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Rogue
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Since: 08-17-04

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Posted on 11-04-14 05:38 PM Link | Quote
If you have a Facebook account, I'm sure you're sick of hearing this... BUT GO VOTE!


In other news I was almost disenfranchised today at my polling place. I'm pretty pissed, but my vote's in there so they can go fuck themselves.
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Since: 08-14-04
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Posted on 11-04-14 10:48 PM Link | Quote
Interesting to see where Kansas could possibly land on this one, but it's scary to wonder if it matters at this point.
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Posted on 11-05-14 02:13 AM Link | Quote
I did this year. Nothing that I voted for passed, except for the legalization of marijuana (so the stoners don't have anything to talk about anymore).
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Since: 08-15-04
From: Ferelden

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Posted on 11-05-14 11:53 AM Link | Quote
How did they almost disenfranchise you, Rogue?

I voted yesterday. Got the Governor I wanted, but nothing else. I need to move to a more liberal county at least, or to get the fuck out of this state.
Rogue
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Posted on 11-05-14 01:31 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Elara
How did they almost disenfranchise you, Rogue?

Apparently two different precincts were using our polling place this year. I walked in and was already abrasively addressed by the lady checking who went to which table. "CAN I HELP YOU?!"

"I'm here to vote?"

"Oh... OK. Do you have your sample ballot?"

"No?"

"Why not?"

"Because I don't need it to vote?"

Anyway, it continued like this until she finally looked up my name and told me to go to the other table with two Indian-American women seated at it. I get over there and the woman looking for my name asks, "What's your district?"

"Uh... what do you mean? I don't know my district?"

She looks annoyed, and this eventually gets sorted out. I still have no clue what she meant asking that. The only "district" I could think of right away was that we're the 9th circuit district court.

The next woman just hands me a ballot and says nothing else to me, so off I go to the closest available voting booth.

I'm halfway through voting, just flipping through the pages of judges, when I hear this woman on the other side of the room shouting, "Excuse me. Excuse me! EXCUSE ME!!!"

I turn around and there's this African-American woman in the center of the room, glaring at me. "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?" she demands.

I'm confused.

She stalks over and goes, "What are you doing here? Did you start already?"

"Yes?"

"You're not supposed to vote there. Can't you tell you're supposed to be on THAT side? And you started already?"

"Yeah... no one told me where to go."

"Well, I guess that's it, you're done then."

Long pause as she continues to glare at me like I'm a goddamn idiot who had no business being there.

Let me re-iterate that I didn't know there were two different precincts using this polling place. My thought on going to different tables was it was a matter of dividing up the last names (A-M, N-Z... you know). All of the booths were along the same wall, looking identical, and there was NO division among them. So by going to the wrong booth, when I wasn't informed where to go, they were about to just deny me my right to vote.

Eventually a woman behind her goes, "Well, maybe we can void that ballot and give her a new one."

I walk back to the Indian women and surrender the ballot, waiting for a new one, as she's also chastising me for going to the wrong booth. "You didn't tell me where to go." She then sits there and stares at the dots I inked for at least a half a minute like she's trying to decipher how I voted.

"Uh.. excuse me?" She finally hands me the blank ballot and I walk over to the correct side, vote and then stand by the machine, waiting for her to instruct me.

Thus begins another round of treating me like a feeble-minded buffoon as she tells me to fold it in half (I do, but she then sighs loudly and says, "No, the other way"). She then goes, "Ugggh, you also didn't tear off that one part," referring to the stub, which in previous elections has ALWAYS been torn off by the poll worker. I eventually get to feed my ballot into the box, wait for my sticker and then proceeded to GTFO.

It was all particularly obnoxious. I warned Bran and my parents, who still went through bullshit with these people who were there all day, on voting when they got off work. Apparently they still weren't informing people which booths to use.
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Posted on 11-05-14 08:08 PM Link | Quote
That... is completely ridiculous Rogue. Any way you can report that? It's not a thing itself that should be handled by monkeys. Just wtf.

Originally posted by Cteno
I did this year. Nothing that I voted for passed, except for the legalization of marijuana (so the stoners don't have anything to talk about anymore).

Seriously, BOTH sides win. Good riddance.
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Since: 08-15-04
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Posted on 11-05-14 10:07 PM Link | Quote
I posted a little rant about the low voter turnout for the under 30 crowd on Facebook. What do I get as the first commenters? Two of the best examples of the problem.
Xeoman

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Posted on 11-05-14 11:13 PM Link | Quote
I saw it and laughed.
Katana

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Since: 08-15-04
From: Philadelphia, P.A.

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Posted on 11-06-14 07:37 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xeoman
I saw it and laughed.


Ditto.

Rogue, I'm sorry. People are pretty intense and stupid. As frustrating as it was, I'm glad you still went through with it.

I'm from Philadelphia, so we're pretty liberal here for the most part. I was more than pleased with the governors' results to say the least and very excited to have voted (in person) for my first winner. I had to vote absentee both times for the presidential elections.

Rogue
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Posted on 11-06-14 12:15 PM Link | Quote
I just listened to Rep. Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania spouting all kinds of fire and brimstone on Fox this morning. I can't believe what he was saying went on the air, but then again...

Two-thirds of the country chose not to vote. Well, time to build momentum for 2016.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention. While out in Long Beach for one of Brandon's shows, I overheard these 20-somethings discussing the election and one said something like, "We really need to vote no on Prop 8" as though it's something you vote on every year.


(Last edited by Rogue on 11-06-14 12:17 PM)
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Since: 08-15-04
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Posted on 11-06-14 12:27 PM Link | Quote
... Mike Kelly represents the area where I live. I am sure that puts into perspective why I hate it here. He won by 60%.

And those people you heard are idiots. My gods, are the youth really this fucking stupid?

The first one of my friends that posted comments on that rant I made is now making a bunch of Facebook rants of his own because Ben called him an idiot.
Rogue
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Posted on 11-06-14 03:32 PM Link | Quote
The word "idiot" comes from Greek for one who doesn't participate in politics. Believe me, the label fits this guy.
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Posted on 11-06-14 11:55 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rogue

Two-thirds of the country chose not to vote.

One side's impotent, one side's obsessed with party dogma, then there's the actively-malevolent wingnuts and science-deniers.

It feels like there's no fucking point, everything's going to shit no matter what.

I get that I should care, but ultimately I failed to convince myself it was worth changing my schedule to be able to vote before work.

Keep in mind the fact that I live in an area redder than an overripe tomato, however, which may be affecting my perspective.
Xeoman

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Posted on 11-07-14 08:37 PM Link | Quote
I don't even know where I stand. I just don't like it being lopsided on either end... which kind of just happened.
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Since: 08-15-04
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Posted on 11-08-14 11:00 AM Link | Quote
I really hate the existence of political parties. This two-party system in particular is killing us.

The thing that is truly scary, and what I wish would have motivated more people to vote... is that we all agree that the wingnuts and science deniers on the right are fucking insane. Even most moderate conservatives do. Yet, because the youth that hates those guys did not go out and vote... those crazy fucks are now going to be the chairs of the committee on science and environment!

Jim Inhofe, a guy who denies climate change because the Bible doesn't mention it is going to become the chair of the environment and public works committee! Ted Cruz is next in line to chair the subcommittee on Space and Science... we are giving him authority over NASA!

Am I the only one terrified over this?
Rogue
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Posted on 11-09-14 08:47 PM Link | Quote
Woo, thanks, Oklahoma.

Rogue
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Posted on 11-11-14 11:16 PM Link | Quote
The U.S. and China have entered into an agreement to combat climate change.

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