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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Storm Rider on 04 Feb 2008, 23:54
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OK, this thread is just a reminder to everyone that today, February 5th, is Super Tuesday, also known as the largest and most significant day of primary elections in the United States. If you are 18, registered to vote, and live in the following states:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Kansas
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Utah
West Virginia
Then your state is holding its election tomorrow! Check your state's website for polling places nearby, and many of them have special rules allowing you to change your affiliation when you vote if you would prefer to vote in a different primary than the one you're registered in. Or, if you're registered as an independent, make sure you know whether you are eligible to vote in the Democratic or Republican contests. Depending on your state, you may be able to vote in neither, one, or both. If you want to vote but haven't decided on a candidate yet, I would humbly suggest http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm (http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm) as a good place to find all of the candidates and decide which one lines up most with your own political beliefs. There's still plenty of time to do some research, as polls usually stay open until 8 PM on your local time. This is not the place for discussion of the relative merits of the individual candidates, because the last thing I want is for this thread to get locked. This thread's only purpose is to encourage everyone to exercise your civic duty and vote. Voter apathy is a huge problem in America, and refusing to vote just because the candidates don't 'represent you' is just encouraging complicity to constant dissatisfaction with the system and just prevents us as a whole from changing government for the better. So regardless of which party or person you support, voting is important! Especially for young people (which make up a large portion of us here) who want to have their voices heard.
Again, let's please not make this into a flame war about Candidates X or Y, this is just a reminder about contributing to the democratic process, especially in two very close contests on both sides.
Also, a note about the link I provided: Rudy Guiliani has officially dropped out of the race, so while his name will still be on the ballot, he will be ineligible for any delegates from the states in this election. Furthermore, Alan Keyes is only on the ballot in a small number of states, so be aware that his candidacy is not valid on the national scale.
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Maryland is not on that list, and thus I will not be voting tomorrow. However, I still encourage others to vote as well. Go Democracy, Yay!
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LISTEN UP, PEOPLE.
As we all know, the forum rules specifically prohibit political discussions. But democracy is important! (Outside this forum, that is.) So I'm okay with this thread existing, but at the first instance of praising or criticising specific candidates, I will lock it. Without hesitation. Unless god himself (i.e., Jeph) comes in and tells me not to. So don't be responsible for getting a thread locked! Just get out there and vote. Vote proud, vote strong, vote often don't vote often, because that's illegal.
And don't try and test me on this.
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Sonuvabitch, I won't be voting either
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john sharkey 08 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Sharkey).
not praising or criticizing! just...huh. i mean i always figured there are always a few crazy people running for political positions, but presidential candidates! the things wikipedia tells you.
anyways sorry for a useless contribution to this thread i am just somewhat sad about not being able to vote.
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There is no primary for independents! They either decide their nominees internally or the candidate runs without the support of a party.
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john sharkey 08 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Sharkey).
I found out about him roughly a year ago, aren't I special.
If your favourite candidate doesn't get in, please remember that you have at least have choice unlike some countries.
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Last time I voted, later on in the day I received some truly excellent fellatio. (http://www.nee-antwerpen.be/index-eng.htm)
I am too stupid (i.e. 17) to vote, apparently.
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Hmmm, so british/scottish elections are better than those we have here.
Last time i voted, i walked home in the rain :(
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Last time I voted, the sun was shining, there was a barbecue at the polling place, somebody's pet dog was inside the polling place waiting for its owner to finish voting, kids were playing on the street, and I ate some excellent gelati on the walk back home.
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Last time I voted I was sent to another polling place because I live on the wrong side of the street. It started raining and then later I went to a really bad party. Next election better be more awesome. Maybe I'll go to the movies.
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Hmm, last time I voted, I had to go back to my old town since I hadn't changed my registration. It was a pain in the ass, but it was a beautiful day!
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Last time I voted I was treated to the unintentional comedy of a really stupid couple barging in the "OUT" door, ignoring all the very clear signs telling you where to go and asking the nearest official-looking person "hey mate, where can we vote in here?"
Later there was coffee.
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Last time I voted, it rained.
It's raining today, too. Weird.
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I will vote, and there will be fireworks. Mostly because my friend is using super tuesday to have a bbq.
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Man, voting in Massachusetts is not very BBQ friendly.
Damn you, winter!
