Has Anybody Else Here Already Voted ??? - Turned Mine In Thursday (10/28)

[WillyT]

So... Is early and/or mail-in voting available to you in your area?

And... have you taken advantage of it?

Me... Yes and yes.

Bowen, Bera, Boxer, Brown, and Bong Hits, LOL!!!

Lots of "B's" with "D's" behind them.

:D

:hi:

:kick:

[AsahinaKimi]

1. I have!!

Yay! Turned it in over a week ago. Should have made this a poll.. more fun.

[WillyT]

3. Woo Hoo !!!

:woohoo:

Great to hear!

How ya doin?

:hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

22. Doing great...well

ASK me after the World Series :P :hi: How about you?

[WillyT]

26. Doin Ok... As For The Series...

At least we now know it's coming back to S.F.

If we're gonna win it, I'm glad it will be in our park.

:scared:

:hi:

[robdogbucky]

39. Huh?

WillyT; I voted Friday and convinced my wife to do the same thing. First time we did absentee ballots. I was all urgent on her to get home, get her ballot signed, which did not arrive until Friday's mail, then I hurried her to fill it out, sign it, then I took them to the P.O., as the ballot had the message emblazoned on it to "MAIL BY FRIDAY BEFORE ELECTION."

Then we got a lovely robo call left by Jerry Brown's wife urging us to vote and the last thing her message stated was that absentee ballots could be dropped off in person at the polls on election day as well.

Willy, I was wondering about:


"At least we now know it's coming back to S.F.

If we're gonna win it, I'm glad it will be in our park."

If the Gigantes win the next two, which are also in Texas, they win, and the series does not return to SF, no?

Just sayin.

I'm an A's fan, so I have no skin in the game, but as a matter of regional pride, I sure hope they don't shit the bed in the WS like they have the last two times they appeared in it. Maybe this once the Giants can win a WS. If they did, it would be their first since moving to Cal and the first since 1954. The A's have won five WS championships just since they moved to Cal in 1968. At least the Gigantes have figured out that it is all mostly about pitching, pitching, pitching. Not a Mardi Gras Head with Raisinettes as a freak show for the masses. Four Championships, no Splash Hits.



Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[WillyT]

43. God My Math Has Been Sucking Lately... You Are Correct...

We'd have to lose one more to Texas to bring it back. Not sure I want to risk it either.

Maybe it's all the polling crap during election time that makes the math part of my brain shut down, LOL?

:shrug:

And thanks for voting!!!

:D

:hi:

:banghead:

:crazy:

[robdogbucky]

48. But the real question is

Can the Gigantes defeat the curse of Bonds?

We shall see, and I sincerely do wish them all the luck in the world to do it.



What the A's lack in money, they make up for in heart.
What the Yankees lack in heart cannot be bought.




rdb

[Maeve]

Yes and yes

But then, I'm a poll worker so I almost always vote absentee.

[still_one]

2. I voted the same way you did, and that is what the DNC should have been encouraging, to vote early

[Irishonly]

4. Three voters here

DH and DD voted also. :dem:

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #2 for, talk to my avatar & I never use avatars or special features n/t

[ananda]

6. Yes. All for D's and Green's.

nt

[mstinamotorcity]

7. Done

Where's are exit polls?????

[MineralMan]

8. Tuesday. I always vote on Election Day. That way, I get to

have a look at the polling place and see if everything is going properly there and to see some of my neighbors in the precinct there at the same time. I will have talked to many of them in the past couple of months. For me, early voting takes away from the community acting on one day to elect its leaders and set policies, if there are referenda on the ballot. Anything that separates the voter from the experience of seeing his or her neighbors in the polling place is, for me, a negative trend.

I realize that early voting is popular with many people. I just don't like the lack of community action.

[oswaldactedalone]

9. Regarding community action

I've voted early and will be driving voters to the polls on Tuesday. During any down time, I'll have voter guides with me, and plan to visit every convenience store, hair salon, and barber shop in the black community to encourage voting.

I call myself a one man ACORN group. Consider doing it yourself. In the black community, just say you're from the Democratic Party and you have voter guides and you make friends fast.

[MineralMan]

15. Good deal! That should help!

[LWolf]

16. There are no polling places in my state.

Just drop-off boxes for those who wait until the last minute to vote. The rest of us mail ours in. I've done both; mailed it in with plenty of time to spare, and dropped it off because I waited until a mailed ballot wouldn't arrive in time.

