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Post by Odin on Nov 2, 2004 2:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by SaltNPepper on Nov 2, 2004 7:27:32 GMT -5
While this is a nice message that I agree with, I don't think it is appropriate for the women's volleyball board and should be moved. Fair is fair!
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Nov 2, 2004 7:42:59 GMT -5
While this is a nice message that I agree with, I don't think it is appropriate for the women's volleyball board and should be moved. Fair is fair! I agree with SaltNPepper. This does not belong in a volleyball board. Move it to the news and politics forum. In fact, I saw the title and came into the thread to say just that.
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Post by D'oh J. Simpson on Nov 2, 2004 12:44:34 GMT -5
Vote early, vote often.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Nov 2, 2004 12:57:04 GMT -5
My wife isn't able to vote. Does anyone want to go to the polling place and vote using her name?
What's to stop anyone from doing that? They never asked me for ID or anything. I just wrote down my name and signed the book. How do they know it was me?
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Post by TheSantaBarbarian on Nov 2, 2004 13:48:20 GMT -5
My wife isn't able to vote. Does anyone want to go to the polling place and vote using her name? What's to stop anyone from doing that? They never asked me for ID or anything. I just wrote down my name and signed the book. How do they know it was me? First, I think for one day, this is on topic. Agent Buchwald, I think it depends on where you are. In Florida I had to show my drivers licence and my voter registration card. They entered the fact that I had voted into a laptop (which I assume was linked to a data base.) BTW: I voted last Friday just to make sure that if there was a problem I would have Monday to rectify it.
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Post by Mumsie on Nov 2, 2004 14:05:41 GMT -5
First, I think for one day, this is on topic. Agent Buchwald, I think it depends on where you are. In Florida I had to show my drivers licence and my voter registration card. They entered the fact that I had voted into a laptop (which I assume was linked to a data base.) BTW: I voted last Friday just to make sure that if there was a problem I would have Monday to rectify it. Did you check your chads?
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Nov 2, 2004 14:10:25 GMT -5
First, I think for one day, this is on topic. Agent Buchwald, I think it depends on where you are. In Florida I had to show my drivers licence and my voter registration card. They entered the fact that I had voted into a laptop (which I assume was linked to a data base.) BTW: I voted last Friday just to make sure that if there was a problem I would have Monday to rectify it. I don't think they can require a driver's license to vote, and unless a voter registration card has a picture, I don't see how that helps. My wife could just give her voter registration card to a friend who had already voted elsewhere.
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Nov 2, 2004 14:30:15 GMT -5
I've never been asked for ID when voting. I always wondered what I would do if I went to the polls to discover that someone had voted in my place.
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Post by SaltNPepper on Nov 2, 2004 14:43:05 GMT -5
First, I think for one day, this is on topic. I voted for the first time in the 1968 presidential election and it's possible I may have miss one general election over the years, but I don't think so - I have already voted today. I know I've missed several primaries though. I don't believe Americans have the right to complain about their leaders/government if they do not vote. However, I find it extremely inconsistant of our administrator to "warn us" and insist that off topic thread be "moved" to the correct board and then he does it himself with this thread. I was a supervisor in a production facility for a dozen or so years and one thing I learned is that you couldn't get or expect the respect of your employees if you didn't operate by the same rules as them. How can our administrator ask us to not post off topic threads when he does it himself? How can he gain and hold our respect as an administrator if he is going to ignore some of the rules himself? I don't think he can. IMO, the people that are passionate about voting aren't going to forget to vote today and I doubt those that are not passionate about it will decide to vote because they've seen a thread on a women's volleyball board. I need another soapbox, this one's about ready to break.
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Post by Wolfgang on Nov 2, 2004 14:52:43 GMT -5
They just asked me for my ballot. No ID.
There were at least a dozen propositions and measures on the ballot. It took a long time for me to study them. A headache, really. I just have one thing to say: poison pill.
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Post by TheSantaBarbarian on Nov 2, 2004 15:01:15 GMT -5
I don't think they can require a driver's license to vote, and unless a voter registration card has a picture, I don't see how that helps. My wife could just give her voter registration card to a friend who had already voted elsewhere. They required signature verification. I don't know whether a non-picture verification would have been okay. Given the contentious nature of this election, I didn't want to press the issue.
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Post by BonJoeV on Nov 2, 2004 15:14:41 GMT -5
They required signature verification. I don't know whether a non-picture verification would have been okay. Given the contentious nature of this election, I didn't want to press the issue. At my polling place they didn't ask for any sort of ID, I just signed my name and took the ballot. Hmmm... I wonder what would have happened if I had signed my name as Osama Bin Laden? Huge, funky ballot also. It was stuffed into a "security folder", aka... file folder. After marking the ballot with a "Bic" pen it was stuffed into a black box for scanning. I was thinking to myself... "This is going to be all F'd up".
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Post by Mumsie on Nov 2, 2004 15:33:55 GMT -5
I need another soapbox, this one's about ready to break. Try the Atkins Diet. It has had some success. ;D
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Post by Wolfgang on Nov 2, 2004 15:36:30 GMT -5
While this is a nice message that I agree with, I don't think it is appropriate for the women's volleyball board and should be moved. Fair is fair! Life, like this forum, is not fair. When Od-in wants to be heard, he will post wherever he wants, regardless of relevance. It's the small man syndrome.
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