Oh lord. In Tennessee we hate income taxes so much that there was a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would prevent us from ever having one ever.
Oh hopelessly liberal friend who until recently lived in Kentucky posting articles on Facebook about how turnout is super high in Louisville, an upset could happen, you guys. I mean, sure, but... no.
Of course, she also got to meet Senator Professor Warren this week, soooo kind of jealous.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
My daughter grabbed a sticker off the table when she went with my wife. Then she told the old-dude poll-worker "I'm too young to vote, but I like stickers."
Something very enjoyable about actually going to a polling place and filling out the ballot, especially when it's cold outside. More eventful, and a greater feeling of accomplishment I think.
Was the 201st person according to the ballot machine, with a line of about fifteen ahead of me this morning. No harassment, and most of the people outside stopped trying to give me voter guides when I told them I had already filled out a sample ballot.
I'm glad North Carolina got rid of straight ticket voting, but it was certainly a chore to find real information on some of the minor races (Soil & Conservation?). I couldn't decide whether to vote for unopposed candidates until the very last minute, but went ahead and gave them a vote anyway. The most difficult vote was between an obvious incumbent for a major position that I despise, and their challenger who couldn't even bother to put up a website listing their views and had zero previous political experience. I voted for the challenger anyway, but I considered not voting in that race at all. Was surprisingly happy with the school board options.
Voted last week in NC. That amendment proposal was a weird issue. I ended up going against it because judges have too much power as it is. It was something that I could go either way on but it being an amendment means it'll be hard to squash later if it proves to be a poor idea.
Anyway that was the toughest decision on the ballot besides researching the 19 candidates for that one office.
My daughter grabbed a sticker off the table when she went with my wife. Then she told the old-dude poll-worker "I'm too young to vote, but I like stickers."
Something very enjoyable about actually going to a polling place and filling out the ballot, especially when it's cold outside. More eventful, and a greater feeling of accomplishment I think.
Was the 201st person according to the ballot machine, with a line of about fifteen ahead of me this morning. No harassment, and most of the people outside stopped trying to give me voter guides when I told them I had already filled out a sample ballot.
I'm glad North Carolina got rid of straight ticket voting, but it was certainly a chore to find real information on some of the minor races (Soil & Conservation?). I couldn't decide whether to vote for unopposed candidates until the very last minute, but went ahead and gave them a vote anyway. The most difficult vote was between an obvious incumbent for a major position that I despise, and their challenger who couldn't even bother to put up a website listing their views and had zero previous political experience. I voted for the challenger anyway, but I considered not voting in that race at all. Was surprisingly happy with the school board options.
Voted last week in NC. That amendment proposal was a weird issue. I ended up going against it because judges have too much power as it is. It was something that I could go either way on but it being an amendment means it'll be hard to squash later if it proves to be a poor idea.
Anyway that was the toughest decision on the ballot besides researching the 19 candidates for that one office.
I went against it as well, but see plenty of merit in the other side. I presume it will pass.
Voted this morning in NH. Got there shortly after 8 AM. Unfortunately, my wife had to bail on the line due to having to be at class at 9 AM, and she's probably going to have to reschedule meetings in the afternoon so she can come back and vote (8 AM - 7 PM poll hours are really stupid). There were about 25 people in line, and all of us had a last name starting between J-R. Anyone A-I or S-Z got to skip ahead to the front of the line. And of course, the person running the J-R binder was an 80+ year old who moved very slowly, and they really couldn't do anything to get more people through at once.
I'm curious how many people have had the opportunity to vote in both MA and NH in a Scott Brown Senate election. I moved to NH from MA in 2012 before the Warren / Brown election, but I voted in Coakley / Brown in 2010 and now Shaheen / Brown.
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The ballot measures here in New York are:
1. To create a redistricting commission to redraw the districts every 10 years, which I plan to vote YES on since I hardly see how it could get more corrupt than the people who win districts being allowed to draw them, though I could be wrong.
2. To allow electronic copies of bills to instead of paper ones to be used, which I vote YES on since I feel anything that makes it easier for lawmakers to actually see and read legislation is good
3. A $2 billion dollar bond authorization to fund technology upgrades for schools. I am most leery of this one, but I plan on voting YES for it because I am naive. soooo niaev.
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In line. Exciting!
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I have to wait until after 3 to go vote.
But VA8 seems like a kinda boring race, so maybe the wait won't be too long!