I mailed by ballot in two weeks ago. The only real community action I've seen are the many robocalls picked up by my answering machine and the flood of republican signs everywhere. I did see ONE sign for one Democrat.

[MineralMan]

28. OK. Since you don't say what state you live in, which is fine,

I wouldn't have any way to know that. Personally, I think there is more opportunity for fraud in states that don't do election day voting, but that's just me. Every state has its own methods. Here in Minnesota, it's going to the polls. We have no early voting, although you can cast an absentee ballot if you have a reason to.

[LWolf]

33. I live in Oregon. nt

[MineralMan]

36. Ah, that's right. They went to that method of voting some time

ago, as I remember. Well, if there aren't polling places, you sure can't go to them on Tuesday, then. I wouldn't like that, personally. I really enjoy voting at my precinct's polling place. I try to go during a busy time, so I can see how things are going.

[LWolf]

54. Then again, I never have to worry about

getting to work late, or having to leave early, to get to a polling place. Or about having some kind of malfunction of a machine at my polling place, or finding my name not on the list, or finding parking, or standing in line waiting to cast my ballot. I fill out the ballot when it's convenient for me. A stress-free experience.

[HipChick]

58. I'm going in late to work and voting on election day

Mainly because it burns my Republican bosses butt no end..

[MineralMan]

60. Nice! I work for myself, at home, so my wife and I usually go at

about coffee break time or around the lunch hour. She's self-employed too. Two writers in the same house.

[ThatsMyBarack]

10. I voted early two weeks ago at Village Hall....

So I won't have to deal with the Republican tool of an election judge at my "polling place" on Election Day!

[trackfan]

11. I mailed it in several days ago. n/t

[lunatica]

12. I have

Voted for Brown, Boxer, Barbara Lee, for prop 19 and against prop 23.

[WillyT]

14. I Voted Against 23 As Well !!!

:yourock:

:hi:

[LWolf]

13. I voted 2 weeks ago.

I like getting my ballot in the mail with plenty of time to mark it and mail it before election day.

I love Oregon's vote by mail system.

[spooky3]

17. me too!

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Why yes I have!

Wyden, Kitzhaber, DeFazio, expanding the medical marijuana law, etc....

[felix_numinous]

19. I voted too

:)

[Ernesto]

20. You bet Willy!

As you know, It's a "Wilton" thing.

[WillyT]

21. Wassup Neighbor ???

:bounce::hi::bounce:

:kick:

[Ernesto]

64. I'm about to ease on down to the Wilton store to get some Ball Park hot dogs & buns to enjoy

the World Series right here in my own home.
Cheers!

[babsbunny]

23. yes, absentee

[SargeUNN]

24. Yeah I voted last week

I voted by mail but actually turned my ballot in to the elections office to avoid the mail screwing up and not getting my ballot in. I don't trust the post office in my area.

[WillyT]

27. Yeah I Do Mail-In Too, But Turn It In Myself...

:hi:

[City Lights]

25. I'm voting Tuesday, but my husband and newly-registered 18-y-o voted by mail.

:hi:

[nashville_brook]

29. yesterday. there was a LONG line!! maybe an hour wait.

[WillyT]

31. Wow... That's Good News... Right ???

I don't mean having to wait, I mean as far as voter participation/turn-out.

:shrug:

:hi:

[nashville_brook]

63. i think so -- i was REALLY surprised. and, the line just got longer as the day wore on.

[DemocracyInaction]

30. Yes..and then this guy showed up

I voted week or more ago (straight Dem).....Do this guy bangs on my door this morning handing out his fliers. I told him he really should have done this a couple weeks ago. Point: I think some of this last minute scramble stuff on our part should have started is scrambline like at least 2 weeks ago because of early voting.

[rocktivity]

32. Ordered my (NJ) ballot on last Monday, received it Thursday

mailed it out the next morning. And I have to admit it's really helped reduce my stress about the whole thing. While I'm not confident about the results, I can say that I'm optimistic.

:bounce:
rocktivity

[Happyhippychick]

34. Why yes, yes I did!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

35. Done!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

37. 35% returned here in OR, expecting just over 70% by election day..

4 of us had ours turned in by Monday, but there's one slacker in the house who hasn't.

all D's except Gram voted for Dudley :( I needed one o'them bong hits when I heard that!

