Did You VOTE Today??

**JanH** · 11-07-2006, 10:26 AM

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We voted early. We have the new electronic systems and I wanted to go early so I could learn to use it without embarrassing myself!

**rduell** · 11-07-2006, 10:39 AM

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Not yet. Will go with DH when he gets home from work.

**glennkawesch** · 11-07-2006, 10:52 AM

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Voted straight republican ticket. Please don't slap me!

Glenn Kawesch

**HiImSeth** · 11-07-2006, 11:03 AM

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My wife and I both voted this morning.

**fairy74** · 11-07-2006, 11:07 AM

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yes, on the way to work

**LuxLiving** · 11-07-2006, 11:21 AM

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Took FrugalSon just now and we voted. The Hubster will vote on his way home, and CashHappySon will miss out this time because of his hours.

**creditcardfree** · 11-07-2006, 11:29 AM

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No! And I'm kind of upset about it. We've just moved to a new state. We had time to register, but I don't know anything about the canidates here to make an informed decision. A week ago or more, I thought about sending in an absentee ballot for my old address, but I don't think that is legal...so I'm out this time. I feel really bad about this too.

**mom-from-missouri** · 11-07-2006, 11:55 AM

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YES. I noticed the polls were much busier than normal. I'm in MO and we have the stem-cell research issue on the ballot--I think that is drawing out a lot of people who normally would have not voted.

**genmed** · 11-07-2006, 12:06 PM

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Yes this afternoon.

**miclason** · 11-07-2006, 12:33 PM

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Cherish your right to vote!!...as someone who has voted under fire, I can tell you how important it is! (not to mention that, if you don't vote, you lose your right to whine! ;P

**Fern** · 11-07-2006, 12:46 PM

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Yes, before work.
Straight Democratic except for governor; she's a woman, and she's doing a good job, so republican it is.

A tight senatorial race here in CT so il' be glued to the tv tonight watching the early returns. I always thought eelction night would be a great night for a party with all my news junkie friends.

**MonkeyMama** · 11-07-2006, 01:31 PM

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Of Course!!!!!

**Joan.of.the.Arch** · 11-07-2006, 01:45 PM

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Yes and it took the longest time voting has ever taken. We did touchscreen voting in our last primaries so I was prepared for that, yet we do have the choice to vote on a paper ballot. I thought the computer also kept a printout version--seems to me it did for the primaries. But when the poll workers said there would be no paper I record, I asked for the paper ballot. It is one of those fill-in-the-bubble forms. The bubbles are huge and the instrument to fill in the bubbles was a medium ballpoint pen, so it took a while to carefully fill those bubbles in. There is a lot to vote on in my state and city, too. But I'm all for direct democracy: Let us vote on ballot issues (as opposed merely to representatives) more often!