votering

[AnimalChin]

so i think i'm gonna vote for the first time ever and i looked at a sample ballot and i don't know who anyone is except for the presidential candidates.

is there an awesome website that tells me about my local soil and water conservation district supervisors David Dowdy and David Thomas and all the other elected officials?

or should/can i leave everything else blank and just vote for pres. (i am writing in Hondo)

i would rather not do a straight party vote because fuck that

also there is some early voter thingy starting oct. 16th. is it to be trusted?

[LordOfTheShrooms]

Quote: Originally Posted by AnimalChin is there an awesome website that tells me about my local soil and water conservation district supervisors David Dowdy and David Thomas and all the other elected officials?

Poke around on google and see if you can find a localish non-profit group that keeps track of such things. You might have trouble finding an objective source for something that local though.

Quote: or should/can i leave everything else blank and just vote for pres.

Yes, you can.

Quote: i would rather not do a straight party vote because fuck that

Good. If you don't know the issues in a particular race, you shouldn't cast a vote for that race.

Quote: also there is some early voter thingy starting oct. 16th. is it to be trusted?

Yes. Vote early. Voting on election day is absolutely horrible. You will spend hours (yes, multiple hours) in line.

[Phix]

Quote: Originally Posted by LordOfTheShrooms Yes. Vote early. Voting on election day is absolutely horrible. You will spend hours (yes, multiple hours) in line.

I don't know what's wrong with you people in the South. I've never had to wait longer than 5 minutes to vote here in NY. And that's with multiple districts voting at the same location. I've been voting since 1990.

Ballots aren't that hard to figure out...

So cornfusing!

[sandman]

never had to wait more than 5 or 10 minutes, evar. and that's in OHio where we am all dumb as fcuk and vote early and often.

[Phix]

Oh yeah, and we're still using voting machines made in 1972.

[sandman]

we use paper. you fill in the spot of your choice and feed it into a scanner.

simple and brilliant. none of that hanging chad or touch screen horse shit.

[Phix]

I like the lever voting machines better.

Something about working with machinery just feels more legit than a computer scanner.

New fangled technology (when it comes to voting) skeers me!

[Phix]

Oh, and we should do the purple finger shit too to stop those ACORN nuts from voting a hundred times, or busing homeless around to 1000 different polling locations.

[sandman]

that entire ACORN organization needs to be shut down. It's an embarrassment.

[LordOfTheShrooms]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phix I've never had to wait longer than 5 minutes to vote here in NY.

I generally haven't since I've started doing the early voting thing. First time I voted I went on election day. That's when it took fucking forever.

[Phix]

Quote: Originally Posted by LordOfTheShrooms I generally haven't since I've started doing the early voting thing. First time I voted I went on election day. That's when it took fucking forever.

That's the thing though. NY doesn't have early voting, and we seem to be able to do it quickly and efficiently... All with paper ledgers for signature and address verification. I just can't believe what's so difficult in other parts of the country.

[LordOfTheShrooms]

Hmmm. No clue then. Might be differences in number of people in districts, or turnout, or stupid people, or my experience could have just been a fluke.

[Phix]

Quote: Originally Posted by LordOfTheShrooms Hmmm. No clue then. Might be differences in number of people in districts, or turnout, or stupid people, or my experience could have just been a fluke.

Congressional districts are divided up by equal populations. Of course gerrymandering can make some people have to drive through a few districts just to get to their polling place, in their same district.

My guess is stupid state election boards that must be fucking things up.

[LordOfTheShrooms]

Now that I think about it, that first time I went to vote Texas had just moved to an electronic voting system. That probably had a lot to do with it.

It's a particularly stupid machine that has a big wheel that you have to turn to select the candidate you want. No touch screen option. Ghey.

[maladjusted]

Hey look at Shroomy not being a retard again. DUDE you're growing up sooo fast.


Shorty if you look at local voting pamphlets beware - in Oregon they were horrible, the descriptions they'd write on issues were really fucked, and there's no guarantee of them being factual - they were basically press releases by each side of the issue, full of lies and bullshit. The suggestion to find an unbiased source is good - the voter pamphlet ideally would contain no-nonsense descriptions of issues and bios/ resumes of candidates, but instead even they are filled with lies and bullshit.

And Shroomy is spot on with the "if you don't know the issue (candidates) then don't vote" comment. Spot fucking on.

[LordOfTheShrooms]

I've come a long way from making tshirts.

[Phix]

Quote: Originally Posted by LordOfTheShrooms I've come a long way from making tshirts.

Now THAT should be on a t-shirt!

[AnimalChin]

now i have to do fucking homework just to vote for assholes i hate

this is why i never voted before

[Phix]

Quote: Originally Posted by AnimalChin now i have to do fucking homework just to vote for assholes i hate this is why i never voted before

Or you could just vote Democrat across the board. That requires no thought at all.

[sandman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phix Or you could just vote Democrat across the board. That requires no thought at all.

that's why Obama is a shoe-in.