For the 2nd time in 5 years, I go to my polling place this morning, and find that my 'party' affiliation has been switched from registered Dem to registered Rep. You can't change it at the poll, but you can vote provisional. I chose to use the REP ballot, and protest-voted for Alan Keyes.
annoyed, and very distrustful of voting in America.....
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How can they change your affiliation from Dem to Repub like that? That's unbelievable. I would be irate. By the way, who missed out on your vote... Hillary or Barack?
I don't know what I'm going to encounter going to the polls today. I've had major problems in the last few elections (never receiving an absentee ballot and then having to vote provisional two times ago, and then having them send my absentee ballot to a wrong address and refusing to send a new one so I had to vote provisional again last time). I'm finally off the absentee list and I just decided to go to the polls this time and vote there. <Fingers crossed>
I don't know what I'm going to encounter going to the polls today. I've had major problems in the last few elections (never receiving an absentee ballot and then having to vote provisional two times ago, and then having them send my absentee ballot to a wrong address and refusing to send a new one so I had to vote provisional again last time). I'm finally off the absentee list and I just decided to go to the polls this time and vote there. <Fingers crossed>
I've been voting in the same polling place for the past nine years and I have never seen it more crowded than it was this evening. MA is reliably blue, so presidential elections are a forgone conclusion here and don't elicit much excitement. I suspect that it's the openness of the D race so far that is finally causing a big turnout.
I moved about a year ago and registered to vote last September. We had a city election at that time and I voted without trouble. A sucessful test-run.
I also voted in MA this evening. Being "unenrolled" I thought long and hard about taking the D or R ballot. Eight years ago I remember taking the R ballot to vote for McCain (in a desperate attempt to stop Bush). In the end, this year I did the same thing. Romney is the snake oil salesman of presidiential politics and nothing would please me more than to see him lose in his "home" state.
Had I voted in the D primary, I'd have voted for Clinton. I call this the kick-Ted-Kennedy's-ass vote. His Obama endorsement speach offended me. Move on Hillary! It's time for Change We Can Believe In! There is no need for any woman in American politics to move on in order to make room for another man and his "fresh" ideas. When is the Senator going to pack his bags and get on the bus? And speaking of letting the winds of change blow through, how about letting them blow through a hundred wind turbines on Nantucket Sound you proponent of change and progress you!
I also voted in MA this evening. Being "unenrolled" I thought long and hard about taking the D or R ballot. Eight years ago I remember taking the R ballot to vote for McCain (in a desperate attempt to stop Bush). In the end, this year I did the same thing. Romney is the snake oil salesman of presidiential politics and nothing would please me more than to see him lose in his "home" state.
Had I voted in the D primary, I'd have voted for Clinton. I call this the kick-Ted-Kennedy's-ass vote. His Obama endorsement speach offended me. Move on Hillary! It's time for Change We Can Believe In! There is no need for any woman in American politics to move on in order to make room for another man and his "fresh" ideas. When is the Senator going to pack his bags and get on the bus? And speaking of letting the winds of change blow through, how about letting them blow through a hundred wind turbines on Nantucket Sound you proponent of change and progress you!
Alan Keyes? So that's where he's been hiding! Wow...I thought he slithered back underneath a rock after his stunning defeat in Illinois a few years ago. We still laugh about him in the newsroom.
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I also voted in MA this evening. Being "unenrolled" I thought long and hard about taking the D or R ballot. Eight years ago I remember taking the R ballot to vote for McCain (in a desperate attempt to stop Bush). In the end, this year I did the same thing. Romney is the snake oil salesman of presidiential politics and nothing would please me more than to see him lose in his "home" state.
Had I voted in the D primary, I'd have voted for Clinton. I call this the kick-Ted-Kennedy's-ass vote. His Obama endorsement speach offended me. Move on Hillary! It's time for Change We Can Believe In! There is no need for any woman in American politics to move on in order to make room for another man and his "fresh" ideas. When is the Senator going to pack his bags and get on the bus? And speaking of letting the winds of change blow through, how about letting them blow through a hundred wind turbines on Nantucket Sound you proponent of change and progress you!
Romney did win his "home" state, it appears, while Obama won both Nantucket and Dukes (Martha's Vineyard) counties, along with Boston (Suffolk) and two western, very progressive counties in Massachusetts.
I voted by absentee ballot a week ago, for Obama. The ballot arrived promptly and I'm assuming it was counted. I was very happy to see Obama win nearly every county in Illinois, including some that are strongly Republican. Not that the GOP has a chance in hell in Illinois these days, but still.
From the Phila. Daily News:
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JUST AFTER getting to work yesterday morning, Philadelphia election officials got a call from a woman with an urgent complaint: 10 people were lined up outside at their polling place but the building was locked up tight.
Where could they vote?
It was among the first of more than 400 calls from people who thought it was Election Day in Philadelphia, according to workers in the city commissioners office.
"We've been telling people the only way they can vote is to get in their car and drive to Jersey," joked Tim Dowling, a campaign finance specialist in the office.
"We were very patient and explained [that] there was a primary in New Jersey but not here," said another worker who asked not to be identified.
"Most people were very polite; they apologized for calling. But some of them insisted, they knew it was Election Day and they were going to vote. So we told them to go over the bridge."
Where could they vote?
It was among the first of more than 400 calls from people who thought it was Election Day in Philadelphia, according to workers in the city commissioners office.
"We've been telling people the only way they can vote is to get in their car and drive to Jersey," joked Tim Dowling, a campaign finance specialist in the office.
"We were very patient and explained [that] there was a primary in New Jersey but not here," said another worker who asked not to be identified.
"Most people were very polite; they apologized for calling. But some of them insisted, they knew it was Election Day and they were going to vote. So we told them to go over the bridge."
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