Please stop telling me to vote no on 8. Do you honestly think that there's anyone who reads your LJ who would vote yes?
Actually, in my case, that has been true somewhat regularly in the past. I have an (now ex-)friend, for example, who actively campaigned for the Federal Marriage Amendment, which is why she's now an ex-friend.

But mostly I was telling people to donate money to the "no" side, which is somewhat different.

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It's crazy how we can sometimes have friends that don't happen to agree with us on political issues!

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I wait until the last minute just in case a candidate flips the fuck out and sets his wife on fire.

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There are still a few hours left... we can hope.

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Just about everyone on my friends list who has posted about the election in the past few weeks has trotted out the same old platitude that goes: "I don't care what you vote for, but please vote! Even if you are completely uninformed and/or will vote to undermine fundamental principles of our democracy, please vote!" Shut up. You're an idiot.

Thank you, dear god.

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I also approve this paragraph 9,000%.

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I'd like to be able to kick all those sanctimonious voters going all out for Obama this year in the nuts. The really important shit went down in 2000 and 2004. Obama is running for a janitorial position, cleaning up after the Bush orgy.

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So the real question for voters is whether Obama or McCain would be a better janitor for the post Bush-orgy cleanup. I can see that.

Doesn't change my vote, but I can see that point of view.

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re: 1) I don't trust the USPS, and luckily my polling place is not super impacted. I was in and out within 20 minutes, and it was a pleasant experience connecting with the neighbors.

Here here on the rest of the stuff, though.

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I've had HUGE problems with my snail mail lately as well. Missing bills and other important documents for lame places that don't do it electronically. It's been an ongoing ordeal for MONTHS that still is not 100% fixed.

That said, I went this morning, took less than 5mins to get in and out... But... I live in the boonies.

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I've seen comments from people who purposefully delayed voting to election day, out of a desire to be out there in the middle of history.

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somebody needs a nap and a cookie!

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I voted weeks ago (permanent absentee) and I don't understand why anyone would ever choose to wait in line to do it in person at the last minute. Are you masochists?

Some of us don't have a choice. I live in an excuse-needed absentee voting state, and I don't have a legal excuse to vote absentee. So I waited in line this morning (admittedly, it was a small line) and voted.

If I lived in a state which provided with some manner of no-excuse-needed early voting, I'd probably have voted weeks ago.

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if somebody broke your kneecaps, would that be a legal excuse?


also, i never have to wait in line to vote and you see the absolute weirdest cross-section of the populace in the weirdest state of mind possible when you do it in person. it's like swimming through a ball-pit full of ducks or something- not very comfortable and sometimes pretty noisy, but so surreal you just can't pass it up.

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Yeah, I voted early too and my FL is clogged with "GO VOTE" entries. -_- ugh.

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I whole heartedly agree with paragraph 3. I find it dumb and annoying.

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When I wasn't voting absentee I always went to vote before 8 am and there was never a line. But yeah, no reason not to do absentee -- even if you want to wait or don't trust the mail, you can drop it off at city hall on election day.

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but come on, shut up.

Shut up. You're an idiot.

Direct and to the point! Well done

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Don't vote, it only encourages them.

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There was no line, and I had to pick my kid up from school anyway (and he goes to the school where I vote). Maybe once he's out of elementary school and I no longer have a convenient excuse to go there anyway, I'll vote early.

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A bunch of my readers, otherwise pretty decent people, were pissed of when I just tried to explain my position not even on prop 8, but on a general definition of marriage, and on why having marriage rights may be important for some people.

So, yes, it happens. What can one do?

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I vote absentee because the guy I sell my vote to demands verification.

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You could take a picture with your cell phone while in the booth, you know. But then I guess you wouldn't get paid as quickly.

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Obligatory (coral-cached) Transmet:

http://www.renmero.com.nyud.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spider-tells-you-about-voting.jpg

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thankz, i hoping someone would share the quote for the rest of us.

think I need to go read the rest of this series...

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Awesome.

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Thank you. What's worse is how self-righteous and persistent they are if you try to tell them that they are being useless and annoying.

Stupidity doesn't generally bother me until it becomes an epidemic. :/

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Greg Palast's reasoning isn't particularly compelling, but he says absentee ballots are for suckers:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-palast/7-ways-to-steal-back-your_b_139034.html

I'm a permanent absentee voter also, but I'll be fixing that before the next election. Even though I don't think there's much electioneering in SF or California in general.

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There was a guy about 10-20 feet away from my polling place today electioneering. I wasn't certain of the specific distance required, but I'm going to try and find the proper people to call to get him dragged off. I didn't even bother to find out what or whom he's pushing for or against, but I just despise that sort of activity.

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1)Eh, I live all the way over at the end of Alemany so I had basically no wait to vote in person. I'm usually the only person other than the volunteers who's even there. I was in and out in maybe 10 minutes.

I do it in person because it lets me procrastinate filling out the form. If I did it absentee I might not actually get it in the mail in time. I also really like getting the sticker.

2)Yes. I'm amazed at what people feel is the constant need to keep harping about it and spending tons and tons of money on ads. You're not going to change anyone's opinion. I can't imagine that someone didn't have their mind made up on this back in... was it June?... when the issue first came up.

3)If you're not going to vote the same way I am stay the fuck home. The only fundamental principle I care about is giving me what I want. That's the only reason we vote to begin with. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying whether it's to you or just to themselves.

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In CA, if you vote absentee you can procrastinate just as much as real voters, then drop your ballot off at any polling place. Bonus is that you don't have to line up at your polling place, and it's not evil electronic voting.

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Could we turn off the International News while you sort out which muppet is going to be in power? Just come on telly in a week's time and tell us who it is so we non US citizens aren't constantly plastered with all the back stabbing and mud flinging.

And your voting system is confusing.

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1)Nope, for the last 5 years my polling place never has a line. I can walk to it from my house. I like doing that. Plus, I'm a procrastinator and haven't always spent the time to learn about all the things I need to vote on until just before election day.

2) Ok, because you said please, and because you've already voted, and because I figured you were against 8 anyway, and also because I don't tell other people how to vote (trying to persuade people, I do that but I don't boss them around), I won't.

3) \/\/

4)"Do not offend the Chair Leg of Truth; it is wise and terrible."?

You sound like you are in dire need of a nap. Or other famously effective stress relief.

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I'm thinking he means this one:

"You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting. Imagine you're locked in a huge underground night-club filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pitbulls for fun. And you ain't allowed out until you all vote on what you're going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch "Republican Party Reservation". They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns, and brand new sexual organs you did not even know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That's voting. You're welcome."

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Hear, hear.

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I had one friend who posted to the effect of "un-friend me if you're voting yes on 8".

My immediate reaction was of course, "wow, that's gay."

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