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| Lephaid |
Remember to go out and vote, whichever side or direction you believe in. I'm looking into getting an absentee ballot (hoping I'm not missing the deadline yet, heh) because I'm living out of country.
Every individual vote counts, don't be apathetic.
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| Lephaid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
*pathetic* |
(only slightly hypocritical) ;) Does anyone know when the deadline for absentee ballots is, by the way? |
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| TweeK |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lephaid
Every individual vote counts, don't be apathetic. |
not really if you really think about it with the whole electoral vote.
state with the highest population gets more electoral votes.... so that statement isnt 100% true.
:tongue2 |
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| Lephaid |
| quote: | Originally posted by TweeK
not really if you really think about it with the whole electoral vote.
state with the highest population gets more electoral votes.... so that statement isnt 100% true.
:tongue2 |
Yes, this is also completely true, unfortunately. :P ing US voting system.
At least it's something, though. |
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| svens_bath |
| just watching the Bush speech. its hilarious, its like watching a wrestling match. "DONT VOTE HIM!DONT VOTE HIM!" when he started talking about Kerry. still, at least its watchable unlike our elections, which are as dry as your old da's nutsac |
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| SportTrance |
| ima actually going to be pissed if bush wins this one, and YES im in texas |
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| TweeK |
| quote: | Originally posted by svens_bath
just watching the Bush speech. its hilarious, its like watching a wrestling match. "DONT VOTE HIM!DONT VOTE HIM!" when he started talking about Kerry. still, at least its watchable unlike our elections, which are as dry as your old da's nutsac |
ya watching that in the UK?:crazy: |
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| Orbital32 |
| I proud to say i'm don't care if i vote or not. No really, i don't care. But if PvD comes down and does a Rock The Vote tour, i'll be there! |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by TweeK
not really if you really think about it with the whole electoral vote.
state with the highest population gets more electoral votes.... so that statement isnt 100% true.
:tongue2 |
If you think about it logically this isnt really the problem. It makes sense that the states with higher populations have higher proportional votes. More people are represented and thus to give a state with a population of 8 million and equal amount of electoral votes as one that has 40 million seems kind of unfair (in my opinion). Also in my opinion, the problem with our current system is that winner-take-all feature of the electoral college. The winner of the popular voting takes all of the electoral votes of a state. Thus is CandidateA wins StateX (with 21 electoral votes) 48% to 42% for CandidateB (10% is reserved for error/non-major candidates), then Candidate A takes all 21 votes. I believe the solution to this is proportional awarding on electoral votes. In this system, CandidateA would take 48% of the states 21 votes, CandidateB would take 42%, etc. This seems like a proper and fair way to keep the electoral college in existence while also making it a more representational system...
EDIT: A certain 3rd party candidate supports this and other electoral reforms, but as I figure everyone has figured out whom I support by now, I wont bother plugging him here |
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| blazed it |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbital32
I proud to say i'm don't care if i vote or not. No really, i don't care. But if PvD comes down and does a Rock The Vote tour, i'll be there! |
then you are ing idiot and a waste of space. Good thing Kerry is like 95% for sure going to carry california. |
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| Mebot |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lephaid
(only slightly hypocritical) ;) Does anyone know when the deadline for absentee ballots is, by the way? |
i think it's usually 30-45 days before the election.. um..so that would make it...like sept 30 or something i think...
i dunno its too late for math right now... |
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