Did you vote?

[ ] Yes
[ ] Not yet, but I intend to
[ ] No, and I do not intend to
[ ] Other (please explain in post)

10/28/2010 10:06:04 PM

I vote on Election Day.

10/28/2010 10:11:14 PM

NEVAR AGAINS

10/28/2010 10:11:17 PM

I vote on election day.

It's a whole thing that involves me eating food.

10/28/2010 10:14:42 PM

I have voted, so right now, by my count we are at:

1 - Yes
2 - Not yet, but I intend to
1 - No, and I do not intend to
0 - Other (please explain in post)

10/28/2010 10:31:13 PM

I changed my voter registration to FL when I lived there, and kept it when I left (no state income tax, it's a politically influential state, and I intend to return as soon as I can, anyway). Therefore, I have to vote absentee.

However, I probably won't even bother. I don't even know if I can get a ballot and do it at this point. At any rate, the last few elections have been so frustrating that I don't even know if it's worth the effort. I usually spend hours reading up on dozens of candidates, and then in the end, vote for a handful of them and either abstain or (if able), write in "no confidence" for the rest of them.

Basically, I'm pretty much politically homeless, and finding that tiny minority of candidates whom I'm willing to vote for is a case where the juice isn't really worth the squeeze.

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 10:49 PM. Reason : so probably "No, and don't intend to", although I've been known to change my mind at the last minute]

10/28/2010 10:48:13 PM

I vote on Election Day.

10/28/2010 11:27:46 PM

about 55,000 have voted early in wake county so far. voting ends at sat at 1

10/28/2010 11:39:05 PM

I voted.

10/28/2010 11:48:12 PM

Not yet, but I intend to

10/29/2010 1:16:33 AM

voted

10/29/2010 1:23:37 AM

Quote :

"It's a whole thing that involves me eating food."

Huh?

10/29/2010 1:27:34 AM

3 - Yes
4 - Not yet, but I intend to
1 - No, and I do not intend to
1 - Other (please explain in post) (put duke's here, since it was a possibility but not as likely)

So far its breaking towards having voted, or will vote on election day. Not surprising given the context of the soap box. I wonder what the responses would be in the Chit Chat?

10/29/2010 1:45:37 AM

i'm voting this afternoon because i'm too busy on the 2nd

while we're talking about it, isn't there some law that says your employer has to allow you time to vote during the workday? not that i'm having trouble with it or anything (i pretty much leave and do whatever i want, as long as i get my work done), but i'm curious

10/29/2010 7:46:07 AM

no, and I dont intend to

10/29/2010 8:07:28 AM

^Care to share why? (Only if you want to)

Even if you don't care about any candidates messages, you could throw a vote the Libertarian's way, and help their chances for ballot access in the future. Or write in Richard Weir (Green Party).

Building the 3rd parties is a useful exercise even if you disagree with the current main parties completely.

10/29/2010 8:16:04 AM

Yes--voted yesterday. But they never even asked for my drivers license, just my name. So, I may go vote for all my neighbors this afternoon .

10/29/2010 9:26:14 AM

Let us know how that works out for you.

10/29/2010 9:45:11 AM

I'm not going to vote like all the conformists.

10/29/2010 9:51:08 AM

Not going to vote?

aph319:

Quote :

"For every one who was on the edge of their seats, I voted today."

Your statement in another thread is what inspired me to start this thread, and see how many tdubbers have voted.

[Edited on October 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM. Reason : .]

10/29/2010 9:54:56 AM

Not yet, but I'm gonna.

10/29/2010 10:13:03 AM

i'll vote straight ticket

i'll flip a coin before going in to figure out which one, though

10/29/2010 10:15:40 AM

Quote :

"Care to share why?"

Sure

Someone said that 55,000 people had already voted in Wake. If I vote that means my vote will count as 1/55,000 or about a .002% of a say in who is elected. For me, that rounds to zero. That percentage is easily smaller than the error that gets reported when the news is projecting who won (before all the votes are actually counted)

Id be better off giving money to the candidates or special interests that I support so they could run effective campaigns to convince people to vote the way I want. But I dont really have enough money for this to be effective either.

I see your point about third parties and I have done that in the past. But still felt like it was barely worth the time.


but the crux is that I am registered in a different county than where I currently reside and didn't take the time to get an absentee ballot like I have in the past. Its really my own fault.



Besides what I'll probably do is tell my boss I'm going to vote and instead go chill in the park near where I work for a few hours. Better use of my time IMO.




[Edited on October 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM. Reason : .]

10/29/2010 10:45:50 AM

Quote :

"Not surprising given the context of the soap box"

Yeah, you'd think that someone as politically minded as me wouldn't be one to not vote. It's not even like my views are way out there, either. I just got tired of voting for the least terrible candidate in every race, and decided that I wouldn't vote for anyone anymore unless they're at least tolerable.

