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U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience?
Today is Election Day in the U.S., and polls are open even in Hawaii now. The current Slashdot poll gives a snapshot of how many readers have voted or plan to vote; more rigorous and wide-based polls are easy to find. If you're taking part in today's election, what have you found? Did you or will you vote electronically, or on paper? How long did you wait to vote? Did you vote weeks ago by mail? How much time did you put into making your choices? It would be helpful if in comments you start the subject of your post with your 2-letter state abbreviation, like this: "TX - About to go get in line to push some buttons."
"I said oh well, not like voting matters anyhow due to electoral college bullshit and went home"
I'm so glad you didn't vote. Uneducated people shouldn't vote.
maybe get Gary Johnson above 5%? It will change the national discourse even if you don't agree with him 100%.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
"I said oh well, not like voting matters anyhow due to electoral college bullshit and went home"
I'm so glad you didn't vote. Uneducated people shouldn't vote.
How is that any different then educated people not voting?
Be seeing you...
Waited 15 minutes in line and then voted electronically on a diebold machine with no apparent problems.
That's the biggest issue with those machines: Any problems with them aren't apparent.
Just because he's wrong doesn't mean the poll worker wasn't also wrong. Happens all the time.
Learn to love Alaska
President isn't the only position, local, state and congressional positions matter just as much.
Get your ass out and vote for the sake of your country!
You can't be bothered to look up referendums and local races, so I can't be bothered to do it for you, but often there's school funding bonds and school boards and stuff like that to vote for where you might have an impact even if, as you say, the presidential portion of the ballot is, for your location, utterly meaningless.
If it is meaningless, I think you should vote Johnson like I'm going to. You've obviously got nothing to lose. I respect the decision, although disagree, with a friend who's voting for the Green Party candidate. Anybody's better than the D's and the R's so any vote for someone other than D or R is always good vote.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
live with him for 4x more years ruining your country.
LOL I'm not voting for the guy, but the R party really shot themselves in their foot by spending 4.5 years of every village idiot emailing and FB and G+ stuff about, sure, the kenyan marxist muslim hasn't grabbed our guns and sent in the UN troops YET, but I heard next week he's gonna start... and 200 odd weeks of the crying wolf stuff absolutely makes them a laughingstock. I suspect if "O" wins we'll have to suffer thru another 200 weeks of weekly emails about how "O" is gonna open up the UN concentration camps for gun owners starting "next week".
He's got issues... He's just a lapdog of the 1% banking elite, they say "jump, O" and he says "how high, master?". His R opponent is even worse being a corrupt 1%er himself. So, the devil's tame quisling lapdog, or the devil himself? I'll vote Johnson instead.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Every citizen has the right to vote, but it carries the responsibility of educating yourself on the candidates/propositions. Voting without knowing what you're voting for is foolish. At best it merely deflates the value of an informed voter (random selection) and at worst you can unwittingly sway an election against your interests (likely since many ballot propositions are deceivingly worded).
Recommending that others should vote, just to "exercise their right" isn't a noble cause and doesn't help produce a more representative government. Instead, get people to learn what's on the ballot and why they should vote, preferably with minimal personal bias.
Knowledge Brings Fear
One and a half hour?!? In a developed country, that has had democracy for more than two hundred years?
How is this even remotely acceptable in what is supposedly a bastion of democracy?