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Folks are writing in from all over Virginia with CRAZY TALES of, uh, empty polling places and votin’ spots where the only people bothering to cast a ballot are the elections officials who are stuck there all day anyway. Catch the fever! This exciting photo comes via Spotsylvanian Suffrage Sleuth mathewbrooks, who was nearly murdered by seething crowds before taking a snap of these empty voting cubicles.
Wow, nice spirit of civic participation there!
Hey, I got some new nooz about Republicans!!!
There is a viral YouTube video going around of Republican mascots, or elephants, and some behavior that is going to be featured at the Republican State Conventions around the nation! The different Republican State Conventions are going to preview the video with an admonishment they often do this behavior for one another, but they need to emulate their mascot even more! They are considering also showing this at the National Convention just in case they missed anyone… In the meantime, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich are fighting over which one gets the honor of having this video played to introduce their speech to the National Republican Convention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2y_LEbdEVE
Voters did no show up to elect European Parliament members either. Is this a trend? Yes, Virginia the option “none of the above” exists.
I voted Saturday in the tourist trap of Olde Towne Alexandria — there was a line, and I had to wait. Still, I spent more time looking for a parking space than I did voting.
Just goes to prove — we get the government we deserve — asshats and all…-
Yeah, that’s about how it looked in Chesapeake, only with less people.
YES WE CAN BUT WE DON’T WANT TO BECAUSE TERRY MCAULIFFE, SERIOUSLY??
Vote? It’s not November, why would you vote?
It’s voting day here for us in Wisconsin too. I have no idea what for, aside from the town asking for a gazillion dollars to build a new school… again… and will be defeated… again…
Good to see thin-air is winning in Virginia.
Sufferin’ suffrage!
Excellent. That means my vote against McAuliffe should carry the day, then. Aren’t people going to be surprised when McAuliffe gets beat by Lizard People…
Looks like VA wants voters to get on their knees to vote. Separation of church n’ state ain’t what it used to be.
Sussemilch: Out here in the Soviet of Washington (state) my little town voted a couple of weeks ago to RAISE OUR TAXES to fund the local pool that our city couldn’t afford anymore because it spent $15 million on a fancy bus stop. Passed with something like 63% of the vote.
I took the hint from McAuliffe and stayed home with a bottle of rum and my Mika B. pr0n.
When I went to vote in Arlington this morning, The only other people there were an older couple with their toddler grandson.
Kid: “Nana, what are we doing?”
Nana: “Voting.”
Kid: “Why?”
Why, indeed.
There is such a thing as too much democracy, apparently. Although the Pirate (Bay) Party of Sweden did manage to get one seat in the Euro Parliament.
Those little voting machines look so sad and lonely. Won’t some nice Virginians step up and make them feel happy and useful and loved, preferably by voting against Terry McAwful?
I voted this morning.
When I got to my polling place, there were confused people out front handing out stuff with pictures of the already-elected senator Mark Warner on the front. I asked them where the polling place was and two people pointed in opposite directions. There were about 6 or 8 of them.
I looked in the directions they pointed–one a gym full of middle schoolers and the other a small “polling place” sign. I told them I would go in the direction of the polling place sign.
I walked into another gymnasium with two winvote machines, two folding chairs, and a small table with 3 people behind it that looked excited yet surprised to see me. I gave them my voter registration information with my address on it and they asked for my full name and address (which was printed on the card they were just handed?). They then confirmed my information by reading it back to me from the screen, my name (and this is a quote) “at whatever address you just gave. Here is your ballot card.”
I told them I heard I was the second person to vote (my fiancee was there earlier) and they said “no, you are number 79!” which is shocking given that aforementioned fiancee and I had not seen anyone when we went in. If you assume the long walk from the gym door to the table and voting process takes a record-short 5 minutes, things must have backed up earlier in the morning. My calculations suggest they were three people deep at some points.
I voted, got my sticker, and left.
The democratic gatherers outside wished me all sorts of things like “take care” and “thank you” and “good night” (really, at 9:15AM).
Wow, not even one Wonketteer defending old Terry? Won’t somebody give us a, “McAuliffe roolz, Deeds droolz!”? Nah, me neither.
Who knew we even have elections anymore in this country? I thought I heard on FOX News that we were a communist dictatorship now - what with the president of CEO being waterboarded and all the terrorists being sent to New York for a theater hopping weekend.
I meant the President of GM!
Come here a minute: Up here in New Jersey, our Governor Corzine only received 78% of the vote and he was UNOPPOSED!
I voted so that I can put a “Don’t blame me, I voted for Creigh Deeds” bumper sticker on my car when Terry loses the state for the Democrats in November.
Damn, I saw the picture and thought that somebody had set a high score in Tempest.
P.S. I know plenty of people rooting for Terry; they just happen to be Republicans interested in their chances of general election success.
Fuck Virginia, and Maryland too.
out here in Califorlornia we vote on new propositions every Tuesday.
norbizness:
HI SCORES
ASS
FUK
SUK
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NBZ
Well, no wonder everyone stayed away. The way those machines are turned, anyone passing by can see which idiot you voted for.
Those machines are drawing electricity from the SAME POWER CORD!! That means the Dumbocrats are feeding in ACORN votes to tilt the election for that Muslin dude and his trillion-dollar henchmen instead of the Real Virginias. Wake up Sheeple! Only Ron Paul can save us!
Maybe the Virginia Dems need a lesson from the Chicago machine on how to wake up a few cemeteries on election day.
Never seen a sadder picture… How forlorn is that??
It’s not a sad picture, it’s a respectful one. Two young machines, slowly extending their sinewy, black tendrils toward each other, hoping to maybe cop a volt, just like the rest of us really. The good people of Virginia are to be commended for considerately leaving this shy couple undisturbed.
Lascauxcaveman: Well, it HAS been unseasonably warm lately - in the 70s and all.
3.5% turnout so far. Yay Democracy!
missannethrope: Me too, ‘cept I voted for the other guy that’s not him. Watch what happens next: “With 37% of the primary vote, let me introduce to you, your next Governor [sic], Terry McAuliffe.”
Is the election between George Allen and John Riggins for Arlington County Sheriff, or did we misread something?
Reminds me of the time I was a judge at an NC poll and 9 (NINE) nine I said nine people came by all fucking day long. NINE people.
(It was a municipal and school board election. Only we were in non-municipal boonie-land and the kids in our precinct went to school in the next county. So, I wasn’t in total deadbeat heaven. Just close.)