Due to a number of circumstances resulting in me not being able to submit my registration form in time, I won't be able to vote. In retrospect, I probably should have just voted absentee and illegally in Wisconsin instead of trying to vote in California.

This'll be the first time I haven't voted in an election since I was eligible. I'm more pissed about not being able to vote on the ridiculous referendums than for the presidential candidate, actually. I'm guessing that the Bay Area will be owned by Obama anyway.

Just voted for Obama on my way to work this morning.

The touch screen machines were present even in my tiny little town of less than 5,000 people. And our odious law requiring government issued picture ID to vote was enforced for the first time today.

The number of Democratic Forms you fill out to vote was dwarfed by Republican ones in my precinct, but I am not surprised as my county has always gone Republican since Truman. They even voted against Georgia boy Jimmy Carter.

I have obama'd. It was all paper at my polling station. Nothing was plugged in except the radio.

It's about four deep on Broadway. It's two and half hours before the parade is supposed to start.

I'm independent in NY and no open primaries here. (I was so disgusted with the Democrats when I moved here, I registered as an independent for the first time in my life.)

Ty Webb wrote:I'm independent in NY and no open primaries here. (I was so disgusted with the Democrats when I moved here, I registered as an independent for the first time in my life.)

Would you cut your dick off if you moved to a town full of nuns?

Robert G wrote:

Since it wasn't a Diebold, in theory it should have.

Just a headsup...Diebold changed its name last year to Premier Election Solutions Inc (PESI). I'm not sure if their new vote stealing machines will be labeled as such or not.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/0 ... -chan.html

In the meantime, if Diebold are so unreliable with something as simple as a voting machine... Why the fuck do we have a lot of their shit at the banks

I think its because their voting machines are intentionally designed to be easily manipulated. Their bank machines probably aren't.

That "having to be registered with a party" thing annoys the piss out of me. I hate states that do that. Also, if you're independent, why can't you just say, "in this primary, I'm voting as a _______?" If it's that big of a deal that you vote a party ticket, you should be able to choose one.

Really, though, one should be able to vote for whoever he or she wants to run for office, from ANY party. You shouldn't have to register as anything to exercise your right to choose a candidate.

Stupid fucking country...

vockins wrote:

Ty Webb wrote:I'm independent in NY and no open primaries here. (I was so disgusted with the Democrats when I moved here, I registered as an independent for the first time in my life.)

Would you cut your dick off if you moved to a town full of nuns?

Are they fat?


Sorry, channeled Marsup there for a second.

But seriously, I had had it with the Dems at that point. I wanted nothing to do with their party machinery. I admit, it'd be nice to give Obama a vote today, but I'd honestly forgotten I'd registered independent (I'd been a Dem for so long) until yesterday. I had to check my voter card to be sure.

Voted for Obama on the way to work, as did my wife.