Happy Derping Fellow Americans

[AZRedhawk44]

So are you going to at least cast a blank ballot?

Blank ballots can be manipulated.

http://www.portlandpulp.com/stories/Voter-fraud-in-Oregon-undecided-republicans-177007171.html

The Oregon Department of Justice is now looking into allegations that a woman at the Clackamas County elections office has been tweaking ballots. Specifically, she is said to have been marking random people down for the Republican side in any spot on the ballot left blank.

I intend to be among the people who say "none of the above" and revoke their consent from this process.

[RevDisk]

Had one person freaking out because her DL had the wrong address, as she moved recently. Even if she had the correct ID, that would have put her in a different polling place. So, she had to fill out a provisional ballot, and was not happy.

There was a huge line for folks with a last name starting with M-Z. No line for A-N, so yay. 

I filled out a scantron ish paper ballot. Meh. Hopefully my vote was correctly counted.

Almost every slot had a L candidate, whom I voted for. One D, one R. I knew both of them personally, and they're alright even if they belong to corrupt, immoral and unethical parties. Not "good", but eh, good enough.

Tom Smith (R) accused Bob Casey Jr (D) of being a horribly ineffective politician, and passing ZERO bills in more than five years. Really? Cool! Got my vote. That's what I like to see in my politicians. It'd be hard for Tom Smith to do a better job, unless he repealed more laws than he got passed. Since he was not promising to have a negative number of bills passed, he could not do a better job. I mentioned that to a Tom Smith supporter who was trying to convince folks to vote for Smith, who looked absolutely horrified. Apparently, "talking points" were not supposed to be awesome reasons to vote for the other guy.

[AmbulanceDriver]

Apparently, "talking points" were not supposed to be awesome reasons to vote for the other guy.

*gigglesnort*  love rattling people's heads around with that kind of stuff.

[Monkeyleg]

Intentionally wore a USMC tshirt and USMC hat, just to see if anyone would be stupid enough to *expletive deleted* with me.

I'll have to try that and see if the little old ladies at the registration check tables give me any grief.

[RevDisk]

*gigglesnort*  love rattling people's heads around with that kind of stuff.

Oh, I was vicious.

Me: So, Casey got 0 bills passed. Which means his record is perfect. Statistically, if Smith put forth a bill, and it got passed, he probably can't beat Casey's record. Even if 99% of his bills passed are awesome, that 1% would give him a worse record than Casey, right?
Smith Supporter: Wait, NO!
Me: Explain to me how I have my statistics wrong. Casey has a perfect record, with 0% bad laws.
Smith Supporter: YEA! WITH ZERO LAWS.
Me: Not my fault he played smart.
Smith Supporter: *foaming at the mouth*
Me: Look, if you could prove to me that Smith could beat Casey's record, but sworn statements that he will throw his entire career behind repealing bad laws, I'd be willing to gamble.
Smith Supporter: Uh, well, he wants to repeal Obamacare!
Me: And Medicare Part D?
Smith Supporter: Huh?
Me: The hipster Obamacare, for old people.
Smith Supporter: What?
Me: Obamacare, before it was cool.  Well, technically, that'd be Romneycare, MA's version of Obamacare.
Smith Supporter: *furious sputtering*
Me: So you can't prove to me that Smith will have a better track record of NOT passing any bills, you can't prove to me he will improve ANYTHING, you're claiming he had lukewarm commitment towards repealing ONE bad law but no others and you want me to gamble on a complete unknown? This doesn't sound like a good idea, statistically.
Smith Supporter: Well, he's a loyal Republican!
Me: Which is kinda like saying he's committed to larger deficits, more debt, and anti-American laws. Kinda like Democrats.
Smith Supporter: *quickly walks away, cursing very loudly*
Old guy nearby: BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[cosine]

No line when I went to vote at 11:25 am CST. Walked right up to the table for my ward and got my ballot. My ballot was number 1212 recorded by the "scantron" machine. In the past I've usually voted before 9 am, so I don't know if the 1212 count is high, low, or about average for my district at 11:30 in the morning.

[RoadKingLarry]

Pretty good turn out for my precinct. Already had 61 votes on the machine that takes the ballots at 7:25.

