I have been regular text messages to vote for Biden...from Arizona. I haven't live in Arizona for more than 10 years,
Done that 3 or 4 times. I'm on some list which keeps getting passed around. And somehow they think my name is Lori. I do know that somebody somewhere entered an incorrect number. Right after I moved from Az, I got a lot of calls about selling my house (I never owned a house in 'zona). Turned out that somebody had passed along a number in which the person's number was 1 digit different form mine, and that digit was just below mine on the keypad.
I voted today today at the Jane Lawton Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, MD. Easy peasy.....Quick ,efficient, well organized, plenty of volunteers and clean and well run facilities. I was in and out in 15 min. I voted in the spirit of RBG, John Lewis and Elijah Cummings, my parents and ancestors. I voted to support minorities, women, LGBTQs, immigrants and dreamers.
59 minutes to vote in Long Island City -- longer than the wait for Obama in '08 in Williamsburg. Have a friend who had a 4.5-hour line on the Upper East Side yesterday. New York's never turned out like this.
I voted. I felt it would have been more satisfying if there was some some racist piece of trash in a red hat to kick in the nuts as you walk out the door.
I voted this morning and took my 4 adult kids with me in MD. We were there 10 minutes before 7am and we were out by 7:15. Felt really good, hoping for a great BLUE wave on Tuesday.
My wife and I voted yesterday evening with our two kids in tow. We have 4 in person absentee locations in the city (so one per roughly 75,000 residents). It took us over an hour to get through the line. Maybe 100 people in front of us. Much worse than it would have been if we didn’t show up at 5:30 on one of the two days per week they extend hours to 7pm. I hate judge retentions on the ballot btw. 25 of those on a ballot is a time waster. Leave em blank if you have no idea. Also: for any women or the women in your lives, a good “election shirt”. The poll worker told my wife, “I see what you did there” with a smile. https://www.funnyordie.com/2019/11/...tives-ruth-bader-ginsburg-leopard-print-shirt Also also: This is the worst ballot initiative language I have ever seen on my ballot and quite possibly the longest sentence I have encountered anywhere: Should Chapter 23 of the Revised Code of the City of St. Louis be amended to impose a gross receipts tax of seven and one half percent of the gross receipts obtained from Telecommunications Providers, which are and include every entity now or hereafter engaged in a general telecommunication business in the City, providing telecommunication, telecommunications exchange, or local, toll, or long distance, telephone service to its customers with a service or billing address within the St. Louis City limits; and Fiber Networks Providers, which are and include every entity now or hereafter engaged in providing fiber networks, built whole or in part in the City's public right of way, which are not internet or service providers subject to franchise fees, to customers and other users of fiber networks?
Obviously, you haven't had to deal with California proposition's. This wouldn't even had made the top ten.
IKR. They spent about 50% of the length Gettysburg address in one sentence to ask if we want a telecom tax to fund digital infrastructure improvements.
Interestingly, this was the recommendation of the local paper’s editorial board. Vote no because the question sucks: Then there’s Proposition T, a 129-word, almost incomprehensible single sentence that asks voters to approve a gross-receipts tax on fiber-optics telecommunications providers as an incentive to encourage fiber-optics expansion. The idea is good, but the actual ballot language is likely to leave voters confused and bewildered. We recommend voting no on Prop T because the authors don’t deserve to be rewarded for introducing such ridiculous phrasing on a general election ballot where the bulk of voters don’t hold doctoral degrees in linguistics.
Illinois doesn't usually have a lot of ballot issues for voters to decide, but when it does, the Secretary of State sends each household a pamphlet explaining the ballot issue and provides pros and cons for each measure so people can make an informed choice. I don't know how long the state has been doing this, but I like it. I got mine about a month ago, just before early voting and mail-in voting began here.
That was my experience in IL as well. Our initiatives come in two flavors: municipal: any new tax, fund, privatization or lease of an asset of a certain value must have an initiative per home rule charter. state: we have horribly lax dark money restrictions here. So libertarian robber baron types fund a boatload of ballot initiatives. As a rule, I hate them. We elect officials to make hard choices requiring a lot of information so we don’t have to. Because the public can be pretty dumb.
True enough! I voted quite some time ago, and I voted 'Yes' on this year's proposal to have Illinois switch from a flat rate to a progressive rate on its income tax. The 'No' campaign keeps stating that if the proposal passes, the General Assembly will usher in a whole swath of new tax policies, including taxing retiree benefits. The misleading, and I think, stupid part of that argument is that the General Assembly has the power to do all that now anyway. It can approve new taxes and abolish old ones, as well as raising and lowering any current taxes and fees as it sees fit. Illinois lawmakers raised the income tax rate several years ago, and it cost Pat Quinn his job as Governor, then we got 4 years of Bruce Rauner which got us nowhere. And yes, I do not underestimate the stupidity of people who vote. Sometimes I think of what we could be doing as a society now to benefit today's populace, but we don't because of things voters approved or disapproved many elections ago.
The Director applauded your enthusiastic support but when it comes to getting any grift your share will be minus $87.99 +S&H. It's a perfect fit for your AK-47