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Post by lavandulagirl on Feb 12, 2008 8:53:26 GMT -5
Here in VA, the voters can vote for any party in the primaries. The goofy part is, you have to declare which party, in front of everyone, and then stand in that line. When you get to the front, (there are only major party designations... no Green, Libertarian, etc) the little old people check your ID, then shout to the old people at the other table who you are and what your address is. So much for secret ballots, huh? I have been torn as to who gets my vote, but decided to cast for Obama. The democratic ticket still had Chris Dodd on it. In fact, I think it had all the original dems on it. And I voted on the diebold! Think they could have updated that in the last couple months? 
Anyway - there seemed to be a lot more Dems, or folks in the Dem line anyway, like me, voting this AM.
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Post by Jim on Feb 12, 2008 13:25:35 GMT -5
I voted undeclared republican in our election. I haven't educated myself on most of the candidated platforms...
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Post by MawkHawk on Feb 12, 2008 13:45:24 GMT -5
LG, that's a funny story. The MI system is similar to VA it seems, except for the name / address part and standing in the party line. But you can vote for either party's candidates. FWIW, I voted for Romney (poor me) cuz he's a native Detroiter and sympathetic to our plight.
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Post by lavandulagirl on Feb 12, 2008 16:52:21 GMT -5
Being a really ejamacated primary voter, and using the electric ballot thingy, I was unable to write in my husband, as I usually do in cases where I haven't decided (or where I have, since every choice is crap). So I picked the guy who looks most like my husband. I can't do the Huckabee thing, for so many reasons I can't list them all here, and the rest of the major party field besides the junior senator from Illinois is just SO MUCH of the same old same old... I can smell the stink of OLD from DC wafting through the mountains to my rural VA home... we need something different....
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Post by downinmyback on Feb 14, 2008 12:57:32 GMT -5
I voted for Hillary Clinton (smile) image that a southern redneck voting for a woman for president. It must have been all of the pain meds that i am on. (smile). I wonder who Mrs C voted for LMAO.
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Post by bunkie on Feb 15, 2008 10:12:19 GMT -5
lg, i can't believe you touched one of those 'machines', ewwww?! we have the same set up here with the little old people and some sort of touch machines, but we've opted out for the 'absentee' ballot. ours is due the 19th...waiting for a miracle! peace, bunkie.
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