The Official "I Voted!" Thread

[BonosSaint]

I think you have to be a resident of PA and maybe a citizen. I didn't want to totally throw my vote away Oh, wait. Santorum doesn't have a primary home in Pennsylvania. Shit, I should have voted for Neil.

(I only kick kittens when I'm listening to Santorum commercials)

 

[WildHoneyAlways]

I voted using a touch screen for the first time.

All Democrats for me.

 

[80sU2isBest]

YES to make it harder for the gov't to seize private property, and YES for more money to adjust teachers' pensions for inflation.

I definitely agree with you on these.

 

[dazzledbylight]

I voted using a touch screen for the first time.

All Democrats for me.

.....was it..............scary?!
been hearing about all their problems .......natural & UNnatural...since 2000.

voted
I've hardly ever missed a vote, even if sometimes i don't know enough [ usually it's the judges i know least about] to vote for a particial office, or sometimes can't decide on a initiative/article etc.

THANK GOODNESS, there was NOT a single initiative/article etc to WORRY over. we have enough to think about in the broad picture, right now.!

I've voted [& campaigned for] for 2 Republicans in my entire{so far} life, almost always vote/campaign for Democratic Party, in reccent years split my tix/same people but on the Working Families Party {nyc}.

i slipped some flyers under my neighbors apartmentts about HIGH TURNOUT in order for the Dems to win.

And put up some "Voting Problems?-call # ___ ______ "flyers near my local polling place.

and bought PTA yummy bake sale goodies too! I'm usually late so there are no goodies left. SO i contributed to two fgood causes today!

 

[Ormus]

I voted this morning. Made sure that I couldn't miss out.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I voted using a touch screen for the first time.

All Democrats for me.

I wish I had the chance to use one of those. Hopefully in the next election.

 

[MissMoo]

Voted this am. No touch screen luckily!

 

[Mr. BAW]

We do Absentee ballot...too lazy to drive around the block....

 

[thebadger]

voted. all democrat...ciao santorum

 

[Varitek]

Voted this morning....number twenty two in my precinct.

And I did not vote for a single major party candidate.

Not sure where in MA you live but all the unopposed downballot races - did you blank them or write in? And what no vote for Kennedy?

 

[Varitek]

I wish I had the chance to use one of those. Hopefully in the next election.

Why, you don't like having your vote counted?

 

[redhotswami]

Absentee ballot is how I roll

 

[Lila64]

Definitely voted!

Strangest ballot I've ever seen. And large. You had to draw a line to connect an arrow to your choice. I walked into the book expecting machinery, and all that was there was a black pen. At first I thought I had a bad booth

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

voted about a half hour before the polls closed.

 

[sulawesigirl4]

I voted weeks ago. I'm in India now watching the results. This may be the first time in my life where it looks like my vote might actually matter. Go Webb!

Why didn't I get a sticker?

 

[Ormus]

Not sure where in MA you live but all the unopposed downballot races - did you blank them or write in? And what no vote for Kennedy?

MA is a funny place. In most ways, elections are so uncompetitive that it doesn't matter if you vote for third-party candidates. The Democrats will handily win, no matter what.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I really liked this letter to the editor that I read in the paper this morning. Now that's appreciating the right to vote.

November 8, 2006

I just couldn't stay at home. I needed to vote. The only problem was that my polling place, in Maryland, was hundreds of miles from my Brookline apartment. I am an absent-minded law student who forgot to request my absentee ballot. I tried to content myself by calling others and encouraging them to vote. I tried to console myself with the fact that my thoughts had at least been registered for the primaries.

But when I woke up Monday and saw that my blue state had turned purple, I knew I had to fly home. I had come to law school to change things; it was my incubation period, my place to learn the basics so that one day I could work to fix all that I see wrong today. In the throes of classes and exams I had forgotten the most important reason for going to school .

As the first American citizen in my family, the ballot is especially profound for me. As I searched for cheap plane tickets , I felt a wave of happiness that I was not just one of the nameless complacent, that I had not totally forgotten the bigger picture. And so I came home, voted, and remembered.

 

[U2democrat]

I voted on Saturday absentee

 

[Irvine511]

i voted absentee last week.

 

[skjuls]

I voted yesterday!

 

[Bonochick]

I voted...first time ever......which is bad, since I'm 24...

 

[Doozer61]

i voted but i didn't pick the right ones

 

[starsgoblue]

Me. Wearing my One Campaign shirt.

 

[daygloeyes2]

I voted in my first election yesterday!

 

[redhotswami]

I wish they sent I Voted stickers with the absentee ballots.

 

[kimby]

Voted

 

[Golightly Grrl]

Yep, I voted. The polls were busy but I was in and out within ten minutes. It helped that I was already registered.

I'm happy that Governor Doyle and Senator Kohl were re-elected, but I'm rather upset that the amendment on banning gay marriage went through.