Vote: Bring ID and expect other surprises

[404Error]

Originally Posted by tw

...If poll problems are going to happen, they will happen in this election. We may be voting as to whether we go to nuclear war. Some people will do anything to protect the warrior president. Expect the worst when ideology is more important than other voters. Probably not, but it could get that adversarial. Expect the worst.

Hummm....looks like Bush got the nod. I don't see anything different around here. TW, see any mushroom clouds on the horizon where you are?

[FloridaDragon]

Originally Posted by 404Error

Small world FD, I was born and raised in Manchester.

Wow...that is a coincidence. Actually liked it there a lot. We had a very nice private yard just behind Highland Market off I-384 near the Bolton line. Too crowded down here in FL.

TW, what is the fun of having nuclear weapons if we can't elect a president who will actually use them? (that is meant as a joke for those who might try to take it seriously).

Wonderful that we have a democratic system...where half the people in the country can be totally PISSED off as a result of any election.

FD

[BrianR]

I had no line at 12:00 when I voted. I was the only voter there. Of course, when the Registrar told me my polling place was to be Rich (unpronounceable)'s Garage, he wasn't kidding. It was not an automotive repair facility, as you might imagine...it was the garage of a private residence. Took me twenty minutes to locate way out in the woods with NO sign on the main road. I finally noticed the "Welcome to Forest Hills" sign behind some bushes and followed the election signs. Sheesh.

I also drove FOUR HOURS to get there, spend an hour in town rooting through a junkyard for some needed parts, and then drove 3.5 hours back to arrive for class at PRECISELY 6:30 pm, when roll was being taken. One more minute and I'd have broken my perfect attendance record. That was close!

Anyway, now it's the day after, the world has not ended that I've noticed. And no one that was threatening to rescind their citizenship has done so, despite my urging. Life really DOES go on.

I just wish the election hadn't been so close. I would have preferred a more lopsided result. But I don't see any of my feared lawsuits or major challenges materializing, so maybe I'm being an Old Maid about that. Sometimes I worry too much. I hope.

Brian

[FloridaDragon]

Originally Posted by BrianR

Sometimes I worry too much.

Me too...I was worried that some of Osama's buds would take this opportunity to interfere with our elections since a fundamental part of what is being done in Iraq and Afghanistan are the holding of free elections.

Would have only taken a couple of small attacks on just a couple out of the thousands of polling places to completely stop the whole election. We would have been voting again in 6 months behind a wall of national guard troops.

Only think I can think of why they didn't is that they hate Bush enough to want him out and they had a pretty good chance of that happening and no way to determine the outcome until today...too late.