Medusa
Joined: January 15, 2004 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:14 PM UTC
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Just returned from voting - the line literally stretched down the block! The hour I had to wait went by quite quickly and I felt good being there.
Last night I started thinking of acronymns for the word VOTE.
My favorite one I came up with:
Vote Out Tyrannical Extremists
Any others?
Cheers
DJ Medusa.
Random Citizen
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:23 PM UTC
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I arrived at my polling location in Takoma Park about 10 minutes before the polls opened. There were ~50 people there ahead of me. By the time I exited, there were at least a hundred folks waiting in line.
keithstg
Joined: December 17, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:25 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
I arrived at my polling location in Takoma Park about 10 minutes before the polls opened. There were ~50 people there ahead of me. By the time I exited, there were at least a hundred folks waiting in line.
Lines were also long at my polling place in Dupont Circle this morning…
Random Citizen
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:30 PM UTC
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Despite the line and the new-fangled electronic voting machines, the poll workers kept everyone moving along at a good pace. I actually arrived at work at my regular time.
Doctor Doom
Joined: April 23, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:36 PM UTC
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in my neighborhood (Doompont), the line stretched down a full block and then halfway around the corner. I couldn't wait but I'll leave work mid-day to do my part to BEAT THE BUSH!
Medusa
Joined: January 15, 2004 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 565
Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:38 PM UTC
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Originally posted by keithstg:
Lines were also long at my polling place in Dupont Circle this morning…
Sounds like we were at the same place (St. Thomas Church)!
We could very well have been near each other in line, even though we wouldn't have known it (I don't know what you look like).
Cheers
DJ Medusa.
dyssocial
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:43 PM UTC
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I voted by absentee ballot last week, so today was a bit of an anti-climax for me personally – that does not assuage the nervousness of waiting. Damn.
ratioci nation
Joined: November 22, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 01:51 PM UTC
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Looks like it is raining heavily in PA and OH :(
lwoxley
Joined: October 06, 2004 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 02:06 PM UTC
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My vote in MD is completely a waste of time seeing as the Dem always takes it….which brings me to yet another chance to bitch about the electoral college bullshit.
IDEA!
If you insist on having this electoral college crap in doodleville, why not do it another way to make it a little less unfair.
Say, for example Knobhead Bush gets 51% and Kerry 49% of the votes in OH…instead of Bush getting all the electoral college votes, he should get 51% of them and Kerry 49% of them, that would seem to make a little more sense out of a stupid system……no? Still not as democratic as the popular vote system, but better than the shit you all have now.
lwoxley
Joined: October 06, 2004 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 02:10 PM UTC
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BTW facists….I mean republicans. It's only ONE vote each, and black people get one each too.
lwoxley
Joined: October 06, 2004 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 02:12 PM UTC
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Originally posted by marquee smith:
Who let the Irish in?
John Kerry! :D
Rhett Miller
Joined: November 15, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 02:57 PM UTC
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Being the nice guy I am, I think Blacks and Women should get three votes each, to make up for a time when they didn't have the vote.
Originally posted by O'Mankie:
BTW facists….I mean republicans. It's only ONE vote each, and black people get one each too.
thirsty moore
Joined: January 11, 2000 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 03:03 PM UTC
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I thought John Kerry wasn't Irish at all?
ratioci nation
Joined: November 22, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 03:19 PM UTC
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Well after believing DC screwed up my registration, I just discovered I am registered so I will be voting shortly. Kerry is about to have 79.99999999% of the dc vote rather than 79.99999998% of it! woooooooooooooooooo
sonickteam2
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 03:20 PM UTC
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Well, I went to the poll place with my girlfiend and DAMN there were lots of people there. And we were sorta in the ghetto. Old school voting machines, and just two of them. But the people there said 450 people voted there in 2000, and they had over 120 at 8:45am.
Election day is the only real day i wish i was a doodle.
quite a buzz going around
Venerable Bede
Joined: October 16, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Please Vote!
November 02, 2004 at 03:21 PM UTC
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Originally posted by pollard:
Well after believing DC screwed up my registration, I just discovered I am registered so I will be voting shortly. Kerry is about to have 79.99999999% of the dc vote rather than 79.99999998% of it! woooooooooooooooooo
yeah. . .dc is just a means to increase his popular vote. :)
