Your voting experience

[4yourpleasureiam]

Had my voter registration card out and ready, looked at my photo I.D.s and thought, drivers lic. no to humdrum, Retired Army I.D. nice but no finaly setted on my V.A. card. Pulled my cowboy hat low and walked in and said good morning, nice to see you, signed on the dotted line after having I.D. checked voted correctly thanked the ladies and stepped out into a beautiful rainy day. I love being asked my name by a lady hat knew me the day I was born and asked for I.D. by old family friends that I eat Sunday breakfast with. Gives me a feeling of being American in America.

 

[CandiCame]

I walked and chatted with all the poll workers; all of whom I've known since long before the Dead Sea ever became ill, voted and chatted with various friends and neighbors on my way out of the polling place.

I had to do that too, even tho I hate all of them. I dislike small towns. "Let's make this 5min task take an hour because everyone wants to make sure you saw their Facebook update about the particularly good whopper they had for lunch yesterday."

 

[NickiC]

The #BlockTheVote initiative seems do be doing its job here in Houston. Story after story about folks being turned away from the polls. Even some white folks!

Blocking the vote is stupid. Felons come in all colors. Who made that a priority?

 

[NickiC]

I am an early voter. Easy and good

 

[NickiC]

I keep my stickers. I am proud to vote

 

[CandiCame]

I keep my stickers. I am proud to vote

I WANT A STICKER THIS IS BULLSHIT!

My brother lives in Lexington; he got a sticker and LOST it like a DUMBASS! I'd have worn it all day.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I had to do that too, even tho I hate all of them. I dislike small towns. "Let's make this 5min task take an hour because everyone wants to make sure you saw their Facebook update about the particularly good whopper they had for lunch yesterday."

I wish you had had a more positive experience. I have many good memories of the people and families of the people I spoke with today. Without exception, they are kind loving people. But i understand that had I had a more dysfunctional upbringing, I might feel differently about my neighbors.

 

[Que]

Blocking the vote is stupid. Felons come in all colors. Who made that a priority?

Democrats made it a priority. Seems racist if you ask me. Just like when they used to say that calls for welfare reform were done to "hurt blacks" even though more whites receive assistance than blacks.

 

[Tryharder62]

I'm from a small town too. Just walked up to the table and signed my name and voted. No ID required.

 

[CandiCame]

I wish you had had a more positive experience. I have many good memories of the people and families of the people I spoke with today. Without exception, they are kind loving people. But i understand that had I had a more dysfunctional upbringing, I might feel differently about my neighbors.

Yeah. Mine are all racist. And make fun of my child. And make me want to punch them in the fucking face. Or want to buy drugs from me even tho I made my whole 'going through rehab and coming clean" thing REALLY public. The logic being, "I know your granny just broke her hip. I know you got pain pills."

Yeah. I do. For my fucking grandma and her new hip. Not for you. Rural people aren't quirky. They're just horrible.

 

[CandiCame]

I'm from a small town too. Just walked up to the table and signed my name and voted. No ID required.

They didn't ask for my ID but they did my gfs. So. Just gonna present that information on it's face without further comment and leave it up to the viewer to interpret.

 

[ElijaRDC]

My boyfriend and I went around 2:30 and there were a couple people in booths when we arrived, and several waiting in line when we left.

About what I expected, I guess, being that it was a mid-term election and that we live in a sparsely-populated area.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Same as almost every election. I get my ballot and note the little box that allows me to vote a straight Republican or Democratic ticket. I can never fill that box in. I just can't do it.

Then I go and vote for all my party candidates individually. I don't know who I think I'm fooling, but I do this virtually every time.

Then I turn the ballot over to vote the backside, and there are literally about 50 (maybe more) civil and criminal judicial district elections where candidates, by law, run unaffiliated. Not that it matters. What would identify the political affiliation of a judge if you sat in his or her courtroom every day and watched them administer legal procedures in a trial or various hearings?

Yet arguably, these people preside over that portion of the law that most directly affect the citizenry, or at least those who come before them as plaintiffs or defendants.

And yet I can't cast a vote reflecting even a hint of intelligent choice because I know not a single verifiable fact about any one of them. So I cast no votes for them.

And it makes me a bit sad every time.

