I Voted
 

I know I said I wasn't going to bother, but early voting began yesterday, and Mr. Clod just happened to stay home sick from work today. So while the kids were sleeping, I was able to skip over to the community center a few blocks away and get it done.

Does that make me the very first Dwellar to do my civic duty?

Merc voted some time ago...1998, I think.

:)

I mailed in my ballot a week ago. :-)

I mailed mine yesterday.

I voted a week and a half ago on a machine in the registration office. (Which means mine gets counted with the rest of them, not just if there is a tie.)

If enough of us have already voted, can we stop talking about election year politics?

Don't you watch tv glatt? The elections been over for weeks.

what, you all only voted once? complete slackers, i tell you. ACORN would be appalled.

vote early and often.

My husband says that every election day when we're on our way to vote.

He thinks it's funny.

I am probably being a bit thick here. I don't understand the mechanisms of American elections, but what votes are only counted in the event of a tie? Surely, either you've cast the vote or you havent?

You mean it's not?:eek:

That's why you are so adorable!

You guys have reached a post count climax.

Well, it was funny the first time he said it..and the second time I smiled...but then it just became part of the routine. :)

Friggin foot so selfish.

huh? waht's a post count climax?

I need to look at the local races before I can vote.

I voted this afternoon at the library. :)

I just put the postage on our ballots and hubby will stick 'em in the mail tomorrow. Yay, me. :D

Some votes (like mailed-in absentee votes) are more of a pain in the ass to count than others, because you have to open envelopes, run them through a machine by hand, etc. So if on election night, a candidate is ahead by, say, 10,000 votes, and there are only 2,000 absentee ballots, then they don't bother counting them because mathematically it won't matter even if every single one of them is for the underdog.

Every vote is counted 'round here, and I imagine round where you are too Clod. A precinct doesn't know what the outcome is.

Oh yes, I just did early voting, not absentee voting, and it was on the same electronic machines that will be used in my precinct on election day. But the mail-in ones go straight to the state office, don't they?

The Presidential election was won weeks ago, but the ballot issues, judges, local politicians, and congressional candidates are still up for a vote.

BTW my hubby just informed me of something mildly interesting. He's a mail carrier. He just found out today that if you mail in an absentee ballot without putting any postage on it, they will deliver it anyway. Rationale is that the USPS doesn't want to be accused of interfering with the election. Sheesh.

Meanwhile, from AFP via the ABC:

:lol: Y'awl Americans are funny!

I heard that they'd run into some technical problems with some of the new machines? Something on the radio news yesterday (I think) Can't remember where this was though. I caught the last little bit of an interview with some electiony official type, before it went back to the anchor.

Thanks for the explanation btw, though I now realise I did know but had forgotten *grins* 'cause i've had this same conversation in another thread. Thinking about it, we do have an equivalent that may not be counted initially, but I'd have to check. We have something called 'proxy votes' which are a very small number of the ballots. Most postal votes are just that, postal votes, and they are opened separately and checked as they come in each day under very similar conditions to the main count. They only count the total votes cast at that stage. They get added to the ordinary ballot papers on the day of the count. Basically,we (candidates and agents) stand about in a big hall with tables, two tellers per table, and the officials bring over box at a time of ballots. The final box that gets poured (literally) onto the table is the postal votes box.

You and Dana came to double zeros together. 4700 and 7500.

Y'know, given that half the time I've been a dwellar, I've been studying for a degree, that's a ludicrous postcount to have built up...

We're edubacaitin you.

I sent in my absentee ballot Monday!

Hey, we got stuff to do man. Got to get that latte from Starbuck. Voting, pffffffftttt, childs play. :D

We even got us some drive through, or should that be thru, wedding chapels and funeral parlors. ;)

We also have drive threw's.

I like the drive thru beer distributors... although I'd prefer to get beer at the grocery store like every other friggin' state... stupid PA...

I voted this weekend.

We should have a poll to see who won.

County office here in Florida, and I imagine where you are as well.

And every one of 'em gets counted.