"Too close to call" means expected < 5 point margin
"Too early to call" means 6-10 point margin
Instacall is 10+
So since Kentucky closes stupidly early, we can maybe glean some things from how they characterize the Senate race there. Too close would mean the polls were off in the GOP's favor, instacall means they were off in the Dems favor. Too early, McConnell leading would be as expected.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
@So It Goes Re: The IRC channel - the link doesn't like the '&' in the name, so it connects you to "#d". Which, while funny for a variety of reasons, probably wasn't intended :P. Manually entering the "/join d&delectionnight" works, though...may want to choose a different name (#ddelectionnight or similar) so that the channel isn't split.
Also, voted a straight D ticket in Georgia this morning. Under no illusions that anyone I voted for will win, though. Hopefully some of them will be less than double-digits, unlike 2010.
Quoting this because I edited in the @ later.
Oops, maybe ebum can just change it to what you suggested
we're electing like 4000 judges and statewide races and
CA is fairly long, but it'll go fast. One of my favorite things about moving out here is the voter information pack. List of every candidate for every race, full breakdown of each prop, including arguments for, against, official analysis, and full legal text, sent out about a month before the election, along with a sample ballot. I research, fill out the sample, take it with me into the voting booth, and just copy it over.
we're electing like 4000 judges and statewide races and
That's how the New Orleans ballot was. A ton of judges on top of over a dozen constitutional amendments, and a bunch of local propositions. For the first time ever I had to actually wait in line to vote. It was weird.
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I have already wasted my votes, as an Oklahoman Democrat.
Georgia requires the winner to get 50% and there's a third party polling around 5%, which means it could go to a run off.
Polling generally overestimates 3rd party so I bet we get a winner one way or another in GA.
Also Busy but no wait because no one is trying to disenfranchise people where I live.
It was hard to get enthusiastic about this one, given how Dems largely ran away from Obama and the left even in New England. And our Gov candidate is not likable and might be the only thing that can make a statewide race competitive in MA nowadays.
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walked my dogs to the polls with me this morning (had to tie them up outside)
coakley is a lost cause i think at this point but i voted for her anyways. also voted against gambling - more convenient opportunities for people to make bad decisions is the last thing that boston needs.
we'll see. at least it looks like we'll keep a democratic senator (markey) anyways.
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Judgepedia says Bernstein and Murphy are the (Dem) judges, yeah? Any reason not to punch the chad for those two if that's my/your cup of tea? I was reading a bit of Murphy's judgepedia and I'm concerned about his ruling in a 4th Amendment drug dog search case. I thought maybe he was bound by precedent but there was a dissenting judge...
And where to Morgan/Thomas/Viviano stand for that partial term election?
EDIT: Am I wrong in playing the long con hoping a conservative justice might actually eke out some wins for (state-intrepreted) 4th Amendment freedoms while not managing to fuck up any re: same sex marriage and the like, considering that's coming down from Fed.Ct.App and USSC?
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Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
we're electing like 4000 judges and statewide races and
Electing judges is so terribad
We had 1 ballot, 2 sides, and that was with a Senate Race, Gov race, 3 other statewide offices, 4 Questions (Referendums), State Rep, State Senator, county commissioner and county auditor
also voted against gambling - more convenient opportunities for people to make bad decisions is the last thing that boston needs.
I meant to since the jobs at the casinos will be shitty and bad secondary effects generally come from casinos. But I got hit by the No means yes for casinos double negative thing.
I went to the wrong polling place due to a misunderstanding on my part. Thankfully, I'm white so it wasn't voter fraud, I was just confused. They very kindly directed me to the right place.
I didn't vote because I was a dummy and thought I had updated my address for my registration a year ago, but I hadn't so I did it a week ago. And I checked this morning and my registration isn't done yet. GA might have a runoff though, so hopefully it'll be ready by then.
I didn't vote because I was a dummy and thought I had updated my address for my registration a year ago, but I hadn't so I did it a week ago. And I checked this morning and my registration isn't done yet. GA might have a runoff though, so hopefully it'll be ready by then.
In Washington state, you can still vote if you haven't updated your address as long as you are registered (supposedly). Maybe you have a similar thing?
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3,000 registered voters and I think we didn't even crack 800.
Straight up calling you out, daughter. Welcome to the big leagues!