I'm cautiously optimistic about Tuesday, and pretty much dreading the circus of recounts and lawsuits that will follow on Wednesday.
It's gonna be a nightmare..

[Warpy]

38. Early voting is a wonderful thing

I went on one of the first few days and it wasn't busy. Sniff.

I understand it's picked up a bit since then.

Ugly advertising has been fast and furious in this state, especially those CofC attack ads that have every race in the country against Nancy Pelosi.

Those dumbfucks just don't understand that voting with the Democratic majority is why we sent them there in the first place.

[wysingm]

40. I voted a week ago

Brown, Boxer, Harris and Lee

[WillyT]

46. Welcome To DU, wysingm !!!

:toast::bounce::toast:

Glad ta have ya aboard!!!

:hi:

[crazylikafox]

41. yep, straight Dem ticket

[Fly by night]

42. Yes. And for the first time in my life, I voted for the Green Party candidate for Governor in TN.

He is a personal friend of mine. And the TN DINOs ran a race-baiting, gays-hating, gun-fellating, clueless creationist cracker -- the son of a former DINO governor -- who I have nicknamed "Big Daddy Junior."

Predictions here are that BDJ will record the most humiliating loss of any D candidate since John Jay Hooker (a walking advertisement for stylish schizophrenia) ran wearing an Abe Lincoln costume and spending no money on his campaign back in 1998.

Unfortunately, we are primed to lose two (or maybe three) Congressional seats, mainly for two reasons. Our losing DINO candidates all ran as Attila the Hun Junior, and the Rethugs control our unverifiable voting machines.

It is a sad day in Mudville, TN (and everywhere else here.)

[Solly Mack]

44. Yep. Absentee ballot.

[Blue_In_AK]

45. I'm a traditionalist.

There's just something about going down to the UU church at the end of our street on election day, making small-talk with the poll workers, that just makes me feel good.


I should add that early voting is not always a good thing. I saw a comment posted at the Anchorage Daily News yesterday where someone said they had voted early for Lisa Murkowski and now really regret their vote and wish they had waited and voted for Scott McAdams. Especially in Alaska this year, the political landscape has changed from day to day, so it's been wise to wait until the end.

[Wounded Bear]

47. Yes and yes.....

Last week. I don't trust the pollsters, frankly. I'm looking for some "upsets."

[rollin74]

49. I voted about 2 weeks ago

cast my ballot for Reid and more importantly AGAINST nut job, teabagger, right wing freak Angle

I'm hoping for a good Democratic turnout on Tuesday to help keep that lunatic out of the senate.
:scared:

[Change has come]

53. I voted Friday in Carson City.

There were a surprising amount of young people and the place was packed. Here is hoping or a sane result. :toast:

[de novo]

50. I voted last week.

Straight ticket, for the Dems. Although I had to hold my breath to vote for my blue dog conservative congressman. i really can't stand him, but the opponent is even worse.

I did get to vote for several progressive judges, though.

[AnArmyVeteran]

51. I voted! Screw republican idiots!

[groundloop]

52. For the races w/ no Democrat I wrote in "None of the above"

I'm in one of the reddest counties in Georgia, so there were a handful of repugs who were unopposed. Now they've all got at least one vote against them.

[Celtic Raven]

55. Mailed it last Monday

:hi:

[GrantDem]

56. Yep...

Voted almost two weeks ago.

[OutNow]

57. Yes - early voting in Oregon by mail

Like the other folks in Oregon my wife and I voted by mail. The wacko running against DeFazio is scary, the basketball player Republican Dudley is running a stealth campaign for governor. We voted D of course. I lived in Texas for over 20 years and only saw one D congressional candidate ever win - Martin Frost. So it's wonderful living here in Oregon where the mayor and every other winning candidate is a good D. I plan to keep it that way.

[guitar man]

59. Yes

Early voted yesterday. As much as I dislike some of these bile dog so called "Democrats" here in Oklahoma, I held my nose and voted straight ticket. It helped not to look at the names on the ballot lol

[BlueIris]

61. Voted last Tuesday. nt

[NoPasaran]

62. Early voted a week and a half ago

Now if only I could be exempted from seeing the political attack ads on TV...

[RagAss]

65. Yes...last week in Florida ... Meek and Sink and every other Dem.