do you normally work on saturdays?

4/23/2008 11:19:18 AM

If any fellow slacker non working folks are planning to go to Greensboro tomorrow, you can probably ride with me if you want. I think we're gonna hit Morning Times at 8:30 then immediately drive to the Coliseum to get tickets there.

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM. Reason : .]

4/23/2008 11:21:00 AM

plz to discontinue bumping this thread until after I get my tickets tomorrow.

let's

let it




fall...


off the


1st page


shhh

4/23/2008 11:23:33 AM

Yeah, I think I'm going to hit Morning Times at 830. I hope it's not necessary to camp out. If anyone does go early, can they post in the morning on what the line is like?

4/23/2008 11:23:45 AM

I was going to do that w/ the Morning Times, but their tickets aren't distributed until Saturday. By the way I read it, they can be picked up during early voting tomorrow, so I'm going to go to the DAP and pick them up there at 7 am.

I don't wanna take the chance of them being given away and then left with few to give away at Morning Times on Saturday.

4/23/2008 11:31:02 AM

Quote :

"but their tickets aren't distributed until Saturday"

Where does it say that? It clearly says "Tickets can be picked up in Forsythe, Guilford, Randolph, Almanace, Orange, Durham, and Wake Counties at the following locations during early voting hours starting Thursday April 24"

Morning Times is one of those locations, so I assume they'll have tickets at 8:30 tomorrow morning.

and I have class at 8:30 tomorrow morning.

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM. Reason : .]

4/23/2008 11:34:36 AM

^ sorry, I misread it.

The way the hours were listed, it appeared as if the Morning Times tickets weren't distributed until a later date --- sorry for any confusion.

4/23/2008 12:10:02 PM

i'm totes confused now

4/23/2008 12:33:17 PM

Just ignore my post, re-read StillFuschia's post and all should be cleared up, Wilso.

I am at work, half distracted and misread the information.

4/23/2008 1:13:49 PM

no, you just suck

4/23/2008 1:16:40 PM

my g/f just went by morning times cafe and they actually don't know what's going on yet because they haven't gotten a call from whomever is running it yet. They said for her to call back later.

4/23/2008 1:25:54 PM

I did find this out from the Morning Times ---

they will begin handing out tickets at 8:30 am and you can ONLY get a ticket if you have proof that you participated in early voting.

4/23/2008 2:37:14 PM

If you've already voted then why would they want you at the rally lol

How the fuck do you prove you voted?

4/23/2008 2:49:17 PM

wait...what?

i'm not a democrat so i can't vote early because i can't vote

this is some bullshit

are you going to have to prove you voted for obama, too?

4/23/2008 2:49:29 PM

Quote :

"they will begin handing out tickets at 8:30 am and you can ONLY get a ticket if you have proof that you participated in early voting."

weird, I wonder how you'd get proof

plus the only place in Wake county open for that right now is at the Board of Elections office

which coincidentally also opens at 8:30

Quote :

"i'm not a democrat so i can't vote early because i can't vote"

if you're unaffiliated, you can still vote in the democratic primary

if you're just not registered, that also isn't a problem

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 2:54 PM. Reason : .]

4/23/2008 2:53:10 PM

^^For what it's worth, unaffiliated voters can vote in the Democratic primary.

But yeah, it's pretty lame

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 2:53 PM. Reason : ^]

4/23/2008 2:53:38 PM

it's illegal to require proof that you voted for a candidate, if i remember correctly.

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 2:54 PM. Reason : .]

4/23/2008 2:53:49 PM

well it didn't say you had to vote for him

it just said you have to prove you voted

but someone should ask how you could prove such a thing (maybe one of those "I voted" stickers? LOL)

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 2:59 PM. Reason : .]

4/23/2008 2:55:14 PM

true

4/23/2008 2:56:00 PM

I guess the solution, if they're truly doing that, is vote at BOE at 8:30, then walk two blocks to Morning Times

4/23/2008 3:01:18 PM

mmk, didn't know that about the dem. primary

i was registered as a lib. for a while so i never bothered looking into it

still, i call bullshit

4/23/2008 3:03:05 PM

this is starting to sound like that time smashing pumpkins showed up around the same parts

4/23/2008 3:04:46 PM

jstpack is just confusing everyone in this thread

4/23/2008 3:05:03 PM

^ yeah, someone else should call for a confirmation of these details

I don't even know why I'm bothering to figure this stuff out since I have class and wouldn't be able to make it to any of these places before noon

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 3:06 PM. Reason : ]

4/23/2008 3:05:35 PM

Quote :

"this is starting to sound like that time smashing pumpkins showed up around the same parts"

god bless the north raleigh schoolkids

got me two tickets to see SP at the cradle with only 30 minutes of campout

because the badass who worked there printed out 150 right when the system opened

and then just sold them by hand

4/23/2008 3:08:31 PM

haha, I promise the confusion is unintentional.

