14th October 2008, 06:21 | #1 |
DRINK CHEERWINE
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,001,028
|
votering
so i think i'm gonna vote for the first time ever and i looked at a sample ballot and i don't know who anyone is except for the presidential candidates.
is there an awesome website that tells me about my local soil and water conservation district supervisors David Dowdy and David Thomas and all the other elected officials? or should/can i leave everything else blank and just vote for pres. (i am writing in Hondo) i would rather not do a straight party vote because fuck that also there is some early voter thingy starting oct. 16th. is it to be trusted? |
14th October 2008, 07:30 | #2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered User
I'm *this* close to silently protesting.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,462
|
Re: votering
Poke around on google and see if you can find a localish non-profit group that keeps track of such things. You might have trouble finding an objective source for something that local though.
Yes, you can.
Good. If you don't know the issues in a particular race, you shouldn't cast a vote for that race.
Yes. Vote early. Voting on election day is absolutely horrible. You will spend hours (yes, multiple hours) in line.
__________________
The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 07:45 | #3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
I don't know what's wrong with you people in the South. I've never had to wait longer than 5 minutes to vote here in NY. And that's with multiple districts voting at the same location. I've been voting since 1990. Ballots aren't that hard to figure out... So cornfusing!
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 07:50 | #4 |
Upon us all a little rain must fall.
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: U.S. of K.K.K.A
Posts: 5,502
|
Re: votering
never had to wait more than 5 or 10 minutes, evar. and that's in OHio where we am all dumb as fcuk and vote early and often.
|
14th October 2008, 07:53 | #5 |
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
Oh yeah, and we're still using voting machines made in 1972.
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
14th October 2008, 07:58 | #6 |
Upon us all a little rain must fall.
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: U.S. of K.K.K.A
Posts: 5,502
|
Re: votering
we use paper. you fill in the spot of your choice and feed it into a scanner.
simple and brilliant. none of that hanging chad or touch screen horse shit. |
14th October 2008, 08:00 | #7 |
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
I like the lever voting machines better.
Something about working with machinery just feels more legit than a computer scanner. New fangled technology (when it comes to voting) skeers me!
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
14th October 2008, 08:01 | #8 |
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
Oh, and we should do the purple finger shit too to stop those ACORN nuts from voting a hundred times, or busing homeless around to 1000 different polling locations.
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
14th October 2008, 08:05 | #9 |
Upon us all a little rain must fall.
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: U.S. of K.K.K.A
Posts: 5,502
|
Re: votering
that entire ACORN organization needs to be shut down. It's an embarrassment.
|
14th October 2008, 09:29 | #10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered User
I'm *this* close to silently protesting.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,462
|
Re: votering
I generally haven't since I've started doing the early voting thing. First time I voted I went on election day. That's when it took fucking forever.
__________________
The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 09:32 | #11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
That's the thing though. NY doesn't have early voting, and we seem to be able to do it quickly and efficiently... All with paper ledgers for signature and address verification. I just can't believe what's so difficult in other parts of the country.
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 09:47 | #12 |
Registered User
I'm *this* close to silently protesting.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,462
|
Re: votering
Hmmm. No clue then. Might be differences in number of people in districts, or turnout, or stupid people, or my experience could have just been a fluke.
__________________
The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. |
14th October 2008, 10:25 | #13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
Congressional districts are divided up by equal populations. Of course gerrymandering can make some people have to drive through a few districts just to get to their polling place, in their same district. My guess is stupid state election boards that must be fucking things up.
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 11:28 | #14 |
Registered User
I'm *this* close to silently protesting.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,462
|
Re: votering
Now that I think about it, that first time I went to vote Texas had just moved to an electronic voting system. That probably had a lot to do with it.
It's a particularly stupid machine that has a big wheel that you have to turn to select the candidate you want. No touch screen option. Ghey.
__________________
The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. |
14th October 2008, 11:34 | #15 |
Hellappotamus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 10,070
|
Re: votering
Hey look at Shroomy not being a retard again. DUDE you're growing up sooo fast.
Shorty if you look at local voting pamphlets beware - in Oregon they were horrible, the descriptions they'd write on issues were really fucked, and there's no guarantee of them being factual - they were basically press releases by each side of the issue, full of lies and bullshit. The suggestion to find an unbiased source is good - the voter pamphlet ideally would contain no-nonsense descriptions of issues and bios/ resumes of candidates, but instead even they are filled with lies and bullshit. And Shroomy is spot on with the "if you don't know the issue (candidates) then don't vote" comment. Spot fucking on. |
14th October 2008, 11:47 | #16 |
Registered User
I'm *this* close to silently protesting.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,462
|
Re: votering
I've come a long way from making tshirts.
__________________
The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. |
14th October 2008, 12:21 | #17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
Now THAT should be on a t-shirt!
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 13:51 | #18 |
DRINK CHEERWINE
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,001,028
|
Re: votering
now i have to do fucking homework just to vote for assholes i hate
this is why i never voted before |
14th October 2008, 14:55 | #19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Cheesus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,575
|
Re: votering
Or you could just vote Democrat across the board. That requires no thought at all.
__________________
CPE 1704 TKS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
14th October 2008, 15:00 | #20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Upon us all a little rain must fall.
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: U.S. of K.K.K.A
Posts: 5,502
|
Re: votering
that's why Obama is a shoe-in. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||