What's Done is Done: Who else voted today?

[Murky]

Isn't voting before the debates kind of wrong in some way?

 

[downtown]

You live in the headphones/earmuffs district?

I sure do!

And why would voting before the debates matter? Do you think that folks really don't know where the candidates stand until the debates?

 

[Murky]

It isn't a matter of knowing where they stand. I guess it's a tradition to first hold public debates between candidates before people cast their votes. It harkens back to an age where most people were too busy with everyday life to worry about politics. They would attend fairs or some other event where debates were held to learn what the candidates were about. There were newspapers back then but that was nothing like the information age.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@downtown-
That's gerrymandering at it's finest. The whole gerrymandering/redistricting process is broken and is undemocratic. It needs a bad overhaul.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Isn't voting before the debates kind of wrong in some way?

They've spent nearly 4 years calling the man I voted for a Kenyan, a Muslim, and a traitor. I'd literally vote for him just as an "eff you!" even if I no longer wanted to vote for him for other reasons.

 

[duckstab]

@downtown-
That's gerrymandering at it's finest. The whole gerrymandering/redistricting process is broken and is undemocratic. It needs a bad overhaul.

Multimember districts, people vote for party lists, proportional representation. Wouldn't even require a Constitutional Amendment because Article I, Section 4, already allows Congress to legislate the way members of the House are selected. Problem solved.

And also unlikely to ever be solved. It's hard to see any electoral reform that would be in the long term interest of either of the two major parties, so I think it'd take a fairly major popular upheaval for there to be any change to the current system.

 

[AlpsStranger]

@downtown-
That's gerrymandering at it's finest. The whole gerrymandering/redistricting process is broken and is undemocratic. It needs a bad overhaul.

I agree, and I recall having a long discussion about the earmuff district with a few friends a year or so ago.

It's a true bipartisan thing: we all need to get together and find a way to stop it.

 

[aelf]

Absolutely not voting. Neither of the presidential candidates can be voted for, it would be essentially immoral to vote for either. All local races will be easily won by Republicans except the House seat is automatically Democrat and the statewide races are going Republican. I might go vote for the Republican for govenor just to see where our new polling station is. They (the liberals) moved it in an effort to disenfrancise the local elderly Republican voting block, being mistaken in the belief that old white people wouldn't be able to find the new one in time to vote.

So I'll probably go down to the old polling station and be sure that the liberals who will be there giving out incorrect directions aren't able to get away with it.

I support the disenfranchisement of old white people. Who can be possibly be worse than that group while being socially acceptable at the same time?

 

[JollyRoger]

I have voted several times already. Have a lot of voting to get done before election day. Waiting on my fake id for certain jurisdictions.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Looks like I won't be able to vote this time.

 

[GoodGame]

I turned 18 in August, mailed in my registration form at the end of August (I live kinda far away from a DMV in my county and far from my county courthouse), and I still haven't gotten my voter registration card yet My state's election site lists me as registered though...

Also, I'm probably going to just vote on election day my entire life unless I have some conflict that requires me to vote early. I don't want to vote early, then have some major thing happen to my candidate so that I regret voting for them.

You should get it within two weeks of the election.