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Christopher Alan Miller
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Old people voting + old poll workers = long lines.
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Scott Richards
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Welcome to the dark side, John.
LOL. That was good for another smile.
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Brian Talley
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Just got a call from my daughter....she went to the Moose Lodge where we vote and she said she was done in less than ten minutes. I'll be going during my lunch break.
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Scott Richards
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so I had to pass a bunch of signs and last minute persuaders just to get through the front doors!
I knew something was missing! This morning there wasn't a single person set up at a table trying to sway votes one way or the other. Maybe it was too early? I don't recall ever seeing that before.
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Mark McKay
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QUOTE:
I voted for Obama, first time I have
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Curious as to why you voted for Obama, JB?
Edited by Mark McKay on 04 November 2008 at 10:46am
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Brian Talley
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Old people voting + old poll workers = long lines.
Yeah. Bless them for their public service, but I think most of the poll workers here worked the polls during the Taft administration.
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Michael Roberts
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Old people voting + old poll workers = long lines.
Yeah. Bless them for their public service, but I think most of the
poll workers here worked the polls during the Taft administration.\ --- That's usually the case, but this time most of the poll workers at my station were young and cute. And of course, this time I just chose to roll out of bed and head out to vote, waiting to shower and dress properly after I was done. I have voted at the same polling station for the last 8 years, and I've never had to wait until today. Took an hour to get through the line.
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Andrew Hess
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Voted weeks ago.
I've been "absentee" for years, because it gives me no excuse to not vote so I vote in even the minor "one issue" balloting.
But up until I went to voting by mail, I never had to wait more than 5 minutes to vote, even during the busiest of times and no matter which area of Seattle I have voted. Is that because Washington isn't a battleground state for these national elections?
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Mark McKay
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Voted in my new town. It took me longer to register than it did to wait in line and vote! It was busy, but there were a lot of rooms with a lot of voting boots, so it went pretty smooth. Maybe 5 - 10 minutes of waiting in line.
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Vinny Valenti
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JB wrote:
| My vote vanishes into
the Electoral pool, and once again the idea of One Man, One Vote is
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True. Seems to take away some of the responsibility, too. I voted McCain though I have full knowledge that there's practically no way he'd ever win in New York State (unless the Bradley effect is humongous here, which I doubt). So, if Obama wins, (which is likely), and things take a turn for the worse, I could say that I tried at least, and it's my state's "fault". If McCain wins and things get worse, I could say that my vote didn't go towards making him win, anyway. If things get better under either candidate...well, I guess I didn't "help" either way.....
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 04 November 2008 at 11:39am
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Al Cook
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And yet so many people think there's nothing wrong with your electoral
system...
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Vinny Valenti
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Yeah....really it's just the citizens of swing states that really get to feel like they play an important role in the political process.
Mind you, I have no love for either candidate. My vote was more of a "protest" against the Obama hive mentality, plus his relative inexperience.
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