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6th November 2007 07:09 PM
pdog who voted today...?
I haven't yet, and if i don't, it would be the first time since 1992, and i have a good excuse for that.
6th November 2007 07:14 PM
mojoman why do you hate america?
6th November 2007 07:15 PM
Dan I thought that wasn't until next year.
6th November 2007 07:18 PM
robpop I did. Not much on the ballot. Never missed an election since I became old enough to vote.
[Edited by robpop]
6th November 2007 07:20 PM
LadyJane I rarely miss an election, because I feel that if I do not vote I have NO RIGHT to complain.
That said.
The gusty wind and wet snow in Buffalo, coupled with the fact that both candidates for County Executive are idiots, I opted to head directly to the grocery store and not the polling station.

LJ.
6th November 2007 07:22 PM
robpop The wind and the snow has made its way down here. I went after work around 2 PM and I was only the 89th voter in my precinct. Bad weather and no big races.
[Edited by robpop]
6th November 2007 07:29 PM
LadyJane
quote:
robpop wrote:
The wind and the snow has made its way down here.



More than happy to share.
Can we blame this on CSM too?

LJ.
6th November 2007 07:34 PM
Mel Belli I did. Statehouse Dems were running unopposed, so I wrote in Virginia resident Robert Duvall.
6th November 2007 07:35 PM
robpop
quote:
LadyJane wrote:


More than happy to share.
Can we blame this on CSM too?

LJ.



Thanks for nothing LJ!!!!

Hell, it was overdue.
6th November 2007 07:38 PM
LadyJane
quote:
robpop wrote:


Thanks for nothing LJ!!!!

Hell, it was overdue.



HeHeHe
Overdue here too.
Dammit. I'm freezing.

LJ.
6th November 2007 07:43 PM
mrhipfl It's getting cold here, too.


68 degrees in the shade!!! brrrr
6th November 2007 08:04 PM
andrews27 Instead of pushing for Stones vault releases, we ought to be pushing for Election Week, not Election Day, in the USA. We are too large a population and too hard-working and distracted to vote for national offices in one day. The pols know this, and they count on low turnout to secure election results quickly, without a majority heard from. This is why two presidential elections in a row were stolen - partly because the custom is for one candidate to concede gracefully by end-of-day; and partly because criminals have to falsify fewer votes to win.

Also, if federal and state taxation is compulsory, then so should be voting - in an expanded election week with streamlined voting procedures. How many of you, like me, have dropped off the end of long voting lines by 7:30 p.m. after a full workday?

Write your congressmen and senators, and you won't have to hate America. Write endlessly, because *they don't want this.*

This is what you want:
*Election Week, not Election Day
*Voting required for citizenship so long as taxation is required.


[Edited by andrews27]
6th November 2007 08:19 PM
pdog
quote:
andrews27 wrote:
Instead of pushing for Stones vault releases, we ought to be pushing for Election Week, not Election Day, in the USA. We are too large a population and too hard-working and distracted to vote for national offices in one day. The pols know this, and they count on low turnout to secure election results quickly, without a majority heard from. This is why two presidential elections in a row were stolen - partly because the custom is for one candidate to concede gracefully by end-of-day; and partly because criminals have to falsify fewer votes to win.

Also, if federal and state taxation is compulsory, then so should be voting - in an expanded election week with streamlined voting procedures. How many of you, like me, have dropped off the end of long voting lines by 7:30 p.m. after a full workday?

Write your congressmen and senators, and you won't have to hate America. Write endlessly, because *they don't want this.*

This is what you want:
*Election Week, not Election Day
*Voting required for citizenship so long as taxation is required.


[Edited by andrews27]



I agree with what you say, the maerican middle class is enslaved, overworked, over taxed and gets very little vacation time comapred to the rest of the western world. Like you said, the politicians made it this way to ensure they keep power. Add now that everyone is scared of imminent attacks and distracted by phones and what not... we're doomed. My polling station is at about 90 out of almost a thousand eligible. i'm walking down there now.
6th November 2007 08:25 PM
Mel Belli
quote:
andrews27 wrote:
Instead of pushing for Stones vault releases, we ought to be pushing for Election Week, not Election Day, in the USA. We are too large a population and too hard-working and distracted to vote for national offices in one day. The pols know this, and they count on low turnout to secure election results quickly, without a majority heard from. This is why two presidential elections in a row were stolen - partly because the custom is for one candidate to concede gracefully by end-of-day; and partly because criminals have to falsify fewer votes to win.

