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Uh. Can anybody tell me when I will know who the next President of the US is?
 
I voted a few weeks ago. No lines for me and I got to vote on paper.

President: Barack Obama
House: Matt Varilek
Public Utilities Commission: Matt McGovern
District 14 Representative: Marc Feinstein

lord_joakim said:
Uh. Can anybody tell me when I will know who the next President of the US is?
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December 21, 2012. Apocalypse aside, 4-5 AM your time.
 
Sent in absentee ballot last week. No reply as of yet.
 
So I have to wait a whole and a half month!? Aw jeeze.
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Poor Englishman. We'll know either tonight in about 10-12 hours or if its close and recounts needed then a couple weeks.
 
Stereotypical black southerner was ushering the voters through with "Yessa Missa" or "Yessa Ma'am." It was funny. Also the sheriff, a family friend, let me cut in line to vote. DEMOCRACY!

Voted for Barry and Joe.
 
ace99 said:
Poor Englishman. We'll know either tonight in about 10-12 hours or if its close and recounts needed then a couple weeks.
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I'm from Denmark actually. And pretty loud about it. :p I'm impersonating Yu-Gi-Oh abridged Bakura.


Link to video.

It's a NESer thing.
 
Yeah in my hometown the voting is ordinarily done at the local elementary school. I remember liking election days because I got to hang out with my parents at school before class started I remember in the '00 presidential there were lines to get in roping all the way around the school, my parents remarked that the wait was a good 2 or 3 hours. For the midterms the election was done in the local lutheran church though (which was weird). I've only participated in 2 elections (one special election and the midterm primary). I would have voted absentee this year, but I guess my application didn't get through in time. Meanwhile my girlfriend got 2 ballots. GO AMERICA
 
Murky said:
I voted this morning too. Not many people there. The lines were short.

General: Obama/Biden

Senate: Claire McCaskill

Prop B: Yes

I only voted Rep where they were running unopposed. This is a rather conservative county/district so I fully expect it will lean Republican.
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I wondered what area you lived in.... ;)



Here, it was easy. There were maybe 15 other voters in the place at the same time i was and I was in and out in 10-12 minutes. The method they use here is they give you a large paper ballot, you go to a privacy desk, mark your choices and then insert the ballot in a counting machine on the way out.
 
I gave up watching that video at 3:17. I'm still trying to get rid of this glazed look that's come over my face.

Still, it explains a lot.
 
I mailed a request for an absentee ballot at the end of September. In early October, an electronic copy was mailed to me. After calling the local board of elections to verify that they'd be able to count my vote despite my ballot not being machine-readable (they transfer my ballot to a machine-readable one) I sealed it up and mailed it off.

I was able to confirm online that they got it.

I got 4 or 5 calls from Democrats Abroad inquiring about the status of my ballot. I can only sympathise what my neighbours back in Ohio were dealing with.
 
Just got word that those True The Vote people who were intimidating voters in my precinct are being banned from polling places all around the state. Yay.
 
Crezth, are u really in ohio? Did you really that happen? I can never read you
 
I bumped into a local reporter and friend of mine after lunch, and he said the turnout so far was "amazing".
 
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