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Grex > Agora35 > #139: Election Day! The "I Voted" Item | |
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bruin
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response 25 of 59:
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Nov 7 23:04 UTC 2000 |
BTW, I voted at Slauson Middle School, not Miller Manor.
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jep
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response 26 of 59:
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Nov 7 23:42 UTC 2000 |
I voted at the Clinton Township Hall (Lenawee County) at around 10:00.
There was only a very short line.
USA Today is reporting that Bush is projected to win Kentucky and
Indiana, total electoral votes 20. He was expected to win both states,
and USA Today thinks he has done so.
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tpryan
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response 27 of 59:
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Nov 7 23:45 UTC 2000 |
I voted this morning before work. I got ballot number 42, but
in Pittsfield Twp precinct 5, there are the A, B & C ballots due to
the carve up of various reresentative districts. Praking lot was full,
I was amoung those who created parking spaces.
I voted for Gridlock. Dem Pres, Rep Senator and Represenative.
Voted against incumbent MI Supreme Court Justi. Filled in the magic
marker oval for one race where the person was listed as 'no party
affiliation'.
It is good to see a people and machine readable ballot. Not only
that, the box that takes in the ballots will spit out a soiled ballot
(ie, voting for four when you need to vote for only three).
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abc
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response 28 of 59:
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Nov 8 00:23 UTC 2000 |
Voted by absentee ballot some time ago.
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mdw
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response 29 of 59:
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Nov 8 00:27 UTC 2000 |
I voted at 3:30p. I bicycled in, to avoid any possible parking lot jam
and for the exercise. There was a very short line - I had to wait for
the two people at the first table to finish filling out their address
forms. After that there was no waiting. The voting machines were the
"punch the paper ballot" style, with a metal box to collect the
completed ballots.
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gull
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response 30 of 59:
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Nov 8 00:29 UTC 2000 |
Re #17: A few states have experimented with on-line computer voting. There
are some big problems, though. One of the worst is that in most cases they
contracted a private company to handle the voting, but had no way to check
up on the company and see if they were being honest. It raises big privacy
and vote tampering issues.
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senna
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response 31 of 59:
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Nov 8 03:48 UTC 2000 |
I voted between 4 and 5. It took me perhaps 20 minutes, nothing too bad.
My precinct voted in the Washtenaw Intermediate School District building,
which housed both precincts 7 and 8 in Scio Township. Precinct 7, which was
mine, had several tables for applications and ballots, and perhaps 10 or 12
booths. Precinct 8 had one table and one booth. The sheet on the ballot
table explained why: compared with the 2200 plus in my precinct, the 8th has
all of 75 voters.
While the booths had attached punchers, we used scantron-like sheets with
ovals to blacken. I felt like I was taking a test. "Let's see, supreme
court.... what's the correct answer, again?" Further facilitating this image
was my use of a cheat-sheet assembled before I left that reminded me of
everyone that I had decided to vote for.
Can someone explain to me whether or not Scott Wojak is a hoax? He favors
requisite bilingual education by 2008 and encourages industrial-grade hemp
production. Is this a joke?
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bru
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response 32 of 59:
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Nov 8 04:39 UTC 2000 |
we voted in precinct 1-9 at Clague Middle school in ann arbor at about
4:00p.m. We didn't get any cookies. I split my ticket. When we voted
roughly 60% of our precinct had already voted.
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scg
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response 33 of 59:
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Nov 8 05:48 UTC 2000 |
I voted at Martin Luther King Junior High School (which is a middle school,
a couple blocks from my apartment), around 5 pm. There was one person in
front of me in line. I only had to wait a minute to get up to the table.
Then they couldn't find my name on the list. I told them when I had
registered, and they found me on the "special" list, which had only four names
on it, presumably the people in the precinct who had registered at the last
minute. I punched holes in a paper ballot, which I was then told to hand to
an election worker, who put it in a folder.
I got my sample ballot and election instructions in the mail today.
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birdy
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response 34 of 59:
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Nov 8 05:54 UTC 2000 |
Jason and I voted in Ypsi early early this morning. We got there at 7:10 and
there was already a line. Yay! =) We had the punchy things with the
scantron looking sheets. I'd used those in 1996, so it was easy. We got
stickers, and I wore mine at work all evening.
