Well if the only candidate you deem worth voting for is one that shares all your exact viewpoints, you need to run for office and vote for yourself. Just complaining that someone else won’t do it for you is lazy and ignorant. Maybe you can learn about compromise in the next four years instead.
I have been working at the polling place since 8:30. Voting has been steady, but no long lines. I have been processing absentee ballots.
Same here. Working as an election judge since 5am. We've been rotating duties. The precinct I'm working is in Niles & turnout is good.
props to you two for the civic sacrifice. I EJed a couple times when I was un- or under-employed. It's a long ass day, if satisfying. Certainly gave me a new appreciation for my elders. Our democracy couldn't function without you, so thanks!
It is a long ass day, but working at the election was the one way for me to not obsess about the election. I am jusy glad I did have to start at 5:30 as I did the last couple of times
turnout numbers: As of 2:00pm, we had over 62% voter turnout with more than 990,000 ballots cast! Thus far, the 25-34 age group has cast the most votes. Chicago turnout numbers as of 2:00PM. #ElectionDay #PlanYourVote pic.twitter.com/q0k7D231as— Chicago Board of Elections (@ChicagoElection) November 3, 2020 2019 mayoral election was 35%
So is it legal for a candidates wife to ask you to please consider voting for their husbands while walking into the polling place? Hope the chibes Weirdo
I don't need them to hold my exact values I just need 1. Healthcare that is affordable so I don't die of something preventable and can change jobs when something like a pandemic happens 2. A foreign policy that basically says mind your own ********ing business 3. Legal weed and no drug test for thc. Then they can spend all day throwing poop at each other for all I care
I meant did NOT have to start at 5:30 am. Yes, I am a weirdo. Yes, a candidate's spouse can ask you to vote for the candidate as long as the spouse abides by the requirement to stay x-feet away from the polling place.
Again, you should consider running for office at some point. I support your positions and hope you would not throw poop.
Why is the electoral college still a thing? Doesn't make any sense to me. Discourages people with different opinions from the rest of the state from bothering to vote. Like hypothetically people flee Illinois to Wisconsin or Indiana but still hold the same democratic principles. But Wisconsin and Indiana will all go to the Republican party most likely so why bother? Shouldn't the person with the most votes win? Then again maybe not.
It is in the Constitution. To get rid of it completely would require a Constitutional Amendment. A few things could chip into it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I feel as though I am seeing the world differently from the Trump voters- do not understand how they can vote for him. After the last four years, I was hoping for a Biden landslide
I was just thinking about this. Trump supporters seem to be the kind of people who would smoke cigarettes while trying to figure out how to put gas in their tesla
Well I have no weed left in the grinder. I'll start tommorow again I guess. Even the biggest idiots get second chances apparently
You know I always knew there was a certain percentage of neanderthals living among us I just had no clue it was this high. Speaking of which South Dakota legalized weed before Indiana? ********. Not that it really matters
I heard they were gonna ban drug tests for thc in Wisconsin so I was actually thinking of moving. Really weird state seeing how liquor is practically free
To keep it from being free, Wisconsin has a "minimum price" strategy for alcohol in Wisconsin. The "Unfair Sales Act" states that certain items are required to have a minimum markup beyond wholesale cost of goods sold. The Marijuana laws in Wisconsin are very, very strange. Pushing forward with marijuana reform laws was largely approved by the voters in 2018. Governor Evers is in favor of "medical" marijuana and decriminalizing recreational marijuana, but the Republican legislature stripped it from the budget plan last year. It is so strange that beer is omnipresent, but marijuana is "completely illegal." I wonder if some of the big beer companies in Wisconsin are behind this.
I worked as an EJ yesterday again and it was very busy early in the day and then had nothing but a few small, predictable waves after 11 or so. We ended up with fewer total votes than the last mayoral election (which was the first I worked) but I feel like overall turnout will be higher given early and mail in voting. The best part of the day was seeing our local alderperson/dem committeeperson (Gardiner) getting roasted on his own Facebook page for backdoor bragging about providing pizza for the judges, as he dropped off medium (maybe large?) pizzas at some split precincts that had up to 15 people working in them. It was great, he popped into our spot with the pizza while making sure we knew that the box of joe and dozen (for 15 people!) donuts delivered earlier were from him. I personally don’t care, I live a block away from the polling place and usually just come home and eat a quick lunch, but the old alderperson would always have a couple dozen donuts for a much smaller crew (there’s normally around 10 total) and two pizzas- one for carnivores and a cheese only pizza for the vegetarians.