Share your vote experience!!

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.
 
No lines, more young voters than old. I am surprised by this.

Obama
McCaskill
Yes on Prop B
Yes on St. Louis police takeover
No on anti-Obamacare ammendment
Yes on Supreme Court appointment ammendment
 
Yoda Power said:
Thank you for not voting for Todd Akin.
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I believe that VRWCA has openly said that if Akin wins he will change his location to "Misery".

EDIT: And for the record, I voted straight Democrat (I know the representative and the guy challenging Klobuchar is a gold bug). Left the Soil & Water Conservation spot blank as I couldn't find any information on them. I also voted for all incumbent judges as almost all of them were running unopposed and I hate the idea of electing judges. Plus, I haven't heard anything bad about any of them so I operated under the principle that "No news is good news". I also voted no on the voter ID and gay marriage ammendment.
 
Voted at about 8:30 AM in a small little township in 'Amish country'. While I was registering (new to the area) a half dozen people came in and voted. Seems like they were keeping a running tally on the number of votes and it was at about 40. When the registration was done there was no wait at all.

Electronic Voting!

Touch screen that prints out a paper ballot receipt. You go through the options on the screen then at the end it gives you a 'final ballot' with all your choices on the screen to confirm. After that then a paper receipt is printed that you can see (encased in glass so you can't take it) for you to confirm the paper receipt matches your choices you saw on the screen. Confirm that then the receipt is fed into the ballot box (so the next voter can't see it). At any point before that final confirmation you can go back a screen and change your votes. I like this method better as it eliminates 'hanging chads', choices questionably marked or not filled in (or scratched out and changed) and other other stuff that could be disputed during a recount.

There was one empty chair marked 'Observer'.

Election choices that I remember:

President (the main 2 of course and it seems 5 or so 3rd parties)
Senator
Congressman
State senate
State congressman
County clerk
Referendum on a community college in a nearby county getting money for a 80 million dollar expansion.
 
I will be sitting at home thinking about how I could go about getting the voter age lowered one year.
 
Verarde said:
I will be sitting at home thinking about how I could go about getting the voter age lowered one year.
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You can't unless you are willing to get registered for the draft at 17 as well. The 18 year old voting age ammendment was intertwined with the draft. Soldiers who got drafted to fight in Vietnam couldn't vote for or against the guys who were sending them because the voting age was 21 while the draft age was 18. The 26th ammendment fixed that.

Edit: On research, I found that at this time only 4 states had voting ages set above 21. Congress passed a law moving the voting age down to 18 in all states but it was ruled unconsitutional. So they ammended the constitution. But yeah most of the reason behind the change was protests over Vietnam wrt draftees not being able to vote.
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How many states have touchscreen/electronic voting?

I know when I voted in Illinois in 2008 it was touchscreen (though without all the fancy printouts that the other guy in this thread had).

In Missouri, it's an old fashioned paper ballot that is electronically counted by a machine.

What kinds of machines/ballots do you guys use and does it make a difference?

Honestly, for me, I see no reason to use an electronic voting machine over a paper ballot. The paper ballots get the job done well enough, unless there is some reason I am missing.
 
Last year my polling place was changed to a Baptist church, which I do not like, but it has the virtue of being much closer than my last polling place. In Alabama we get paper ballots that we draw lines on, then feed into a machine. Most of the tables were occupied. I drove there listening to the "Yes We Can" song by Will am I, then voted Libertarian. :lol: I voted against a lot of amendments, abstained from two because they're local issues the entire state is being made to vote on courtesy of our wretched state constitution, and voted for one. I also approved a referendum to sell beer in the county on Sundays.

I was most happy to vote for Bob Vance, a judge who is running for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court against a former chief justice (Roy Moore) who is a bible-thumper who was thrown out of office for shoving a religious monument into the courthouse and refusing to remove it.

I also voted against one fellow because he ran using the name "Big Daddy".
 
LOL it's SCOAL, not SCOTUS in Alabama.

I've never had to vote in a church before!
 
hobbsyoyo said:
LOL it's SCOAL, not SCOTUS in Alabama.

I've never had to vote in a church before!
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:lol: Oops. Thanks. They do clean the room of religious stuff for the most part: the only thing left is a "Model Prayer" on the wall.
 
In a way, they are ideal. They're more or less not being used on Tuesday, as opposed to the school where my polling station is. My local high schoolers are being denied use of their gym four times a year because of elections.

Also, Roy Moore is coming back maybe? I remember that brouhaha. I'll try to keep an eye out for that race result.
 
VRWCAgent said:
In a way, they are ideal. They're more or less not being used on Tuesday, as opposed to the school where my polling station is. My local high schoolers are being denied use of their gym four times a year because of elections.

Also, Roy Moore is coming back maybe? I remember that brouhaha. I'll try to keep an eye out for that race result.
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Seriously they are having you vote in a frakking school?

Yeah I'd vote in a church over a school on a Tuesday all day and twice on Sundays. Er, not Sundays, then I'd vote in the school...nvm

BTW I wasn't knocking on the idea of voting in a church, I just didn't realize that was done. I have no issues with it even as an athiest.
 
In Ohio. The line took two hours to get through because the partisan watchdogs righteous defenders of voting integrity kept challenging the identification of minority people in my precinct - because their driver's licenses looked "suspicious" or because they were accused of having come in earlier ("I could have sworn...").
 
Oh god Crezth

that's despicable :/

when is it that the votes are tallied anyways
 
Crezth said:
In Ohio. The line took two hours to get through because the partisan watchdogs righteous defenders of voting integrity kept challenging the identification of minority people in my precinct - because their driver's licenses looked "suspicious" or because they were accused of having come in earlier ("I could have sworn...").
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Please tell me this is a joke or you are being sarcastic. Please.
 
I got the swing state blues.
 
Lines were reasonably short (time-wise) at 10am. In Michigan, we fill in circles, just like the SAT used to be like :) , before that went electronic :(
 
I just voted. Electronic. No lines. Walked in and out in less than 5 mins. Couldn't be bothered to take a pic but:

President: Working Families (Obama, Biden)
Senator: Working Families (Kristen Gillibrand)
Civil Judges: Voted for the 2 Democrats who were the only ones running anyway.
 
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