Vote as you please but please VOTE!!!

Aunt Bea

Aunt Bea

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It took a long time to give women the chance to vote. I'm not too sure they deserve it.

All the men I know would use a hammer to pound in those nails.

Hope she didn't shoot herself.
 
Didn't vote; don't shoot me! :) I don't know where to go to vote today. They never sent me the place to vote or an absentee ballot this time. I opt out this time!
 
Maybe this is a place to ask this question: aren't they supposed to assign you the polling-place that's closest to where you live?
I've "sat out" a few state/local elections (including today) and ended up voting absentee in some presidential elections because the place they assigned me is difficult to get to. And there are two places much closer. Doesn't make sense to me.
 
:lol:

We use a pencil to mark a paper ballot.

I can turn up at any polling station within my electorate on voting day, have my name crossed off the list and proceed to vote.
Or, if out of my electorate, I can vote absentee anywhere.

I can also vote early at a special polling place if I am unable to vote on voting day or I can apply for a postal vote if I am unable to make it to any polling station for any reason.

Voting day is always a Saturday.

This level of flexibility is a direct consequence of the fact that voting is mandatory.
Every effort must be made to assist people to cast their votes.
 
Warrigal said:
:lol:

We use a pencil to mark a paper ballot.

I can turn up at any polling station within my electorate on voting day, have my name crossed off the list and proceed to vote.
Or, if out of my electorate, I can vote absentee anywhere.

I can also vote early at a special polling place if I am unable to vote on voting day or I can apply for a postal vote if I am unable to make it to any polling station for any reason.

Voting day is always a Saturday.

This level of flexibility is a direct consequence of the fact that voting is mandatory.
Every effort must be made to assist people to cast their votes.
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That's how it is where I live, except that we always vote on a Tuesday and we use a paper ballot and ink to fill in an oval. The paper ballot is run through a counting machine and stored inside it. Nothing has Diebold stamped on it so we don't have them voting for us.

We don't have mandatory voting, but they've worked to make voting as easy as possible with a fairly long open vote at various locations around town. We now have to show I.D., a practice which will hopefully end when the current governor rides off into oblivion.
 
None of the county election activities touched this area:


  • One School District School Board member, one-year term
  • Three School Board members, four-year terms
  • Three Water District Board members, four-year terms
  • Three District Board with varying term lengths, two on four-year terms and one on a two-year term
 
JaniceM said:
They assign each registered voter to one polling place, but anyone can vote downtown. The latter is even farther away, and when I did go there years ago found they have very long lines.
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We have short lines and Democracy Sausages**

** Voting usually takes place in school auditoriums.
The local P & C association usually takes advantage for a fundraiser by holding a sausage sizzle.
Sometimes a cake stall.
 
Warrigal said:
We have short lines and Democracy Sausages**

** Voting usually takes place in school auditoriums.
The local P & C association usually takes advantage for a fundraiser by holding a sausage sizzle.
Sometimes a cake stall.
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I bet the sausage sizzle really packs in the voters! I'd go vote in person instead of by mail!

When I was a local officer with the United Steel Workers, onetime we lured the whole plant to attend an important meeting by providing beer and pizza. :cool:
 
I voted today. I don't think I have ever missed voting since I became of age to vote. Some elections went the way I wanted them to and many went the other way ,but I'll never stop voting.
 
Warrigal said:
We have short lines and Democracy Sausages**

** Voting usually takes place in school auditoriums.
The local P & C association usually takes advantage for a fundraiser by holding a sausage sizzle.
Sometimes a cake stall.
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Around here, voting is as chaotic and non-equal as everything else.
I've never seen any food, but in one election a few years ago the polling place I went to gave out "I Voted" stickers, but family members didn't get any at theirs.
 
It made me sad when I checked the morning paper and only 35% of the registered voters in my city came out to vote for our new mayor and others yesterday.

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
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