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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 4, 2008 8:06:25 GMT -5
Quite simply, who will you - or who did you - vote for in this Presidential Election?
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Post by Jason Giambi on Nov 4, 2008 8:20:08 GMT -5
are those Palins notes on her palm?
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 8:31:55 GMT -5
This may come as a shock, but I voted for McCain. At least when this country becomes the USSA on January 20, I know it's not my fault.
There will be a big turnout today. I got there at 6:28 am, and didn't actually vote until 7:11am.
If the line is like that so early, imagine what it will be like after work.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 4, 2008 8:54:35 GMT -5
Lines in the city are all screwed up. We passed more than one school here on the Island, and the crowds were normal fare. Everyone is going to vote, but its not as clogged, and set up much better.
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Post by jwmcc on Nov 4, 2008 8:56:19 GMT -5
I'm glad I went to the poll in the Bronx at 6:45am, though the fact that they weren't even close to being set up at all is a bad sign of things to come later in the day. Jw
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Post by crazilyz on Nov 4, 2008 8:57:47 GMT -5
I was expecting a mob scene at the polling place in my area. The parking lot was full and there was a long line for one district (3 districts vote at this location) but I didn't have a wait for mine.
Spent more time looking for parking than I did voting.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 9:08:19 GMT -5
I felt that they were pretty organized given the chaos, but this was a different polling place than years past. I wonder if they cut polling places which made it more hectic. I was unfortunate in that once I got IN the line, there was a disproportional amount in my district there to vote. This definitely was the longest it ever took.
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Post by jwmcc on Nov 4, 2008 9:09:58 GMT -5
The problem in NYC is that they registered over 500,000 new voters but made no effort to add staff or to streamline the process, so there will be places where folks will be in line for 2+ hours. Jw
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 9:28:26 GMT -5
I wonder how many of those voters are actually alive.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 4, 2008 9:32:35 GMT -5
I was flabbergasted to watch a lot of these early voting idiots this week, some standing on line for FOUR HOURS.
First, I have a question. Whats with all this early voting anyway? Election day is November 4th. We knew this for years. Free up the time, and go vote. If you are not itinerant, cut this early vote crap. Why is a third of the country voting early? What the fuck is going on?
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 9:34:57 GMT -5
Early voting makes it easier for democrats to steal the elections.
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Post by 9 on Nov 4, 2008 9:48:41 GMT -5
That worked really well when Al Gore got bent over and fucked with no Vasoline.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 9:50:13 GMT -5
It wasn't due to lack of effort. Where voter fraud failed, he tried to steal it in the Supreme Court.
It worked VERY well for Mayor Dinkins.
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Post by whalerfan on Nov 4, 2008 9:50:34 GMT -5
When I get out of work at 4:30 p.m. today, I will go vote for Senator John McCain. I'm am expecting the worse to come out of this election, but hopefully like the Giants, we will have a thrilling, miracle finish in the end.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Nov 4, 2008 11:12:29 GMT -5
I just got back (in NJ)..I signed up and strolled right into the booth no waiting at all whatsoever...In fact there was only one other person there voting......
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 4, 2008 11:20:37 GMT -5
My Mom went just after 9, at the same place i am heading to after work, and walked in and out. No wait at all. I think its more to the fact that they have a great setup in the town, with seperate tables for reasonable groupings of people.
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Post by crazilyz on Nov 4, 2008 11:35:38 GMT -5
First, I have a question. Whats with all this early voting anyway? Election day is November 4th. We knew this for years. Free up the time, and go vote. If you are not itinerant, cut this early vote crap. Why is a third of the country voting early? What the fuck is going on? I didn't know that "early voting" existed until this year. My mom is on a cruise this week (I was supposed to go with her but my doctor didn't give me clearance to go) and we spoke about getting absentee ballots. After I got mine in the mail, she told me that she was participating in the early voting thing (she lives in Florida) and she took care of that last Tuesday before she flew up to NY. Turns out early voting exists in NY, I assume by county, but there is no way in frigging hell you will catch me going to Yaphank.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 4, 2008 11:59:36 GMT -5
Honestly, I think they need to pare down these absentee voters. People need to plan vacations around Election Day if they want to vote.
The fact that over a third of eligible voters have already voted in Georgia before today to me is a travesty. Why bother having Election Day? We mise as well just vote online.
