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Vendaval -> Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/21/2008 11:40:42 PM)

Greetings A/all,
 
Who here is voting in person?  Anyone prefer absentee voting?  What kinds of machines and processes do you have in your state and district?  Do you have to show an ID card and proof of address?



BitaTruble -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/21/2008 11:59:09 PM)

Himself and I will both vote in person. We just moved to this area in Feb, so I don't know what they have in place .. machine, paper etc. We both received voter cards, so I'm just taking those and some ID just in case.



Vendaval -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 12:05:29 AM)

I prefer going through the whole voting in person experience.  The absentee method just seems less interesting or too impersonal to me.  We use black felt markes on Scan-tron like cards.  The folks running the election centers are usually friendly and fun to talk with, most of them are retired folks and very cheerful.



FullfigRIMaam -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 12:11:04 AM)

I didn't have to show ID last time I went to vote.   I hope there isn't an "only DL sufices" requirement, for those people who haven't one.  I plan to vote in person, and hope most people do just that, because it seems there is desperation to hold on to power currently at play, that I would trust nothing except myself inserting balot in box (and even that isn't a sure bet).   M



slaveboyforyou -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 3:03:04 AM)

I'm voting early, which I usually do.  I don't like waiting in lines or finding a place to park on election day.  It's simply easier to go early and get it over with.  I have to vote early this time around, because I will be out of town on election day.  When you vote early, there are two places to vote in my county.  I vote at the county election commission office, because it's closer.  On election day, you generally vote at your assigned polling place.  In my district of the county, it's at the Boy Scouts headquarters for this area. 

In my county, we are given a choice between a paper ballot or electronic voting.  Since they introduced electronic voting, I have been choosing that method.  Our electronic voting machines are simply computers with touch screens.  I like that method, because you can review all your choices to make sure you didn't screw up before finally pushing the button to verify your choices.  I can still remember the old machines where you turned dials next to your choice, then pulled the lever.  On the paper ballots, you connect arrows next to your choice with a felt marker, then you insert your ballot into a counter.  Yes, we have to show a photo ID to establish identity before being given a ballot. 



LaTigresse -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 3:38:58 AM)

Since I work 50-60 (depends on which route I have to take) miles from where I live and have some long days, it makes it difficult to do everything I have to do in a day, then drive another 10 miles over to the small town where I would have to vote in person.

Absentee ballots are the shiznet as far as I am concerned. I got online, registered, they sent the ballot in the mail, I returned it, voila'!, I am done.



corysub -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 3:45:43 AM)

Since we are not traveling or abroad, I am voting in person.  I enjoy the entire experience of going into the booth and pulling down the lever..or now touching an electronic screen. Where I vote in NJ we just have to sign the registry, get a number, and go in and vote.  Have never been asked for ID...at least until this year.  I really hope they do ask for ID...but the rules are made by politicians who like the system the way it is for some reason...."wink"



pahunkboy -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 5:28:33 AM)

I prefer mail in.  but this time,  i think im too late. i did not like that the worker watched whom i voted in the primary= he did so to be helpful.

my water bill says to support the bond issue.  but i need to know more.  also unclear is who is even on the pa ballot



camille65 -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 5:58:31 AM)

I'd planned on doing absentee voting but I think I've run into a problem, so I don't know. Need to do some research today. I've always been able to vote in person (no ID needed most of the time, just having my name checked off a list then going into the booth) but this year I moved in September assuming that I could do an absentee vote. Never having done absentee before I just assumed (yeah I'm doing way too much assuming and not enough checking) that it wouldn't be a problem.

Argh.



bipolarber -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 6:12:06 AM)

I voted in person. I voted early. The lines were steady, but not overwhelming. Got to chat with a lot of nice Obama supporters... many of which were college kids voting for the first time.



sambamanslilgirl -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 7:02:13 AM)

i'm doing early voting next week since i'll be covering part of the election during the day and a free concert later that night. we have those computerized machines (no hanging chads). i don't show my voter's card - just my driver's license will do.



Irishknight -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 7:05:08 AM)

I'm taking my crayon and making my x in person.



kyraofMists -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 7:06:46 AM)

I have already voted by absentee ballot since I no longer live in the US.  I used to live in Florida where they had the whole "hanging chad" issue.  I cannot recall what method they use to vote now.

Knight's Kyra



sub4hire -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 7:07:53 AM)

Population 300 here so no ID needed.  I'm sure there must be some option of voting absentee but I don't know about it yet.
Here they tell you nothing.  In larger cities they sent us the book we could read through on the issues, etc.  Not here.
Either you remember or forget it.

No computers here.  Last time I voted it was a blank piece of paper with nothing written on it.  The old punch style if I'm correct.  I didn't get that far. 

This election I will be writing in much more than just the president.




pahunkboy -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 7:13:23 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Irishknight

I'm taking my crayon and making my x in person.


A state MR facility is here.  The workers take the residents to vote. A few know what they want.  Many dont, and our coached.  It is all approved under what is known as "normalization".  

the grid knows when my check is even a penny over to assess a $35 fee. and yet- the grid cant count simple votes. 

the grid figures out my property tax. down to the penny. but it cant count votes.

shopping at the store, the 6% sales tax is always assessed even on products that are exempt.  ooops.  never mind - the scanner is often wrong, in the houses favor.

oh how we are so lulled into fake fantasy that we actualy are still a democracy.  what a bummer.



thetammyjo -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 8:33:17 AM)

We vote as a household in person when the polls first open on election day. We go get donuts together as a "reward" and we might then talk about who we voted for at that time.

We gather information throughout the campaigns from as many sources as we can (the newspaper puts out nice questionnaire for local elections that we keep) and place them on the table for everyone to look at. We do not look at information together nor do we attempt to persuade each other how to vote -- we are a family partly because are views are very similar so it is unnecessary.

One of the requirements to join our household is being this political aware and active -- you are welcomed to do more but you must attempt to do the research and you must go vote. Obviously this only applies to citizens; if we had a person who wasn't an American citizen this would not be an expectation for them.



Aileen1968 -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 8:59:58 AM)

I'm voting absentee only because I'll be away that day. 



SilverMark -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 9:05:45 AM)

In Person at the polls just to be the only 2 Democratic votes in our precinct....voting twice registered with acorn as a dead guy from one of the local cemetaries....



CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 11:31:41 AM)

I'm voting in person (early voting). We have electronic machines (blech!) and have to show a driver's license if we don't have our voter registration card handy (mine is packed up for our move, but I won't be changing districts in any case).

My daughter isn't voting after all -- two days ago, they returned her registration. It seems that Texas didn't like her Texas ID card, and insists that she is -really- living in North Carolina (where she lived until 2 years ago), even though she sent a copy of a utility bill in her name and with the proper address, AND a copy of her current paystub with a letter from her boss stating that she is a current, active employee and is working/living in Houston, AND her high-school transcripts showing that she had been living in Texas for 2 years prior to turning 18 after they kicked back her registration the FIRST time, saying that she hadn't been a resident long enough in Texas. A large portion of her graduating class had their registrations returned by the State of Texas for "insufficient information". All but one of her relatively large circle of friends had their registrations denied, and apparently, quite a few of the 'friends of friends' circle did as well... somewhere in the neighborhood of half the people she knows directly or who are friends through someone she knows directly.



Steponme73 -> RE: Are you voting in person or by absentee ballot? (10/22/2008 11:45:27 AM)

Absentee....Already have voted.



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