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I'm presently boned on voting. I am legally registered to vote in NH and was unable to make it up for the NH primaries. I was unable to switch my voter registration to MA as I have been unable to change my license over due to some restriction on my NH license I still haven't had explained to me. Hopefully my shit is all sorted out by November.
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Same for me. I am currently living too far from home to vote, and as I forgot to have my mom send me an absentee ballot, I will not be voting today. However I will make sure I am able to vote in November. I ain't gonna miss my first presidential election!
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i am voting all the way from italy!
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I am probably gonna vote, but the polling place is rather far and I'd be walking. I mean, that wouldn't stop me from voting in the general election, but this is a primary, plus I live in Illinois which is pretty much guaranteed to go to Obama.
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I can't vote in the democrat's primary today to the best of my knowledge, I'm registered as socialist
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Edited: due to danger alert and not wanting to be "that guy"
Just go vote. It is pretty awesome.
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danger danger will robinson
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I can't vote in the democrat's primary today to the best of my knowledge, I'm registered as socialist
I did not see a little "check here for socialism" box when I registered to vote.
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Edit: Uh, I posted a mistake!
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I can't vote in the democrat's primary today to the best of my knowledge, I'm registered as socialist
I did not see a little "check here for socialism" box when I registered to vote.
i checked other and wrote eco-socialist, but alas, the us would not indulge me.
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I am probably gonna vote, but the polling place is rather far and I'd be walking.
huh, I had thought it was far away, but I got the address wrong. Actually it's the community center just across the street from me. I will go after lunch.
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my ballet came in the mail.
this is good because now i don't have to walk down to the firehouse/bar & grill/preschool/voting place and talk to drunk hillbillies.
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Just got back from casting my ballot!
Guys, everybody knows that voting increases your sex appeal by over 500 percent. Seriously, there have been studies on this.*
*May not actually be a factual finding.
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So it turns out that to vote in North Dakota, you must have lived there for one month.
I have been here for a year and a half.
I voted!
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*May not actually be a factual finding.
Well it should be.
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(http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2871/webcam2008020513352ez6.png)
Hey, ladies.
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So I see you voted! Rowr.
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a300/calenlass/votergasms.png)
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WHY DO YOU GET STICKERS?
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This is what happened the last time I voted:
We threw a big street party to celebrate!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/branston_pickle/warehouse1.jpg)
There were shenanigans...
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5768681,00.jpg)
Then the riot police came...
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5767782,00.jpg)
...and started hitting people.
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5767798,00.jpg)
The End.
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WHY DO YOU GET STICKERS?
You see, with declining voter turnout in virtually every polling district, they had to find some kind of incentive to have people vote.
It turns out that the only thing Americans love more than soft drinks and obesity is low grade adhesives attached to paper.
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It would bring even more people in if they were scented
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But none of that "citrus-scented" shit. It always smells like Pinesol.
Anyway, I'm really excited about being able to vote. I've always been extremely politically active and interested in politics and current events. Living in Wisconsin, I figured that the primary here wouldn't could for anything, since it's a month after "super Tuesday." But on the Democratic side at least, it looks like things will go on until at least then. So maybe my vote will actually count for something.
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I have to wait for november....BAWWWWWWW!
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I voted but I didn't get an "I voted!" sticker... just one I snagged from the booth of the candidate I supported.
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Fuck democracy.
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Last time I voted I talked to a pretty girl who was handing out these cards that summed up the parties and where they stood on things. She gave me a balloon.
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"You're a voting adult. Have a balloon."
weird.
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In an ill-advised fit of interest I decided to check out what the American networks were showing. Everything I need to know about American politics, I get from TV, and tonight is no exception:
ABC - Super Tuesday coverage.
NBC - Super Tuesday coverage.
CBS - Super Tuesday coverage.
Fox - a rerun of House.
P.S. I found it interesting that Ron Paul was not only mentioned by CNN, but he also garnered about 3-4% on average. I'm not going to comment on his policies one way or the other because that's not what this thread is about, but frankly it's good that as an independent he got any votes at all, let alone a few thousand per state. Am I naive in thinking that's encouraging?
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Fuck democracy.
No, fuck you.
In an ill-advised fit of interest I decided to check out what the American networks were showing. Everything I need to know about American politics, I get from TV, and tonight is no exception:
ABC - Super Tuesday coverage.
NBC - Super Tuesday coverage.
CBS - Super Tuesday coverage.
Fox - a rerun of House.
