Have voted every year since I was 21 (1961).
Jim [cptn]
Stay Safe.
I remember when there was no early voting periods. The absentee ballots were sent out to those who couldn’t make it to the polling places, like people working overseas with different companies, or the military, otherwise the voting day was set for that one day. This wasn’t that long ago.
In the end of the last century, (feels like I’m real old just saying that), stories started popping up about sacks of absentees from the military not being delivered or showing up too late to be counted and then amazingly a large box of ballots would show up and there was a demand that those be checked. Hanging chad time.
I go on voting day, and will go early on the primaries, but I vote.
I remember there was an episode on the old Superman T.V. series that delt with a possible rigged voting for the mayor. It had cheating ballots, crimminals intimadating voters and so on. We’ve seen some of that here in the not too distant past, but the intimadating people worked only once and were never prosecuted that I know of.
and I bet you’re wondering what party…
[;)] Chicago, vote early and vote often
“Politicians are a lot like diapers. Both need to be changed frequently, for the same reason.”
I forgot about the vote early and often line, I’m sure it has a lot of truth in it.
There are very few politicians who can be trusted.
There was a broadway musical that we did in high school called Fiorello that told the story of Laguardia. His party had nobody who was even close to a viable candidate so he entered himself without support from the party and he won. The person who became N.Y.C. mayor was replaced by J.J.Walker. eventually he and many of the people he put into positions were brought up on corruption charges.
…And encourage your deceased relations to do so as well…(or so the story goes).[:S]
That part I never heard before, but ir fits.
Very good! And some of them really stinks!
I vote in every election, it is the only and most important tool that we, average citizens, have to attempt to control the politicians. I do not use absentee ballots, In my neck of the woods, there have been several instances were such ballots have “disappeared” or “appeared” depending how the voting was going, so I always vote in person an do not leave until my ballot is in the machine.
So, this November, do your civic duty and VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
Joe
“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Im doing my part. [;)]
Love your comment Eagle! Its got my vote.
Thank you to those to work our polling places. I expect this year will be quite an adventure. Although the current political climate wants me to look forward to a root canal over going through with this election, I am always going to excercise my right to vote and complain.
Our country is unique in that we are actually 50 individual democracies all voting to have an equal voice in a national government, who’s primary duty is to make sure we are all united and protected equally. This is why voting for our state representatives and supporting the Electoral College is so important. I am concerned that people in the US are losing the focus in that the US is not to be governed by one central government.
Its also interesting that there are countries that make it mandatory to vote or face a fine. To me, if the government is forcing me to vote, then that is not a free election. Voting should remain a right and civic duty for a citizen and not a requirement.
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Hurumpf! Harumpf! Harumpf!!!
“I didn’t get a harrumph outta that guy”. Gov Lamarr 1974
Sorry, couldn’t t resist.
Somebody gets it [;)]
Not only was that authentic frontier gibberish…