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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #50 on: November 05, 2008, 09:19:22 AM »
only one out of the 23 people there to help the voters was able to show me how to write in a vote.

Quote from: BrokenPaw on November 04, 2008, 10:00:49 AM
My district switched from the old mechanical voting machines to electronic touch-screen ones for this election.

I know enough code pigs (and I am one myself) to fear computer-based voting.

-BP

we switch to electronic voting next year, and i also worry.
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #51 on: November 05, 2008, 10:27:25 AM »
My voting place is in a school, so I had to be unarmed in order to vote. =(  Stinks! :mad:
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #52 on: November 05, 2008, 11:15:49 AM »
Quote from: Mike on November 05, 2008, 10:27:25 AM
My voting place is in a school, so I had to be unarmed in order to vote. =(  Stinks! :mad:

Hmmm, maybe you need to move to California. A CCW holder does not need to disarm at a school here.

Back to your regularly-scheduled thread - I had an annoying thing happen...

Obama won.

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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #53 on: November 05, 2008, 11:27:30 AM »
Quote from: Mike on November 05, 2008, 10:27:25 AM
My voting place is in a school, so I had to be unarmed in order to vote. =(  Stinks! :mad:

What states allow you to carry concealed into a polling place in the first place, no matter where it's located?

Pennsylvania doesn't, Virginia certainly doesn't.
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #54 on: November 05, 2008, 11:28:43 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 05, 2008, 11:27:30 AM
What states allow you to carry concealed into a polling place in the first place, no matter where it's located?

Pennsylvania doesn't, Virginia certainly doesn't.

I'm pretty sure Iowa does if its not a school.

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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #55 on: November 05, 2008, 03:54:23 PM »
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My voting place is in a school, so I had to be unarmed in order to vote.

Just be glad you don't have to spend six hours in one every weekday!
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #56 on: November 05, 2008, 04:31:48 PM »
I voted across teh street from my house at teh old folks home.

No line.  Fill in the oval with a pen, optically-scanned ballots.

Did feel guilty about not buying anything at the bake sale in the lobby though.





What?  There was no fresh certified-Grandma baking waiting to be purchased at your polling place?

 =D
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #57 on: November 05, 2008, 05:11:21 PM »
Quote from: Gewehr98 on November 04, 2008, 06:09:08 PM
I tooted.

Loudly.

Mrs. G98 was next door in the other booth. 

Everybody there at the polling place now knows my first and middle name.



Was it commentary on your choice of candidates?
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #58 on: November 05, 2008, 05:13:26 PM »
Quote from: carebear on November 05, 2008, 04:31:48 PM
What?  There was no fresh certified-Grandma baking waiting to be purchased at your polling place?

 =D

Grandma-baked goods and you passed?  Will of iron, man, will of iron...
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #59 on: November 05, 2008, 05:36:45 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 05, 2008, 11:27:30 AM
What states allow you to carry concealed into a polling place in the first place, no matter where it's located?

Michigan.
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #60 on: November 06, 2008, 07:39:20 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 05, 2008, 11:27:30 AM
What states allow you to carry concealed into a polling place in the first place, no matter where it's located?

Pennsylvania doesn't, Virginia certainly doesn't.

Virginia.  My polling place is not a school, it's a library. 
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #61 on: November 06, 2008, 09:48:18 AM »
The whole vote-by-mail thing in Oregon bugged me.  Our system is set up perfectly to facilitate fraud.
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #62 on: November 06, 2008, 10:23:47 AM »
Well dang, I thought there was a general prohibition against carrying firearms into a polling place in Virginia. Can't find anything...
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Re: What little thing happened while voting bugs you?
« Reply #63 on: November 06, 2008, 10:42:24 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 06, 2008, 10:23:47 AM
Well dang, I thought there was a general prohibition against carrying firearms into a polling place in Virginia. Can't find anything...

I looked very throughly before carrying there, and couldn't find anything either.  Hopefully I'll still be able to do it next election. 
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