I'm voting at lunch, assuming I can find a polling spot. idk why, but I don't like early voting and never do it...
Property taxes, same as Texas, Kentucky, and New Hampshire.
edit: also franchise taxes and other corp. taxation, and sales tax.
Oh, also they could legalize pot.
We haven't had one for as long as I can remember, so I guess the same way as always.
Poorly?
Yeah, we have a 9.25% Sales Tax.
But legalizing Pot? Oh fuck no. If you showed Reefer Madness here, people would think it was a documentary.
Of course, she also got to meet Senator Professor Warren this week, soooo kind of jealous.
Voted last week in NC. That amendment proposal was a weird issue. I ended up going against it because judges have too much power as it is. It was something that I could go either way on but it being an amendment means it'll be hard to squash later if it proves to be a poor idea.
Anyway that was the toughest decision on the ballot besides researching the 19 candidates for that one office.
VOTER FRAUD.
I went against it as well, but see plenty of merit in the other side. I presume it will pass.
I'm curious how many people have had the opportunity to vote in both MA and NH in a Scott Brown Senate election. I moved to NH from MA in 2012 before the Warren / Brown election, but I voted in Coakley / Brown in 2010 and now Shaheen / Brown.
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1. To create a redistricting commission to redraw the districts every 10 years, which I plan to vote YES on since I hardly see how it could get more corrupt than the people who win districts being allowed to draw them, though I could be wrong.
2. To allow electronic copies of bills to instead of paper ones to be used, which I vote YES on since I feel anything that makes it easier for lawmakers to actually see and read legislation is good
3. A $2 billion dollar bond authorization to fund technology upgrades for schools. I am most leery of this one, but I plan on voting YES for it because I am naive. soooo niaev.
But VA8 seems like a kinda boring race, so maybe the wait won't be too long!
"Too close to call" means expected < 5 point margin
"Too early to call" means 6-10 point margin
Instacall is 10+
So since Kentucky closes stupidly early, we can maybe glean some things from how they characterize the Senate race there. Too close would mean the polls were off in the GOP's favor, instacall means they were off in the Dems favor. Too early, McConnell leading would be as expected.
we're electing like 4000 judges and statewide races and
Oops, maybe ebum can just change it to what you suggested
CA is fairly long, but it'll go fast. One of my favorite things about moving out here is the voter information pack. List of every candidate for every race, full breakdown of each prop, including arguments for, against, official analysis, and full legal text, sent out about a month before the election, along with a sample ballot. I research, fill out the sample, take it with me into the voting booth, and just copy it over.
That's how the New Orleans ballot was. A ton of judges on top of over a dozen constitutional amendments, and a bunch of local propositions. For the first time ever I had to actually wait in line to vote. It was weird.
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It was hard to get enthusiastic about this one, given how Dems largely ran away from Obama and the left even in New England. And our Gov candidate is not likable and might be the only thing that can make a statewide race competitive in MA nowadays.
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walked my dogs to the polls with me this morning (had to tie them up outside)
coakley is a lost cause i think at this point but i voted for her anyways. also voted against gambling - more convenient opportunities for people to make bad decisions is the last thing that boston needs.
we'll see. at least it looks like we'll keep a democratic senator (markey) anyways.
Judgepedia says Bernstein and Murphy are the (Dem) judges, yeah? Any reason not to punch the chad for those two if that's my/your cup of tea? I was reading a bit of Murphy's judgepedia and I'm concerned about his ruling in a 4th Amendment drug dog search case. I thought maybe he was bound by precedent but there was a dissenting judge...
And where to Morgan/Thomas/Viviano stand for that partial term election?
EDIT: Am I wrong in playing the long con hoping a conservative justice might actually eke out some wins for (state-intrepreted) 4th Amendment freedoms while not managing to fuck up any re: same sex marriage and the like, considering that's coming down from Fed.Ct.App and USSC?
Electing judges is so terribad
We had 1 ballot, 2 sides, and that was with a Senate Race, Gov race, 3 other statewide offices, 4 Questions (Referendums), State Rep, State Senator, county commissioner and county auditor
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I meant to since the jobs at the casinos will be shitty and bad secondary effects generally come from casinos. But I got hit by the No means yes for casinos double negative thing.
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Looks like you can go to your old polling place if you didn't move to a different county.
Obviously not lots of people have that money/time/inclination to do that, but I thought it was pretty nifty.