional ballot. This allows a person to vote, subject to a later determination by election officials as to whether it should count. It almost never does. In fact, we are obliged to tell them they can cast a provisional ballot, but it almost certainly won’t count. My experience is they ignore the last part of the statement, cast their provisional ballot, and go away satisfied.
I saw this scenario play out a number of times in the last two Presidential elections. I cannot imagine how it will be magnified with the “charismatic” Obama as the Democratic nominee.
(It’s amazing how many people think they have a right to vote without ever having lifted a finger to register.)
Tonight the libnuts here will slug it out over Obama and Hillary in the Hawaii Caucuses. Sounds like we should send the liberals here to vote: http://www.answers.com/topic/caucasus-mountains?cat=travel
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Let me clarify a point. We were told in election judge school that we should tell the provisional voter of his right to vote provisionally but that it probably won’t count. The few stories I have seen on the actual outcome show that it usually doesn’t. However, I have not seen an authoritative report on the percentage of provisional ballots statewide. I will try to research this. I do believe the last report I saw indicated that the number counted was more than I would have thought.
I voted early once, never again, unforeseen events can nullify or alter a choice 180°.
If Chucky had been on the ballot and his peccadilloes not exposed until after the primary many people would be very unhappy, it happens.
I was #12 to vote in the GOP primary at 9:45 this morning in Fort Bend County at a location a few miles from home. That’s probably a good turnout for the first morning of early voting, and I hope we have a higher than (the pitiful) normal turnout
this time around. Voted for Fred Thompson and then went on down the line supporting the most conservative candidates among the choices offered.
Pasted the I Voted sticker on the side of my purse. Wonderful that there was a crowd at your polling place, ST, and sorry about the sticker shortage up there.
RickG, I hope every polling place has a large jar of Excedrin available to those working there….
7. Adee
Amen. I hope everyone appreciates their poll workers. It can be a thankless job. I have been the subject of abuse on more than one occasion - including from an Episcopal Priest who made a scene, demanding to be arrested, when he was asked to remove his Kerry campaign paraphernalia from his body while in the polling place (he was asked, by the way, by the Democratic Asst. Judge, not by me). Regrettably, we declined his invitation to make him a cause celebre.
Remember folks - the local poll workers are enforcing the rules made by the legislature and the courts. Yelling at them will not fix the problem.
Rick G,
They are *LAWS* and if not properly inforced the poll worker can go to jail. Its rare…very rare, but it can happen.
Before I moved from Stafford, I was an election judge fore about three years and enjoyed it. It was rewarding. Difficult but rewarding. The hours stunk, and sometimes we were not in the most comfortable environs, and the pay was ruffly half of what I was making at the time, but I still felt very proud of my service.
My favorite and we got these every single time…”What do you mean I am in the wrong voting place, its 6:58! How am I supposed to get over there to vote?! Its all the way across the county!”
Ron
I have decided that I am voting uncommitted for President and then finish out the rest of the ballot.
Everyone always claims they want high voter turnout.
Once again… as always?… I am the exception.
I hope I am the only person in the entire country to vote. That way I get to pick every official everywhere.
If everyone here promises not to vote, I’ll write myself in for Emperor, and then we’ll see some REAL action about taxes, illegal immigration, national security, long appeals for death row inmates, and people who get into the “15 items or fewer” lanes at grocery stores with more than 15 items.
Can a sign be legally posted at polling places:
Would this make a difference?
#12 In English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and whatever else other language may apply.
We have 30 different races and/or referendums on my ballot (Ft. Bend). I don’t know who most of these people running are. How do I vote responsibly? Just vote for pres and leave the rest blank (besides the referendums, of course). Has anyone from LST weighed in on these referendums?