Quote :

"Even if you don't care about any candidates messages, you could throw a vote the Libertarian's way, and help their chances for ballot access in the future. Or write in Richard Weir (Green Party). "

I vote for Libertarian candidates sometimes, but by and large, they're way too fucking crazy for me to support.

Dems: won't keep their fucking hands out of people's bank accounts

GOP: Makes everyone's business their business; Jesus party; spend just as much as Dems (but at least inflation is a flat tax in a sense)

Libertarians: Way too fucking crazy most of the time. Most have not an ounce of pragmatism.

Greens: Only one redeeming quality, and that's that they take votes from Democrats sometimes. Otherwise, bottom of the barrel.

10/29/2010 1:11:16 PM

Quote :

"i'll vote straight ticket i'll flip a coin before going in to figure out which one, though"

Interesting...This might explain a lot if everyone voted this way. If you vote 3rd party when the coin lands on edge, then the statistics start to make sense.

10/29/2010 2:22:55 PM

10/29/2010 3:04:38 PM

voted today

10/29/2010 5:00:09 PM

66k voted as of the end of the day. early voting lines are pretty long these last 2 days. tomorrow 10am-1pm is your last chance to vote early.

10/29/2010 8:33:38 PM

Yes, I voted yesterday.

10/30/2010 12:33:32 PM

Florida Absentee ballot sent from Oahu two weeks ago.

10/30/2010 1:55:15 PM

Turned away from the voting place today

10/30/2010 2:12:29 PM

If I counted right:

7 - Yes
6 - Not yet, but I intend to
2 - No, and I do not intend to
1 - Other

10/30/2010 2:13:54 PM

Im afraid that voting a straight republican ticket would land me on Obama's terror watch list. Might be safer to stay home under this regime.

10/31/2010 12:07:35 PM

Voted, but only voted in 6 races (not counting my write in for myself and Ron Paul as Wake County Soil and Water District Supervisors). Also voted against the Constitutional amendment.

I REALLY wish that they would take away the straight party option, and instead add a "none of the above" in to each race. That way, when we get stuck with a bunch of terrible candidates, they're forced to redraw some new ones. There were way too many shitty candidates on nearly all of the races...

10/31/2010 12:18:43 PM

I intend to vote on election day. That increases the odds that a reporter will ask me for a quote, and I offer something so brilliant that I end up in a cushy job as a talking head on a 24 hour news network.

10/31/2010 7:15:08 PM

Nope and don't plan to.

10/31/2010 9:48:53 PM

Yep, Absentee sent in on Friday.

My family has a standing rule of "If you didn't vote keep your mouth shut."

10/31/2010 9:49:56 PM

all these crazies will be elected.....it will just be 1994 all over again, and in 6 years all (or most) will be gone.....we are in that cycle again....starting all over....



[Edited on October 31, 2010 at 9:55 PM. Reason : w]

10/31/2010 9:53:49 PM

^^ that's a false dichotomy

...and you can change mine to "No, and don't plan to."


It's not that I'm making some statement by not voting...it's just that I didn't get around to requesting an absentee ballot, due to the fact that I don't really view it as worth it while to go through that trouble, plus spending hours researching the candidates and their positions, only to find that all but a small handful of them are too intolerable to vote for.

[Edited on October 31, 2010 at 11:33 PM. Reason : but I will hold my nose and pull for GOP victories]

10/31/2010 11:33:29 PM

I'm voting Tuesday

11/1/2010 12:15:07 AM

I'll vote, not that it will make a bit of difference since the majority of the population is too fucking stupid to realize that they're picking between two equally shitty sides of the same coin.

11/1/2010 1:21:42 AM

18 - Voters
4 - Non-Voters

11/1/2010 5:42:59 AM

My absentee ballot went in the mail last week.

11/1/2010 3:55:10 PM

Even though my district is bluer than the heavens above thus rendering my vote worthless regardless of which way I swing, I will vote regardless.

[ ] Yes
[X] Not yet, but I intend to
[ ] No, and I do not intend to
[ ] Other (please explain in post)

11/1/2010 4:01:29 PM

yes

11/2/2010 10:02:25 AM

Voted this morning in VA's 8th district, THE FIGHTIN' 8TH!

11/2/2010 10:10:45 AM

Yes

11/2/2010 10:14:50 AM

Yes I did even though where I am it is purely symbolic.

11/2/2010 10:47:48 AM

Yes.


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11/2/2010 10:50:11 AM

Where's My Fucking Polling Place?

http://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

11/2/2010 10:50:47 AM