 

[Que]

Same as almost every election. I get my ballot and note the little box that allows me to vote a straight Republican or Democratic ticket. I can never fill that box in. I just can't do it.

Then I go and vote for all my party candidates individually. I don't know who I think I'm fooling, but I do this virtually every time.

Then I turn the ballot over to vote the backside, and there are literally about 50 (maybe more) civil and criminal judicial district elections where candidates, by law, run unaffiliated. Not that it matters. What would identify the political affiliation of a judge if you sat in his or her courtroom every day and watched them administer legal procedures in a trial or various hearings?

Yet arguably, these people preside over that portion of the law that most directly affect the citizenry, or at least those who come before them as plaintiffs or defendants.

And yet I can't cast a vote reflecting even a hint of intelligent choice because I know not a single verifiable fact about any one of them. So I cast no votes for them.

And it makes me a bit sad every time.

Yours is the correct approach, if you do not know about a judge let those that do decide the matter.

I take a curmudeonly approach. Unless I know that one of the judges is very much worthy of being retained I vote out for all of them on the (perhaps irresponsible) theory that most people vote to retain them if they have no idea.

 

[thør]

Yours is the correct approach, if you do not know about a judge let those that do decide the matter.

I take a curmudeonly approach. Unless I know that one of the judges is very much worthy of being retained I vote out for all of them on the (perhaps irresponsible) theory that most people vote to retain them if they have no idea.

No judicial council to make recommendations?

 

[Que]

No judicial council to make recommendations?

Staffed by lawyers that are beholden to said judges and went to law school with said judges.

By the time they get around to recommending ANY of them not be retained the guy is usually already in jail.

 

[Libsam]

Went last week, saw a friend who works in the voters registrars office. He told me his son recently jumped off the roof of their shed and twisted his ankle, his sister dared him to do it. I snickered and stopped myself upon realizing that may not have been the most appropriate response, but he laughed too, so it was all good. Then a joke was cracked about vidya games being a safer and cheaper pastime.

Other than that, the place was empty and I had to show ID.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Yours is the correct approach, if you do not know about a judge let those that do decide the matter.

I take a curmudeonly approach. Unless I know that one of the judges is very much worthy of being retained I vote out for all of them on the (perhaps irresponsible) theory that most people vote to retain them if they have no idea.

Except in most of the judicial races here, the candidates DO run opposed, just not party affiliated, so the option of voting "to retain or not to retain" does not exist. And among the verifiable facts I do not know is which one of these suckers is the incumbent!!

You can't get much more electorally ignorant than that!

 

[RjThoughts]

Except in most of the judicial races here, the candidates DO run opposed, just not party affiliated, so the option of voting "to retain or not to retain" does not exist. And among the verifiable facts I do not know is which one of these suckers is the incumbent!!

You can't get much more electorally ignorant than that!

We had one person run opposed last night, for a county judge position. The Republican slot for the position was open, but every other one had his name in it. He wasn't the incumbent, but he was the only qualified person to put their hat in the ring for it. The GOP couldn't find anyone to run.

 

[Amberchgo]

No judicial council to make recommendations?

In Illinois, the same council recommended the voters re-elect Blago.

 

[Wrong Element]

Same as almost every election. I get my ballot and note the little box that allows me to vote a straight Republican or Democratic ticket. I can never fill that box in. I just can't do it.

I have never lived any place that gave that option. One always hears that there are fewer ticket-splitters today than there were 20-30 years ago, but it's hard for me to imagine any state that didn't already allow automatic straight ticket voting to suddenly decide to adopt it. I suspect most people would find it offensive and enabling mindlessness, even if that's how they tend to vote themselves.

I have the same issue when it comes to voting party line: the judicial elections. I typically don't vote against incumbent judges unless they seem to have gotten on the wrong side of the lawyers who know them best. Also, there are plenty of people who want to serve but aren't all that ideological. In places where one party dominates, the path of least resistance for judicial candidates can simply be to align yourself with the majority. For example, if I see someone running for judge with the GOP endorsement, I'm not necessarily going to assume they are a climate change denier or a believer in supply side.

 

[doowdniw]

I voted early (last week). Showed my ID, signed my name, and was in and out in a few minutes. No lines.