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Title: I voted. Have you?
Post by: johnnyroadglide on May 17, 2011, 08:08:02 AM
Hello all. Back after a little bit of R&R that I badly needed. I went to my local polling place this morning and I swear I always get the slowest poll worker in the building. It took her longer to find my name on the list as she s-l-o-w-l-y leafed through the pages, then it did for me to actually make my five selections. I didn't even bother sitting down as it took less than a minute. I hope everyone gets out there today.

jrg
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: Jumpinjack on May 17, 2011, 08:15:53 AM
We voted early but urge all the not-yet voters to get to the polls.
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Post by: wsansewjs on May 17, 2011, 08:16:42 AM
I voted immediately on the day I got my absentee ballot which is Monday after they send out in the mail. Brown without any hestitation and in a heartbeat.

-Josh
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)
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Post by: Cliffs_Daughter on May 17, 2011, 09:01:28 AM
We voted last week at the SOE office.

Today precinct 7T occupies my workplace, so I'm laying low. Can't even wear so much as a button.
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Post by: JeffreyS on May 17, 2011, 09:12:48 AM
I would encourage you all to post this on your facebook page. The people here will be voting.
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Post by: L.P. Hovercraft on May 17, 2011, 10:33:46 AM
Bump.

I voted in precinct 14T at the Lutheran church on McDuff this morning a little before 9--just a few people in line before me.
My wife voted about an hour earlier and spotted both Jill Dame and Jim Love out in the 'hood waving signs.
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Post by: urbanlibertarian on May 17, 2011, 10:55:40 AM
Voted early.  And often.  ;D
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Post by: sheclown on May 17, 2011, 11:23:27 AM
(http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab165/sheclown/votinghand.jpg)
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Post by: Doctor_K on May 17, 2011, 11:27:18 AM
Wife and I are voting after work!
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Post by: north miami on May 17, 2011, 11:44:25 AM

That's a yepper- early vote Saturday 14th at the 103rd st.location.Competent,professional staff,enough voter turnout there was a wait in line......wonderful!
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!
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Post by: Debbie Thompson on May 17, 2011, 12:15:55 PM
Absolutely!  My son and I both voted this morning.
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Post by: danem on May 17, 2011, 12:26:54 PM
Early-voted 2 Mondays ago. I only have this forum to thank for getting me so interested in this election.
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)
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Post by: hightowerlover on May 17, 2011, 12:40:32 PM
I didn't vote
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Post by: mtraininjax on May 17, 2011, 12:54:50 PM
Voted at 14H at lunch time.
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Post by: Bativac on May 17, 2011, 01:22:36 PM
Still haven't voted... still haven't decided. Working a 12 hour shift that ends at 6:15 so I'll still have plenty of time at the end of the day... I guess I'll make up my mind on my way to the polling place.

I have a strong case of that "voter apathy" they're always talking about. I am strongly apathetic. That makes sense, right?
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 03:16:13 PM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)

You scoundrel!
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 03:18:29 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 03:16:13 PM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)

You scoundrel!

Mea Culpa... :)
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 03:29:33 PM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 03:18:29 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 03:16:13 PM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)

You scoundrel!

Mea Culpa... :)

Backatcha I missed the homework part of your original post.
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: Jimmy on May 17, 2011, 03:39:07 PM
Grandma just sent word from 11P - another Alvin Brown voter in Maxville!  :)
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Post by: ChriswUfGator on May 17, 2011, 03:58:17 PM
Quote from: mtraininjax on May 17, 2011, 12:54:50 PM
Voted at 14H at lunch time.

Damn!
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: L.P. Hovercraft on May 17, 2011, 03:58:51 PM
Quote from: Bativac on May 17, 2011, 01:22:36 PM
Still haven't voted... still haven't decided. Working a 12 hour shift that ends at 6:15 so I'll still have plenty of time at the end of the day... I guess I'll make up my mind on my way to the polling place.

I have a strong case of that "voter apathy" they're always talking about. I am strongly apathetic. That makes sense, right?

Hey Bativac,
I definitely understand feeling that way, but come on brother: jump off that fence!
You've got a 50/50 chance (or worse, depending on who's counting the votes) that the candidate you pick won't make it anyway, so at least go down fighting and with a clear conscience that you fought on the side of the angels.  If your guy wins, great!  If not, start organizing for the next election.


Which Side Are You On?
A Song by Florence Patton Reese

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I’ll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell

Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner
And I’m a miner’s son
And I’ll stick with the union
Till every battle’s won

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You’ll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair

Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Don’t scab for the bosses
Don’t listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance
Unless we organize

Notes:
Pete Seeger says in an introduction to “Which Side Are You On?”:


Maybe the most famous song it was ever my privilege to know was the one
written by Mrs. Florence Reece. Her husband Sam was an organizer in that
“bloody” strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1932.
They got word that the company gun-thugs were out to kill him, and he got
out of his house, I think out the back door, just before they arrived.
And Mrs. Reece said they stuck their guns into the closets, into the beds, even
into the piles of dirty linen.
One of her two little girls started crying and one of the men said “What are
you crying for? We’re not after you we’re after your old man.”
After they had gone she felt so outraged she tore a calendar off the wall and on
the back of it wrote the words and put them to the tune of an old hard-shelled
Baptist hymn tune, although come to think of it the hymn tune used an old
English ballad melody.
And her two little girls used to go singing it in the union halls.”
Title: Re: I voted. Have you?
Post by: mtraininjax on May 17, 2011, 03:59:09 PM
QuoteVoted at 14H at lunch time.

Damn!

Chris - I even Foursquared it in your honor!
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Post by: Timkin on May 17, 2011, 04:24:26 PM
+13 for Alvin
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Post by: jcjohnpaint on May 17, 2011, 04:59:16 PM
morning vote Brown of course
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Post by: JaxNative68 on May 17, 2011, 05:57:41 PM
+/- ?
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Post by: Doctor_K on May 17, 2011, 07:16:33 PM
2 more votes for Alvin at the 04T district!
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Post by: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 07:20:50 PM
Vote cast... 1 more for the leader of chipmunks.
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