[ArfinGreebly]

Told my boss I'd likely be in late, since the entire Idaho legislature is standing for reelection.

Showed up early, just after 7:00, and found the lines already growing, but only stood for about 10 minutes.  The ballot was a lot shorter than anticipated, since most of the house/senate districts are in the southern part of the state.

Voted yes on two constitutional issues regarding state & local control of hunting/fishing, preservation of traditional hunting/fishing.  Voted in favor of two out of three education reform bills, marked "no" on the one that offered an unfunded mandate to make the schools all "high tech" as though every-kid-gets-laptop would solve poor teaching or systemic problems.

Voted "meh" on some party-less local races.  Straight "R" wherever the choice was offered.  Found no "L" candidates I could support, and wherever the options were "old shoe" (R) vs "fine, upstanding saint" (D), I voted "R" -- this is my "scorched earth" year for "D" candidates up here.

All in all, no problems.  Noticed that most of the poll watchers were (subtly) wearing red sweaters.

In and out in under a half hour.

Arrived at work half an hour earlier than usual.

[kgbsquirrel]

And my civic duty is complete.

Got a mail in ballot like usual, but I like to turn mine in by hand. At the Aurora Municipal Center they had a drive up ballot drop off. Big padlocked bins under a portable awning with volunteers standing there. I found it to be very convenient and timely. As for the voting, only thing notable I did was decline to vote yes or no regarding retaining a slew of judges simply because I didn't have any basis for which to make an informed decision for them. Other than that, three state constitutional amendments, a few state legislators, my districts congressman and holy crap that's a long list of Presidential choices!    Figured y'all would get a kick out of this. You definitely can't say that Colorado lacks for choice...




...although the number of socialist candidates is a bit worrying. 

[cosine]

There were seven choices for President on my WI ballot, none of them were from the Peace and Freedom party. 

[lupinus]

Voted straight R, save for one. Course, with the exception of Pres, the choice was R or write in for most of the ballot around here. Only non-R was for an independent, and that one was R or independent.

Voting was quick as I was there about 2:30 so most people were at work. Understand there was a big turn out this morning and they're expecting a large after work turn out this evening as well.

[Balog]

Mail in ballots here in WA, I had planned to drop them off anyway as I find it more satisfying but something came up so I just put them in the mail instead. Of the 3 judges I could vote on, 2 were unopposed and the last race had a guy endorsed by the Libertarian party vs a woman endorsed by NARAL. Easy choice there...

[seeker_two]

I voted two weeks ago....didn't even have to drive near our polling place.

Going to start watching election returns @ 9pm Central....should give the Democrats on the East Coast time to falsify results....

[jamz]

I voted last week, no lines no waiting.  Pretty short ballot in Maine.

[Hutch]

Just done mah duty, as I seen it.

Btw, in AL, of the 16 state-wide or county-wide races not including the big Kahuna, ther were only 3 (!) races that even had a Democrat in the race out of 16.  One in the race for Congress (yeah, good luck,with that one), one for chief justice of the supreme court, and one for another office (state treasurer, maybe?).  In all the rest, republicans ran unopposed.

ETA:  the other "competitive" race was for chairman of the public services commission.

[Regolith]

I'm in Oregon; we have mail-in ballots here. I don't really trust USPS that much and I didn't feel like wasting a stamp, so I drove it in yesterday to the drop-off location at the courthouse.

[AmbulanceDriver]

I'm in Oregon; we have mail-in ballots here. I don't really trust USPS that much and I didn't feel like wasting a stamp, so I drove it in yesterday to the drop-off location at the courthouse.

Ditto... Except I dropped mine off on my way in to work this morning.

[Perd Hapley]

Guy at work drove two hours this evening, to where he was still registered to vote. Now that's doing your civic duty! 

Unfortunately, statistics would indicate he probably voted for Obama. 

[zxcvbob]

I just got home from being an election judge, but not the head judge.  From my quick look at the tape in my precinct, the incumbents (whether D or R) swept everything.  We also elected a corpse for mayor.  ETA: Registered voter turn out was *very* high.  And quite a few people registered today but I saw little if any monkey-business in that regard.

I wasn't planning to drink anything for a week or two to let my liver grow back after last weekend, but I might have to make an exception tonight.