Also, if federal and state taxation is compulsory, then so should be voting - in an expanded election week with streamlined voting procedures. How many of you, like me, have dropped off the end of long voting lines by 7:30 p.m. after a full workday?

Write your congressmen and senators, and you won't have to hate America. Write endlessly, because *they don't want this.*

This is what you want:
*Election Week, not Election Day
*Voting required for citizenship so long as taxation is required.


[Edited by andrews27]



Last presidential election had huge turnout.
6th November 2007 08:25 PM
the good
quote:
pdog wrote:


I agree with what you say, the maerican middle class is enslaved, overworked, over taxed and gets very little vacation time comapred to the rest of the western world. Like you said, the politicians made it this way to ensure they keep power. Add now that everyone is scared of imminent attacks and distracted by phones and what not... we're doomed. My polling station is at about 90 out of almost a thousand eligible. i'm walking down there now.



Doomed? Doomed you say? No way dawg. Once all the baby boomers die we will have another era of american greatness. We'll kick it all off by bombing Germany and Japan back into submission.
6th November 2007 08:38 PM
TomL Fuck em all P. No I did not.
6th November 2007 08:44 PM
Ten Thousand Motels All we had on the ballot was bond issues.
Buy now, pay later...it's the American Way.
6th November 2007 08:48 PM
Sioux Yep. I always vote. Missed one local election in the 70's,
as I was really sick. But it's my right and privilege and
I excercise it...
6th November 2007 08:59 PM
pdog I just voted for Grasshopper for mayor, I actually know the guy, he's an old jewish hippie who drives a cab. Newsom is basically going unnopposed and will win no doubt.
Smallest ballot i've seen in sometime, no state stuff, just city stuff... I hope the measure to make the mayor attend at least on sup. meeting a month passes, and the funds to cont. to improve the libraries. Somebody, alot of people, died so I could go do this, it took my five minutes to walk down to the firehouse.
We do have week long polling in SF, at City Hall. Not sure if other cities do this, they should, it makes sense. 122 was the number when i got there... pretty sad.
6th November 2007 09:07 PM
robpop I am a registered Dem, but I only voted for one in this election (my friend who is running for town council). All the rest were Republicans and third party canidates. Just my way of saying to the Democrats in power in PA, that they have not done shit. Not that the others will do any better. I'm just letting them know they let me down. Besides voting "straight" for one party is bullshit. Only the brainwashed would do so.
6th November 2007 09:08 PM
Mel Belli I don't know about you, but keeping polls open for a week doesn't strike me as a very good idea for reducing voter fraud.
6th November 2007 09:15 PM
pdog
quote:
Mel Belli wrote:
I don't know about you, but keeping polls open for a week doesn't strike me as a very good idea for reducing voter fraud.



it works here...
6th November 2007 09:17 PM
tumbled I voted today at 8 am bright and early, I fended off
the funnel of republican canvassers keeping my head down, rounded the corner in the pouring rain found the room which was unmarked and voted straight democrat for everything except for the 4 seats without competition in which I wrote in: "Feline Friendly" ha. that'll teach em we have a supervisor and district attorney here that must be 89 years old it BITES. meawhile we have herds of homeless people and homeless kitties living at the train station and a bunch of unplanned suburban sprawl developments run amuk fuckers

[Edited by tumbled]
6th November 2007 09:23 PM
robpop Just remember things are not always as they appear to be. I was at this show when it was performed. I was caught up in the moment, I thought it sounded great. One of the best things I had ever heard. But listening to it now, its mediocre at best.

I hope you get my point.



7th November 2007 09:54 AM
Nasty Habits Of course I did. City council elections ain't nothin to fuck with.

7th November 2007 10:03 AM
GotToRollMe No. I spent the entire day at the vet's. Then I came home and took a 13-hour nap.
7th November 2007 10:44 AM
Blowey
quote:
Nasty Habits wrote:
Of course I did. City council elections ain't nothin to fuck with.





I would like to cuddle your colon.

Huh?

Blowey!!!!

7th November 2007 01:23 PM
monkey_man I wrote in Stephen Colbert for Mayor. Fuck Newsom.
7th November 2007 01:33 PM
WinslowStud i wrote in jamal lewis.
7th November 2007 01:47 PM
Blowey I walked in the voting booth and pooped out 76 Hamsters with machine gun-like precision.

Spirit of '76, my lil' Stonesicles!

I thank you for your time!

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Albert Brooks
James Caan
Nell Carter
Peter Coyote
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Larry David
Michael Douglas
Richard Dreyfuss
Bob Dylan
Richard Elfman
Harrison Ford
Bonnie Franklin


J.R.R. Blowklein!
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