P.S. I found it interesting that Ron Paul was not only mentioned by CNN, but he also garnered about 3-4% on average. I'm not going to comment on his policies one way or the other because that's not what this thread is about, but frankly it's good that as an independent he got any votes at all, let alone a few thousand per state. Am I naive in thinking that's encouraging?
No man, he's running as a Republican. He ran as an independent a while back.
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Yeah, right. I knew that, I just typed "independent" because that's largely what he is, as far as his supporters are concerned. "Underdog," perhaps?
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Wisconsin's primary is on the 19th, so be ready!
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Man, why did all the other Aussies have such excellent voting experiences? When I voted it was stinking hot and I got given the evil eye by a bunch of old Liberal Party ladies who could obviously tell I was from the "loony left" by my long hair and sexual swagger. Also it was at a hospital and those places are fucking depressing no matter why you're there.
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Sexual swagger.
Ha ha.
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She is questioning your sexuality.
EDIT: There's no good way to quote previous messages in order for this to make sense, so I will simply resign this post to being a shitty start to a new page.
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They've got the C.N.N. coverage on the T.V. here in Australia.
Wolf Blitzer doesn't look nearly as scary as I'd always imagined he would. I'm a little disappointed.
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Yeah, his name is way misleading.
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Now Mike Huckabee's on the T.V. I haven't really been following this thing very closely, so I don't know where he's going with all this talk of stones and armour and whatnot. I think he might be a little stoned.
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I am too young to vote, yet, I still enjoy watching the coverage of the elections. Not because I care one way or the other about who wins, but because I like to see these demonstrations on the thinking of American minds.
For instance, the fact that a very large majority of voters aged 17-49 vote for Obama according to exit polls. Upwards of 80%. Yet, due to the fact that probably 50% of voters are over the age of 50, this does not mean much.
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She is questioning your sexuality.
She can question all she wants.
And I'll just sit here, bein sexy.
Provin her wrong.
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Yesterday, I overheard someone in passing saying that they would vote for Huckabee just because his name sounded cooler that Rommey or McCain.
That's kind of like rooting for a college basketball team because you like the mascot, except...you know...slightly more meaningful
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She can question all she wants.
I was not questioning your sexuality, I was questioning your swagger.
The sexuality I have seen.
Yeah.
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I'll just sit here, bein sexy.
I am stealing that. Thanks!
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Man, why did all the other Aussies have such excellent voting experiences? When I voted it was stinking hot and I got given the evil eye by a bunch of old Liberal Party ladies who could obviously tell I was from the "loony left" by my long hair and sexual swagger. Also it was at a hospital and those places are fucking depressing no matter why you're there.
I had to travel across the city by public transport while it was pissing down raining and I had a couple of joints and a flask of Jamesons.
Maybe you just need to prepare for voting day a little better, Dovey
Also, happy voting day America! Rock on!
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Anyone with voter reg gets to ride free on the public transportation here on election days. Doesn't make a difference to me since I have a semester bus pass, but it's a cool policy.
What isn't cool is that my state's Democratic primaries don't count. Dammit, Michigan.
Also, re: Ron Paul's party - I think that most of the people who voted for him think of him as an independent, but were more encouraged to vote for him since he was running in one of the big parties. One of the major setbacks for independents is that no one truly believes they have a chance. Even if half the people in the country loved an independent candidate, that fact would probably get no press and voters would go, "Better not waste my vote" and pick the lesser of two evils from the big two.
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Paul himself is essentially running as an independent under a Republican banner because he can get more exposure that way, and he's said as much in interviews.
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Any of the candidates I would have really felt good about voting for have dropped out of the race. The nominees will probably be all but decided before my state's primary even occurs. I am all about democracy as a concept, but sometimes the execution leaves me feeling very jaded.
I will still vote, but I will not feel any real sense of accomplishment in doing so, other than raising my sex appeal, of course. It works. I find myself at least 50% more attracted to a person if they are wearing one of those "I Voted" stickers.
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i voted absentee for christine smith, since i'm a registered librarian. or some shit.
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Fuck all you guys who got to vote today. Oregon's primary is on May 20th, the 48th Democratic primary and 46th Republican primary. Not only that but I won't get to have any kind of fun polling-place story even then because my state does its elections 100% vote-by-mail. This became true when I was, I believe, 17 years old, so I've never gotten to vote in a polling-place, and I quite possibly never will since I can definitely see myself living in Oregon for the rest of my life. The point is, I would have liked to vote today, that would have been awesome.