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Post by crazilyz on Nov 4, 2008 12:08:32 GMT -5
Honestly, I think they need to pare down these absentee voters. People need to plan vacations around Election Day if they want to vote. Easier said than done. The ones that are on vacation aren't the only ones that procure absentee ballots. There are also the ones that can't make it to the polls due to illness or are away at school or military duty. I was surprised to learn that certain people in jail can vote via absentee ballot.
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Post by massyanksfan on Nov 4, 2008 12:17:00 GMT -5
When I dropped my wife off at work, there was a line out the door. (She is a teacher...) By 8AM the line was double that. It has since been cut down quite a bit. What annos me about the voting process in my city is that the way that districts are set up, I have to vote at a middle school about 5 minutes away from my house, when there is another school, the one that my wife teaches at no less, two streets away from us. (Not to mention that my daughter can't go to that school due to the fact that the School district line is drawn on out street, and she has to go to a school about a 10 minute drive away.)
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Post by Chris on Nov 4, 2008 12:28:11 GMT -5
LOVE IT .... LOVE IT!
Republicans complaining about early/absentee voting. Republicans complaining about ANYTHING that makes registering and voting (whether it be automatic registration with DMV fees, online registration/voting, etc...) easier for the public at large.
HAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA
Look, everyone knows that historical data PROVES that low-voter turnout always benefits the Republicans. You guys are pretty transparent here.
Ohhhh GOD FORBID, Americans be given alternative voting methods in order to accommodate everyone's schedule...can't have that!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 12:32:29 GMT -5
Republicans will complain when there are situations of 5000 new registrations, and 2000 of them being illegal.
Democrats will do anything to get as many votes as possible--even if they are not legal. Mickey Mouse has voted for Obama today--several times.
We have something in this country called ELECTION DAY. It's not complicated. It has worked for 230 years. If someone can't vote on that day, fuck them.
But hey, might as well vote twice if you're a democrat.
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Post by Chris on Nov 4, 2008 12:34:08 GMT -5
Uhhh, Absentee votes, votes by mail, are not a new phenomenon. We also have something in this country called busy schedules.
We've had 'em for a long time.
You just want low voter turnout. The movement is toward....get this...I know it's a novel concept....ENCOURAGING participation in elections. Deal with it.
Youre not mad about the perception of illegal votes....youre mad because higher voter turnout means more minority, middle-lower class votes = doom for conservative candidates. Illegal Voting is another knee-jerk reaction that really boils down to a conservative desire that upper-middle-to-upper-class white people determine the outcome of the election.
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Post by massyanksfan on Nov 4, 2008 12:34:39 GMT -5
No, I am complaining about orginizations like ACORN, who register hundreds and thousands of people who have NO IDEA who the current president is. They also tend to, while not proven completly, register the dead. Obama may win this election based on the fact that there are groups out there that send buses into ghettos to register people to vote who didn't even know that there was an election this year.
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Post by Chris on Nov 4, 2008 12:39:31 GMT -5
Right, so if Obama wins this election by hundreds and hundreds of thousands of votes, it will be due to that many dead/illegal/fictitious fraudulent votes. HAAAAAAAA!! And as usual, any and all voter fraud takes place at the hands of liberals, and every single conservative vote down to a man is legit. Allen Raymond....anyone....ANYONE....Bueller...Bueller?
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 12:44:12 GMT -5
Well, there probably are hundreds of thousands of illegal votes today, and his campaigned is surrounded with ties to ACORN, who is responsible for most of these illegal votes, but hey, let's ignore that.
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Post by Chris on Nov 4, 2008 12:48:28 GMT -5
"Well, there probably are hundreds of thousands of illegal votes today"Sometimes the things you say here, purely out of some giddy sense of being devil's advocate, are so outlandish that I take comfort in knowing that even you must realize it. HUNDREDS of thousands??
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 12:55:34 GMT -5
Given that there is no way to check ID, and any attempts to do that are thwarted by democrats, and given the sheer volume of damage ACORN has done, and given past history of voter fraud, it's hardly an outlandish claim.
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Post by Chris on Nov 4, 2008 12:57:17 GMT -5
Obama is only in this race because of geography!!!! ;D
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 4, 2008 12:57:55 GMT -5
No. He's only in this race because of race.
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