Did you vote today?

[lendaddy]

Just got back and was shocked at how few had voted. I was only number 99 in my precinct??

Anyway, an interesting thing I noticed was that not one Democrat on my ballot was running opposed. This would lead me to believe virtually no Dems will show to vote. But....there was a lone ballot initiative to raise a tax for parks services. Guess how us Republicans will vote on that

Even though this works out in my favor, I don't think they should be allowed to have ballot initiatives on primary election ballots. JMHO.


Now go vote.

[dhoward]

On my way.
A good friend of mine is running for county Sheriff.

[Moses]

Originally posted by dhoward

A good friend of mine is running for county Sheriff.

Are you voting for him or against him?

[dhoward]

"Get out of Jail Free" card...

[kach22i]

Originally posted by lendaddy
Just got back and was shocked at how few had voted. I was only number 99 in my precinct??

Voted at 8:15 am, my wife and I were the first two to vote. Lazy college students just bother to come out to vote for the big one, if that.

[Nathans_Dad]

Lemme guess Kach...straight ticket Republican?

[RallyJon]

there was a lone ballot initiative to raise a tax for parks services. Guess how us Republicans will vote on that

Around here, you damn well better vote for that sort of thing, or the parks end up getting developed. Republican or not, seeing local greenspace go away is NOT cool.

[widebody911]

The poll workers told me that due to the workload, Dems and Independents vote tomrrow instead...

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by RallyJon
Around here, you damn well better vote for that sort of thing, or the parks end up getting developed. Republican or not, seeing local greenspace go away is NOT cool.

Not a problem here. The amount our county spends on BS park "services" is insane. I have a 500+acre park behind my house and they have spent millions putting in bike and walking paths with cute little bridges and si9gns and other crap. Bottom line....the park saw more use when we all used it for offroad vehicles than it does now. I estimate the county spent a couple grand per hiker so far

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by widebody911
The poll workers told me that due to the workload, Dems and Independents vote tomrrow instead...

Good, that's what we told them to say

[Rot 911]

I voted, if my boss doesn't get reelected I'll be looking for another job!

[legion]

We're not having any elections here that I know of...

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
Lemme guess Kach...straight ticket Republican?

In our state you invalidate your primary ticket if you split parties. It was Democrat verses Democrat today.

[azasadny]

Nope, nothing local to vote for here...

[Porsche-O-Phile]

No election here.

What's the point of voting a "party line" anyway? Never understood that. To me it simply implies a "default" level of laziness to investigate the issues/candidates and get suckered in by dumbed-down bullet points.

But whatever works for ya.

[RPKESQ]

I agree, party lines are the result of either one issue voters or lazyness. No party is right 100% of the time.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
No election here.

What's the point of voting a "party line" anyway? Never understood that. To me it simply implies a "default" level of laziness to investigate the issues/candidates and get suckered in by dumbed-down bullet points.

But whatever works for ya.

It's a primary, it's not lazy it's the law

[Porsche-O-Phile]

If you register independent you can choose which ballot you want, which opens up a level of other tactics available to you.

In a general election it actually liberates your mind to vote issues and candidates instead of brainless defaulting to "list A" or "list B".

There is no provision for party politics in the Constitution and I personally think the public-at-large would benefit from its abolition.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
If you register independent you can choose which ballot you want, which opens up a level of other tactics available to you.

Wrong, you cannot mix your ballot period. You can pick either, but not both. It matters not how you are registered.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I said you can choose which ballot you want, not that you could pick both and mix-and-match. Kindly please read the text before responding in attack mode.

All I'm saying is that you have a choice of either "supporting" a candidate or trying to undermine a candidate in either party by the choice of particular ballot you make - of course that strategy locks you into a particular ballot for all the "other" offices on the ticket (judges, dog catchers, sheriffs, etc.)

In the 2000 election I actually pulled a Republican ticket for the primary to vote against Bush in an attempt to keep him out of the general election. I knew that Gore was almost undoubtedly going to win the CA primary by that point and pretty much had the nomination sewn up. It's just another strategy that's available to a person. That's all.

I debated doing this in the recent CA gubenitorial primary - I'm an Arnold supporter and was confronted with the choice of either pulling the (R) ticket to endorse Arnold (or, I suppose, be one of the <1% of opposing candidates running against him for the nomination) or to pull the (D) ticket to undermine a candidate I might be concerned about beating him. Since I didn't think the Democrats had anyone strong enough to take him in the general election and since most of the "other" offices on the ballot were for judges and sheriffs (a few others), I pulled the (R) ticket and voted for Arnold.

All I'm saying is independant affiliation (or "no affiliation" as it's called here) is typically a lot better.