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http://www.votergasm.com/ (http://www.votergasm.com/)
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We had a caucus here. It was dumb as shit because nobody in my district knew what the hell they were doing. I'm pretty certain the numbers that came out of my district were wrong, and that is extremely lame. People were leaving after the straw poll (which is not the actual delegate vote) and shit like that. Ugh it was frustrating. I wish we had just had an effing primary.
Democracy inaction. (yes I spaced that right.)
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Registered independents like myself don't get to vote in Oklahoma primaries. I knew this when I regiestered, but for some reason I didn't realize that it was a dumb thing to do. No vote = no sticker.
I will be changing my registration before the next primaries. :roll:
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We had a caucus here in Kansas too. The state decided they didn't have enough money to put on a primary, so they decided to just have a caucus. It was pretty terribly organized--entire districts had to file into a building that due to fire codes could only have 150 ish people in at a time. And I think they underestimated the number of people in oh-so-red Kansas who would come and vote for the democratic nominee. So you ended up with probbaly 3000 or more people lining up to try and get into this tiny little building.
This was all in freezing rain, mind you.
I was in line 2 and a half hours.
Best first vote ever.
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* Pledge-fulfilling sex must be consensual, legal, and generous. And safe. And hot.
* Acceptable sexual positions include, but are not limited to: missionary, doggy-style, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, leapfrog, butterfly, humpback whale, cling wrap, squashing of the deck chair, accordion, reverse piggy-back, advanced ("twin") leapfrog. Male-male, female-female, group, and oral variations of these positions can also be used to satisfy the pledge.
* Taking the pledge indicates a good-faith effort to abide by its provisions. Pledge-takers who have violated withholding provisions become effective non-voters, and are barred from sex with fellow pledge-takers.
* Pledge-takers who fail to vote are forbidden from masturbating. (Exemption: pledge-takers who are not eligible to vote are encouraged to masturbate frequently.)
* "Cybersex" does not satisfy the pledge, dorkwad.
* Non-voters may render themselves eligible for sex with American Heroes by voting at least twice in local, primary, and/or 2006 congressional races. Those voting in only one such race qualify to perform, but not receive, oral sex on American Heroes.
* Achievement of a Votergasm during election-night sex is probable, but not guaranteed. Those encountering difficulty reaching Votergasm are encouraged to slow things down, talk about it, and reduce the pressure. Other techniques include the use of massage oils, toys, "dirty talk," "ballot stuffing," and "exit polls."
* Per the U.S. Constitution, children conceived on election night are eligible for gigantic interest-free loans from the U.S. government, and special t-shirts.
HURR
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Ballot stuffing.
Exit polls.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
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"Electing a member to Congress".
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Ass or Trunk, an interactive stereotyping game
Wow, so awesome.
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I voted and talked about dinosaurs with the clerk, she said they were a lie and that I can't get into heaven if I believe in them.
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I can't even think of a witty remark... I... dude.
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On the plus side, judging by that it sounds like heaven's going to be pretty much like pre-school anyway so, hey, who'd want to hang out there for eternity?
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Wisconsinites! Go Vote!
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And Hawaiians.
I'm not sure I'm going to vote today. I don't really know if I am capable of making an educated choice between the evils...
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While democracy is the ultimate goal of this forum, due to the present volatile nature of the forum political landscape, all discussion on democracy, either in this thread or not, is hereby banned, and shall remain so until your supreme ruler decides it is time for fair and open elections to recommence.
This thread is declared locked, violators will be shot on sight.
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EDIT: fuck
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DAMN YOU JOE
RATATATATAT
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I know it's been a while, but...
People in Ohio and Texas! GET YER BUTTS OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW!
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And Rhode Island and Vermont, too!
I was actually going to bump this myself, but Linds is proactive which is awesome!
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voting really is rad (http://www.izo.com/2008/03/to-mark-the-pre.html) (sorry, NSFW)
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Dude. Mark that NSFW.
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I want to vote! I am old enough now!
...damn Canada, having elections right before my birthday. It takes away the novelty of voting if you have to wait an entire year before you can ACTUALLY vote...
oh well, at least I can spend it gambling!
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I have no idea other than a few people who live in Ohio, Texas, Vermont, or Rhode Island, but did you vote? I DID!
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Michigan and Florida may get another chance, too bad I won't be able to vote in either.