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The1calledTKE 11-05-2002 01:59 PM

Waiting in line was the only annoying thing about the election. The touch screen was very easy to use. I noticed a trend at my polling station. Old white people. Not many young or minorities voting.

aephi alum 11-05-2002 02:04 PM

How many of you have touch screens vs. lever machines? My district uses the old-fashioned lever ones, but I wish we had touch screens... in my booth, the levers were slightly offset from the names, so I almost voted for the wrong candidate!

LOL @ carnation's "it's just like your microwave" :)

ZetaLuvBunny 11-05-2002 02:18 PM

People under 65 were minorities where I voted today. LOL. There were only 3 college-aged people (all female) there besides me, and the rest were a few 30 & 40-somethings & TONS of 70-somethings. I didn't vote last year b/c I was out of county at college, but I came back to my town today to vote so that next yr I can get an absentee ballot.

Tennesseans---Vote PHIL BREDESEN for Governer!!! (sp?)
Van Hillary is a weasle and a shmuck!!! (lol)

I'm registered as an Indy (independant), but for before next fall I want to change to Democrat (haha won't my grandparents & aunts & uncles think I'm a NUT!?) They're all hard-core Republicans--- my uncle paid $$$$$$$$$$ to have dinners with both Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. before. :rolleyes: Can we say... "yawn!" ??? :o

Oh yeah, and we had the touch-screen things.... interesting. I still got a lil confused, though, because this is the first time I've voted.

Eclipse 11-05-2002 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zntke711
I am about to go vote Democrat. Barnes, Cleland, and Taylor are all safe with me. The only repulican I will probaby vote for is the insurance comisinor. He has done a great job so far.
Ohhhhh zntke, I wish I had seen your post earlier. Oxindine (sp?) has been taking MAJOR money from insurance lobbist and said it was "silly" when Cohen brought it up. For that reason alone I voted against him. Since when is conflict of interest silly??

But I'm still glad you voted. I did too!! BTW...regarding minority and young folks, do you think it was a function of the time of day or where you live? My precint had lots of young (20 somethings) and minorities. of course the fact that I live in a majority African American district probably had something to do with that one, but I was glad to see the younguns out in the rain no less!!

poodleNtraining 11-05-2002 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by librasoul22
I voted! OUT WITH JEB! OUT WITH HIM!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE for the love of God let McBride win.

I feel you, I used to live donw there (briefly for a year)!!!!

ANYONE IN MARYLAND THAT VOTES FOR THAT DEVIL BOB EHRLICH IS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET!!!! http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel029.gif http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel029.gif http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel029.gif That man is CRAZY OUTTA HIS MIND!!! This is what he's gonna do to Maryland, in particular education and gun laws if he gets in http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel104.gif

DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

:D ;) :D

wreckingcrew 11-05-2002 04:56 PM

Oh i voted today.

I was one of..um....3 people at the poll. Voted for Rick Perry for governor. Rick's a great guy and he'll make a GREAT first Aggie Governor of the Great State of Texas.

Kitso
KS 361 too many Democrats on GC ;) Only kidding y'all. :D

greeklawgirl 11-05-2002 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by carnation
I couldn't figure out why the line was poking along and someone said that all the senior citizens were having issues with the touch screen voting. (Although I heard a departing woman scream to her friend in line, "You can do it, Mabel! It's just like your microwave!")
LOL--now that has got to be the funniest thing I've heard all day!

I'm going to our touch-screen center to vote after work tonight. Thank goodness the polls don't close until 8.

kddani 11-05-2002 05:12 PM

In PA- vote Rendell and Knoll!
We will FINALLY have a woman lieutenant governor, no matter if the dems or repubs when. Which is kind of sad in a way, PA's a little backwards.
If Rendell and Knoll (D) win (as they should, they've had a double digit lead the whole campaign), the first woman lt. gov. of PA will be Catherine Baker Knoll- who is also my third cousin! (my grandmother's first cousin- i think that makes her my 3rd cousin?). So I think that's pretty neat.

But if the Rep. win, Mike Fisher will be gov. His daughter is a KD, and is active in our alumnae association, also graduated from my law school two years ago and is working for a firm in Pittsburgh.

It's been a nasty gubernatorial battle in PA.....

DWAlphaGam 11-05-2002 05:17 PM

Woohoo for Democrats! :)

I'm going to vote tonight between work and school. If I recall correctly, we have touch-screens.

I live in a fairly Republican area, and there are always groups of Republican candidates that attack you as you walk in to vote. When I voted in the primary this past spring, a whole bunch of them came up to me and gave me all of these pamphlets before they bothered to ask me what party I was affiliated with. When I told them I was a Democrat, one of them said, "Well, that was a waste." I told her that I was sorry she felt that way and that she just guaranteed that I wouldn't be voting for any Republicans this fall!

ADPi~Ally 11-05-2002 05:38 PM

For Californian voters, The Governers race, Gray Davis (democrat)is the lesser of the 2 evils. Sure he's made us in debt and the energy crisis was a huge fiasco but I rather have him than Bill Simon. That guy just annoys me. And plus he's a shister. I am voting after work today and voting Democratic. Where I live, its a bunch of small town blue-blooders, so its mostly republican. I swear my family is the only people in my town that are not racist, blue blooder freaks........

Tom Earp 11-05-2002 07:29 PM

Vote, Vote, Hell Yes!

Have voted in every election since I was Old enuff! I can Bitch like hell then!

Was a Demo., now a Rep. but still vote foer the person who I think is best!

Kansas, is a Pivotal state also!

Voted:

Woman as Gov.
Black as Sec. of State
Dem. for Distrect House of Rep.

Dont vote for unaposed!

Hell, they are all Wolves in Sheeps Clothing!:( :eek: :mad:

xo_kathy 11-05-2002 07:53 PM

Just got back from voting. Not many young people, but tons of minorities. I live in Queens, NY, though, we have a HUGE minority population. In fact, I had to follow signs in Chinese and Spanish to get to the door I needed!

Always makes me feel really good to vote, though. Definitely a privalige we should not take for granted.

Oh and we had the annoying levers. I'm always afraid I'm going to vote wrong...

Silverblue 11-05-2002 09:31 PM

Go, Carnation, and go, Mabel! That is hilarious! We have early voting where I live, so I voted a couple of weeks ago. My county leads the state in the percentage of early voters, which makes me proud. I voted a split ticket, too. I vote based on the issues.

cash78mere 11-05-2002 09:54 PM

i voted democrat the whole way down!

Cluey 11-05-2002 09:54 PM

I vote according to the issues, but I voted for Jeb. How else would I keep up with what George P. was up to? Just kidding! I love the Bush family, warts and all.


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