Voting in the Election

[Coito ergo sum]

I haven't voted yet!!!

Thank you to all you folks who kindly waited in 2+ hour lines for the convenience of "early voting!" I'm expecting to head to the polls on the way to the office tomorrow at 6:55am, and be done voting by 7:10am. Thanks again, to all those who wasted their weekends so they didn't have to vote on election day!




On Tuesday, we'll have many more polling places open, and only about 1/2 the electorate voting!

[Kristie]

I wonder how many of those people actually needed to do the early voting?

[Coito ergo sum]

I wonder how many of those people actually needed to do the early voting?

Almost none. The polls are open 7am to 7pm. If even 1/4 of the electorate were too busy to squeeze voting into a 12 hour period, our country would have not be having the problems we have today.

I don't get it. In 2008, I voted on election day and I waited 20 minutes. In 2010, I went to the poll to early vote the Saturday before the election and the line was abominable, so I went and had a nice lunch with SWMBO'd instead. I voted on election day without waiting at all, except for 10 minutes because I got there before the polls opened.

[Coito ergo sum]

This is a dramatization of me going to vote tomorrow....

[Thinking Aloud]

I've never ever had to wait to vote. The folks on the registration tables have always look pretty pleased to see someone walk in, actually.

[Kristie]

I bet a lot of people don't realize their employers have to allow them time to go vote. Lots of people like nurses work 7a-7p. And, Indiana's polls close at 6 pm.

[Kristie]

The longest I've waited in line was around an hour.

[Tero]

Never had a problem voting at the megachurch. 60% from the district will vote for Akin holding their nose. All those and more also for Romney.

[Coito ergo sum]

I bet a lot of people don't realize their employers have to allow them time to go vote. Lots of people like nurses work 7a-7p. And, Indiana's polls close at 6 pm.

Many states do have such laws. They don't apply to most people, because most of the laws don't require the employer to do anything if the employee has 2 hours before or 2 hours after his or her shift ends giving them time to vote. But, many states do have laws that require, if an employee, say, has a 12 hour shift that day, they have to be given sufficient time to enable them to vote.

The following states do not have time-off-to-vote laws: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Never had a problem voting at the megachurch. 60% from the district will vote for Akin holding their nose. All those and more also for Romney.

I will be happily voting against Mistakin Akin.

[Coito ergo sum]

I wonder if we'll break 60% in voter turnout this year? Haven't done that since 1968, when Nixon beat Johnson.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I wonder if we'll break 60% in voter turnout this year? Haven't done that since 1968, when Nixon beat Johnson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... tion,_1968

[Coito ergo sum]

I wonder if we'll break 60% in voter turnout this year? Haven't done that since 1968, when Nixon beat Johnson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... tion,_1968

doh!!!

Brainfart -- when Nixon was elected. Johnson bowed out of the race. Sheez! lol

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I wonder if we'll break 60% in voter turnout this year? Haven't done that since 1968, when Nixon beat Johnson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... tion,_1968

doh!!!

Brainfart -- when Nixon was elected. Johnson bowed out of the race. Sheez! lol

That was the last Presidential election I didn't vote in. Because I couldn't.