This was the email I received from the writer of a blog in regards to the show:

Quote :

"hey -- just back from Morning Times, where they said they're supposed to hand out tickets at 8:30 am Thursday. they also said something about having to provide proof you've voted early & if that's the case, I'm SOL because I voted yesterday & didn't get anything but a sticker that I already threw away. oh well..."

You do NOT have to vote for Obama, whoever insinuated that, lol. They just want proof that you've voted early.

ETA --- personally, if true, I don't see how they'll enforce this as people will be lined up out the ass for these tickets
Now, whether they actually enforce this or not, who the hell knows. I was just passing along the information.

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 3:15 PM. Reason : .]

4/23/2008 3:14:33 PM

Quote :

"You do NOT have to vote for Obama, whoever insinuated that, lol. They just want proof that you've voted early."

The Obama thing was just a joke, obviously, but this is a valid question: if they want everyone at the rally to have voted already, why are they having a rally?

4/23/2008 3:22:20 PM

Exactly

4/23/2008 3:23:58 PM

I called the Obama campaign Raleigh office and spoke to the person who will actually be at Morning Times tomorrow handing out the tickets. She has no idea how many tickets they will have (way to plan), but they'll be there at 8:30 am.

And you do NOT have to vote to get a ticket -- they just want to encourage people to vote. (The Wake County Board of Elections office is about two blocks away from Morning Times, hence the location choice.) The people at Morning Times I talked to today I guess were misinformed about that.

It's gonna be a clusterfuck.

4/23/2008 3:27:38 PM

well y'all have a nice old clusterfuck time

4/23/2008 3:30:47 PM

I guess my other question is this:

When planning this on short notice, did they not realize they were coming into an indie rock hotbed?

4/23/2008 3:31:44 PM

Quote :

"The Obama thing was just a joke, obviously, but this is a valid question: if they want everyone at the rally to have voted already, why are they having a rally?"

It didn't make sense to me either, man. I'm just telling you what the people at Morning Times originally said.

I'm fairly sure they also have no idea WTF is going on. Don't shoot the messenger, lol.

4/23/2008 3:32:05 PM

we're going at 6:30 to load up on coffee and wait until tickets are handed out

and i voted yesterday and instead of a normal "I Voted" sticker you now get "I Voted Early"

pretty lame if you ask me

4/23/2008 4:02:10 PM

If they make me vote early, I'm voting for Hillary.

4/23/2008 4:08:25 PM

is anyone going to the gboro courthouse tomorrow a.m. to pick up tixxx? i'll be thurrr.

4/23/2008 5:29:30 PM

for anyone familiar with downtown,

where can i park? i don't mind parking in a pay lot, but it's gotta be closer than east egypt

4/23/2008 5:56:06 PM

there's a lot right around the corner from Raleigh Times. Corner of Hargett and .... FUCK ... can't remember the name. The corner closest to Raleigh Times ...

4/23/2008 6:24:17 PM

yeah, there's a parking deck on wilmington st

4/23/2008 7:02:00 PM

what time you fuckers getting there?

4/23/2008 9:33:08 PM

is anyone going to gboro? the table outside the courthouse on market is open at 8am. i don't even feel like i'm going to get there much earlier than that. maybe i'll get screwed over but it just doesn't seem like the huge crowd will be there at 8

4/23/2008 10:37:30 PM

i need to figure out what effort i'm willing to put in for this

ie, do i get up at 6:00 or at 7:30 am

4/23/2008 10:50:12 PM

i'm wondering if it's the type of thing where they will give away a ton of tickets, but only allow a small amount of people in.. kind of like those movie passes where they give out thousands but only the early people get in. i hope this is the case because my car is in the shop and i have no way to get to the times tomorrow morning! fuck

4/23/2008 11:14:39 PM

i really dont see them having a ton of tickets at the times tomorrow, which is why we're going at 6:30

4/23/2008 11:27:03 PM

my friends that like the arcade fire and/or aren't working need to move back to raleigh

hopefully there will be some tickets left around lunch time

4/23/2008 11:45:22 PM

^ poor boyfriend no ride to the times

4/24/2008 12:05:46 AM

got my ticket yayyy. anyone anyone anyone going to the gboro show? if you are let me knowwwww because i'm going alone so, yay.

4/24/2008 9:02:49 AM

got mine.

[Edited on April 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM. Reason : for carrboro]

4/24/2008 9:03:54 AM

was third in line at morning times. see you homos there

[Edited on April 24, 2008 at 9:06 AM. Reason : .]

4/24/2008 9:05:52 AM

damn what time did you get there? how many people were out at the times?

4/24/2008 9:11:52 AM

my buddy had a table and got there around 7:45. I guess I got there around 7:55 and just sat with him. The line pretty much doubled from 7:45-8:15

I'd say there were 60 or so people when I left. they had a whole box of tickets, so it seems as though there were plenty to go around

[Edited on April 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM. Reason : .]

4/24/2008 9:18:02 AM