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Hey, I Voted!
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| copacetic |
| Hey I know it's totally polarized this year but it felt GREAT to vote yesterday! If you live in Florida and can vote, vote early. Party on and peace! |
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| Arbiter |
| Yep, I did this as well. No reason to wait in the long lines on election day. |
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| DarkAngel |
| How do you vote early? |
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| RzO |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkAngel
How do you vote early? |
Call the supervisor of elections for your county...they have places you can go to from now until nov 2nd... |
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| LiquidX |
| People, if you have the choice of voting, use it.. I say is the most powerful thing you may have currently.. really, I think it's a very important thing.. so go and vote ur ass!!! :whip: :D |
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| phonk64 |
I'll have to say that I totally disagree with early voting. Before you rail me, here's why:
1) The Founding Fathers made election day a Tuesday for a reason. They wanted election day to be INCONVENIENT. That means you have to go out of your way to vote. This keeps morons and people who care more about their jobs away from the polls, thus creating a more stable democracy (even thought the US is a republic). Every political scientist knows that the downfall to any democratic system is an uneducated, voting populace.
2) Increases the chances of voter fraud.
3) Allows the media to know whats going on before election day and spin the results. They do it all day ON election day, now they get a whole WEEK.
Thoughts anyone?
P.S. And before you can even think I mean this, I DO NOT THINK THAT YOU SHOULD TURN PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE POLLS. EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO VOTE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO. |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by phonk64
Every political scientist knows that the downfall to any democratic system is an uneducated, voting populace.
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We're in deep then. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
We're in deep then. |
Yup, I'm all in favor of registration exams to ensure the voter is literate and not conservative, but unfortunately our current system has to allow the less intelligent among us to vote as well. |
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| DSmalls |
| quote: | Originally posted by phonk64
1) The Founding Fathers made election day a Tuesday for a reason. They wanted election day to be INCONVENIENT. |
They did? This is a fact? | quote: | | That means you have to go out of your way to vote. This keeps morons and people who care more about their jobs away from the polls, thus creating a more stable democracy (even thought the US is a republic). |
So people who take advantage of more efficient/convenient methods are morons? And this does in fact create a 'more stable democracy'? | quote: | | Every political scientist knows that the downfall to any democratic system is an uneducated, voting populace. |
I agree, but I don't think you'll find a correlation between uneducateds who vote early vs. those who vote on election day. If you do then I'll stand corrected, but I'm voting early & I'm very educated.
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2) Increases the chances of voter fraud. |
How?
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3) Allows the media to know whats going on before election day and spin the results. They do it all day ON election day, now they get a whole WEEK. |
Best point here, but it's been going on for a while & I haven't heard any exit-poll results yet. Besides, like you say, it'll affect people on the day of too.
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Thoughts anyone?
P.S. And before you can even think I mean this, I DO NOT THINK THAT YOU SHOULD TURN PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE POLLS. EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO VOTE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO. |
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| planbrad |
| i went to vote but the line was way too long. im gonna keep trying to vote early, if not, ill just vote on the 2nd like everyone else. |
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| RzO |
[QUOTE]Originally posted by phonk64
I'll have to say that I totally disagree with early voting. Before you rail me, here's why:
1) The Founding Fathers made election day a Tuesday for a reason. They wanted election day to be INCONVENIENT. That means you have to go out of your way to vote. This keeps morons and people who care more about their jobs away from the polls, thus creating a more stable democracy (even thought the US is a republic). Every political scientist knows that the downfall to any democratic system is an uneducated, voting populace.
2) Increases the chances of voter fraud.
3) Allows the media to know whats going on before election day and spin the results. They do it all day ON election day, now they get a whole WEEK.
Thoughts anyone?
Granted... but as a political science major I beg to differ that at the time when our founding fathers made the rules it was also a time when the men wore wigs and ing tights....Now a days we have an uber-conservative President in our country taking the popular sentiment of our people on THE WRONG PATH....hence the fact that early voting just as anything else that is also different from those times should be embraced as an evolved way of American civic engagement... this will be the most important election of our lives better make it right....Early voting or not in the end....VOTE JOHN KERRY.... A better America...RzO |
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| mdamon7278 |
I voted for the Aflac duck, hes a good guy!!!
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