Didja vote yet?

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Our polling place is in a little township building in the woods near the Appalachian Trail. It’s not that small - it actually has TWO porta potties.

It’s been raining hard with clearing expected this afternoon. We were going to wait but worried about crowd size later on. So we drove up at about 7:45. A 15 minute drive through the fall foliage. We parked right outside the door to the poll and walked in. No lines at all.

We only had four races. No initiatives.
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Polls open at 6:00 a.m. in my state. I arrived at 5:48. The parking lot was full. There was a line. By the time the polls opened, the line was out the door. Hell yes, I voted.
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Many years ago, my great grandmother was a suffragette. Not anyone famous, she just went to meetings and carried a sign. So women got the vote. On the first election she could vote, her husband came to her and said, "Now Mary, it ain't gonna do us no good to go vote, cause one of us is republican and the other is Democrat. Our votes are just going to cancel each other out, and there's lots of work to be done here on the farm." They were practical country people, so she said, "well I guess you're right." Her husband hitched up the mule and went to the back field to plow. She cleaned up to go to town and vote. When she got there, she saw her husband riding the mule to the poll. They never said a word to each other, just went in and cast their vote!!!
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.-Henry Clay
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.—Aristotle

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First day of early voting 10/22/18. Wanted to be sure my middle finger to Trump got recorded just in case I wouldn't be around today.
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Some truth to this- Especially since anxiety rates are the highest they've been in a decade. So gotta laugh at it a bit.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowit ... y-drinking
“We knew that there would be some early drinking, but the magnitude of that drinking is taking even experts by surprise,” Dr. Davis Logsdon, the author of the study, said. “To put it in terms that the layman can understand, we are seeing drinking that is off the Kavanaugh chart.”
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shinzen wrote: Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:44 am Some truth to this- Especially since anxiety rates are the highest they've been in a decade. So gotta laugh at it a bit.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowit ... y-drinking
“We knew that there would be some early drinking, but the magnitude of that drinking is taking even experts by surprise,” Dr. Davis Logsdon, the author of the study, said. “To put it in terms that the layman can understand, we are seeing drinking that is off the Kavanaugh chart.”
That could be the new measurement for alcohol inebriation the Kavanaugh Scale. It works in tenth of a degree from .1 Kavanaugh to 1 Kavanaugh It is Abbreviated as a KaV and it is a logarithmic scale.
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Tried to drop off my Vote by Mail last night. Drop off box was in a local library. Library was closed.

Went this morning to my polling place. About 40 people in line at 6:50am, polls opened at 7. When the polls opened I asked a poll worker how to drop off my ballot, he said to walk right in. Done at 7:05am.

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TrueTexan wrote: Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:05 am

That could be the new measurement for alcohol inebriation the Kavanaugh Scale. It works in tenth of a degree from .1 Kavanaugh to 1 Kavanaugh It is Abbreviated as a KaV and it is a logarithmic scale.
Makes about as much sense as our other methods of measurement!
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I used to love early voting when I lived in AZ. There is no early voting here. I must say that enjoy voting on Election Day. Something about standing in line, trying to ascertain the leanings if my fellow voters while respecting their and my privacy, dealing with the ballot, etc.

I love the smell of voting in the morning. Smells like democracy.
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