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Did you vote in Nov 2009 elections?

Did you vote in Nov 2009 US elections?

  • Voted absentee ballot

    Votes: 4 15.4%
  • Voted early voting

    Votes: 1 3.8%
  • Voted on election day at the polls

    Votes: 8 30.8%
  • Skipped b/c lack of knowledge of candidates/issues

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • Skipped b/c I didn't care

    Votes: 5 19.2%
  • Meant to vote and missed it

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I'm not eligible to vote in US elections

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • Total voters
    26

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Who's voting, who's skipping, who meant to vote but missed it :2razz: ?
 
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Skipped b/c lack of knowledge of candidates/issues
Skipped b/c I didn't care

A combination of these two options. I rarely vote in the off-year elections. Just a bunch of stupid local issues and candidates which I don't care about enough to study.
 
Doesn't matter - some have already voted :cool:

AND......!!!!

This last weekend's withdrawal of Scuzzyfava from the New York 23rd district congressional special election HIGHLIGHTS the complete idiocy of voting early.
 
AND......!!!!

This last weekend's withdrawal of Scuzzyfava from the New York 23rd district congressional special election HIGHLIGHTS the complete idiocy of voting early.


No it doesn't. Undecideds wait, people who have already decided don't necessarily wait. I already voted, I don't regret any of my choices :).
 
The election here was an all-mail election. Makes it real easy to vote because you don't have to go anywhere. So I sent in my ballot last week. Can't wait to find out if our civil unions (WA state) will remain.
 
The election here was an all-mail election. Makes it real easy to vote because you don't have to go anywhere. So I sent in my ballot last week. Can't wait to find out if our civil unions (WA state) will remain.

Washington's system of voting is pretty interesting. Are you hoping the civil unions will remain, or be struck down? We have a gay marriage referendum question here too. It asks to repeal the recently passed law permitting gay marriage in Maine. (I voted No on repealing.)
 
Washington's system of voting is pretty interesting. Are you hoping the civil unions will remain, or be struck down? We have a gay marriage referendum question here too. It asks to repeal the recently passed law permitting gay marriage in Maine. (I voted No on repealing.)

Hoping that they will remain. It is confusing though, the legislature created the civil unions. Then a group with an initiative that sounded like it supported civil marriage got that initiative. Which really, was just to get the issue on the ballot and let the voters have veto power over the legislature. The way it's done here, a "yes" vote means "yes I support civil unions" rather than "Yes I veto civil unions". It could have been made simpler. So I voted yes, to keep civil unions.
 
Assuming I have time in between classes, I'm going to add to bbergs 18+ point victory.
 
You guys have elections? For what?

Next year, my state is going to be a total crapfest of election material.

NYC mayor, and I think maybe some ****ty local councilman or judge elections.
 
If I was a month older I'd be able to vote. Pity too, because our state is one of the only 2 with an actual gubernatorial election this year.

A combination of these two options. I rarely vote in the off-year elections. Just a bunch of stupid local issues and candidates which I don't care about enough to study.

Local issues are, or at least ought to be, more important to daily life than national issues....
 
I've voted in every election since I was old enough to. Still amused by folks who don't vote who show up at political discussion forums and have comments to boot.
 
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Local issues are, or at least ought to be, more important to daily life than national issues....

Depends on the area. In NYC, my choice for most local elections are between the democrat who will win by 65 points and the 3rd party candidate who might well be a homeless person.
 
I've voted in every election since I was old enough to. Still amused by folks who don't vote who show up at political discussion forums and have comments to boot.

Oh? Are all these issues reliant on electoral participation? I avoid it on account of its uselessness, not my lack of thoughts/sentiments on political issues. :shrug:
 
Oh? Are all these issues reliant on electoral participation? I avoid it on account of its uselessness, not my lack of thoughts/sentiments on political issues. :shrug:
Which issues do you refer to by "all of these issues" and tell me, aside from internet forums what voice do you by definition have, that matter in any substantive way, otherwise?
 
I've voted in every election since I was old enough to. Still amused by folks who don't vote who show up at political discussion forums and have comments to boot.

It's kind of hard to find a political candidate I agree with.
 
It's kind of hard to find a political candidate I agree with.
I've found some I agree with on some issues, but as I've grown older I realize that there will never be *one* that is a perfect match. I also must sadly state that every election I have voted in came down to a matter of the 'lesser of two evils' for me. Most people I know who vote, regardless of ideology, feel the same way.:(
 
Local issues are, or at least ought to be, more important to daily life than national issues....

Ya, but the candidates are all pretty interchangeable. At the local level, it's rarely a matter of ideology...just competence. And that's hard to gauge, unless you know the candidates personally (or unless they're the incumbent).

With that said, I'm a big fan of Adrian Fenty and will definitely vote to reelect him as our mayor next year.
 
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Which issues do you refer to by "all of these issues" and tell me, aside from internet forums what voice do you by definition have, that matter in any substantive way, otherwise?

The standard political issues that are discussed on the board, such as economic issues. I, as with most people on this board, have no substantive voice. A vote that doesn't matter one way or the other and is primarily useful for the exercise you get walking to the polling station hardly constitutes a "voice" of any sort.
 
I will be voting later today. I have never missed voting in an election since I came of age. I feel it to be a civic duty. I feel those that do not vote have no right to complain.
 
I will be voting later today. I have never missed voting in an election since I came of age. I feel it to be a civic duty. I feel those that do not vote have no right to complain.
Yes and even though I believe we might be diametrically opposed on political issues, I agree with you here!
 
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