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November 4, 2008
Exercise your franchise!
I already did - while the coffee was brewing. That's easy for me because I vote in the church hall next door. I was voter #34 today.
I don't really know how to describe this, but there were a lot of presidential candidate lines and it got muddled at the bottom. In New York State everyone runs with as many partisan endorsements as he or she can, so the Republican candidates usually but not always show up on the Conservative (that is, specifically anti-Rockefeller Republicans, if I remember correctly) and the Democrats usually but not always show up on the Working Families line.
We use the old mechanical lever voting machines here, which are supposed to have been phased out after the 2006 midterm elections, but here they still are. Down at the bottom were the Libertarians, on row I or some such and the Greens on row J - but they had run out of levers, so Bob Barr was lever one in row I and Ralph Nader was lever two in row I. It's not a butterfly ballot, but it will confuse people!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at November 4, 2008 7:12 AM
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I went home to vote first thing this morning. I am getting used to the newish voting machines. They are the first machines I've dealt with that make provision for write-in votes -- yes, there was a state senate race with a viable write-in candidate. My home county is deep in the heart of red America, quite a switch from when I was growing up and the Republicans there could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Posted by: JSTB at November 4, 2008 9:15 AM