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janc
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response 35 of 59:
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Nov 8 07:10 UTC 2000 |
Valerie and I voted around 9:10. Or at least, we got in line then. Took
about 40 minutes to get through the line. Mark Conger was just behind us.
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krj
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response 36 of 59:
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Nov 8 09:17 UTC 2000 |
NBC's Tom Brokaw said, a couple of hours ago: "Wouldn't it be something
if the networks blew Florida twice in one night?"
Quite a few Grexers shared the televised election returns in party,
starting around 7 pm. Most went to bed after the networks made their
call for Bush -- what was that, 2:20 am? But here we are now, with
Florida still questionable.
Gore's campaign chair has just said that Gore will not concede until
Florida's results firm up. I think I'm going to bed.
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scg
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response 37 of 59:
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Nov 8 09:55 UTC 2000 |
Yup, Florida is back in the too close to call category. What a roller
coaster.
Anyhow, the election commentary in party has been fun, and probably better
than anything I found on TV or elsewhere on the web. Let's do it again in
four years, or maybe tomorrow if this is still going on.
Good night.
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senna
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response 38 of 59:
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Nov 8 10:18 UTC 2000 |
It will be. I think I'm going to stay up for class. This gave me something
interesting to do. The commentators have been fun to watch, because none of
them were expecting to stay up this late. It won't be over for a long time,
days most likely.
A pity everyone else had to go to bed. This was a really lively evening. :)
Grex proves its usefullness once again. Gore has charged ahead in the popular
vote today, a massive advantage of 270,000 votes. Seems massive now, with
Florida having gone as close as 595.
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birdy
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response 39 of 59:
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Nov 8 10:22 UTC 2000 |
This is fun...like a game in overtime... thank god I don't work 'til tomorrow
afternoon.
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gull
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response 40 of 59:
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Nov 8 15:55 UTC 2000 |
Re #31: What's funny about industrial hemp? You do know it's different than
the smokable variety, right?
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senna
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response 41 of 59:
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Nov 8 18:43 UTC 2000 |
Specifically, the fact that he ranks that as his second biggest campaign issue
indicates that he's not exactly contesting on an even field.
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mooncat
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response 42 of 59:
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Nov 9 16:38 UTC 2000 |
voting... I walked to Carpenter School (seemed easier, though I got
turned around in the neighborhood so I think my time to walk there took
longer than voting.) Had only 3 people ahead of my in line to get
names checked (and this was problematic because they weren't in the
book...). All in all it took a little under half an hour.
They had the magic markers with circles to fill in... I had fun. <grins>
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aruba
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response 43 of 59:
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Nov 9 18:03 UTC 2000 |
As I understand it from hearing Nader speak, the deal with hemp is that it
requires much less pesticide spraying than cotton. So if we could legalize
hemp and use it in place of cotton in some things, the result would be good
for the environment.
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gull
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response 44 of 59:
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Nov 9 18:14 UTC 2000 |
It also is supposed to work well for making paper, with a better yield than
wood for that purpose.
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scott
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response 45 of 59:
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Nov 9 18:15 UTC 2000 |
Makes stronger fabrics, too. Hemp is actually a very useful plant.
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keesan
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response 46 of 59:
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Nov 9 18:58 UTC 2000 |
Linen is also stronger, because it has longer fibers (the whole length of the
stem for linen and hemp, the length of the boll for cotton). To rip linen,
you would have to actually break the fibers, rather than pulling them apart
from each other.
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gull
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response 47 of 59:
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Nov 9 20:57 UTC 2000 |
I do agree that supporting industrial hemp is pretty weak, as a major
campaign platform plank.
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drew
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response 48 of 59:
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Nov 10 01:34 UTC 2000 |
I had thought industrial hemp was allowed? That it was just the potent kind
that was suppressed?
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gull
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response 49 of 59:
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Nov 10 02:34 UTC 2000 |
Nope, the DEA does not distinguish between the two, and in fact has
destroyed cops of industrial hemp in the past.
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