Go Vote.

[joebob]

No speeches here. Doesn't have to be for everything on the ballot - maybe just a tax you do (or don't) agree with. Hate 24 out of 25 candidates for the jobs? Vote for the one you do like.

Even if you've moved and forgotten to update your registration - HAVA allows you to take an ID (state ID with your picture - old or new address - or a current utility statement, bank statement, etc.) to your local poll and cast a "walk-in" ballot which is tallied at the Board of Elections office manually this evening.

[Unrequited]

I voted on the way in to work this morning. The toughest thing was trying to pick nine people for Cincinnati City Council. I could only come up with seven, and two of them were borderline. :confused:

[Kruschev]

I'ma do my usual voting day tradition get all liquored up, call my sister and tell her to pick me up cause I'm too drunk to drive to go and vote. Believe me she isn't busy at work and is just itching for an excuse to take an extended lunch. She might as well vote while she's there. On a side note, this country has too many elections. I refuse to take part in any election that's not November, unless I feel the need to.

[drougan]

There is literally nothing to vote on here in the district.

I'm not kidding. Go figure.

[jvk]

Agreed.

I grow more and more dissapointed in the 42% voter turn out, than I do the piss poor efforts the elected phone in during their terms.

[joebob]

Just got back from voting. Absolutely no line.

Casting a provisional ballot was total cake. I wrote my name, old & new addresses and license number, the poll-worker checked a box and signed it, and bam, into the ballot box.

Polls are open until 7:30 tonight - and if you're in line, you get to vote.

[ms. chevious]

i voted today, and have a sticker to prove it.

my poling place was sorta hidden - i hope that doesn't discourage people from voting.

it was also my first time on an electronic touch-screen machine...it seemed really easy.

[Artpunchehorse]

I sat this one out. New to the state of NC. Honestly, if I'm not voting on President or stadiums, I tend to not care

[jneale]

there were more people than ever this AM - we've got a stupid tax to build a YMCA, I'm in hopes all those people were against.

[bestlaidplans]

There is nothing to vote on here.

[Motti]

I always thought this was interesting in the US: voting on workdays.

We only have elections here on Sundays. Then again, you are required by Law to vote (or pay a very low fine, which is more of a nuisance than a penalty).

[Kruschev]

Down with jails! A buddy came and picked me up, my sister was busy for once. I honestly didn't care about who was running since it was Colerain twnsp. I hadn't changed my address and they didn't seem to mine or care.

[Breeze]

There is literally nothing to vote on here in the district.

I'm not kidding. Go figure.
Much the same here. There is one special election for a State House district, for which only 764 people are eligible to vote. Other than that, bubkes.

[Sushi]

I voted. Our do-nothing mayor is running unopposed. I told my husband to write me in for mayor when he voted. I was going to write myself in as well, but there is no spot for it. I didn't know that a write-in candidate must still register with the Board of Elections in order to have a space to write in his/her name. That troubled me and the kind poll workers who took the time to call the Board of Elections and ask about write-in candidates. There's something troubling to me about the fact that you must register in order to be a write-in candidate.

I ended up not casting a vote for mayor, but voted for council and countywide and statewide issues.

By the way, I hate, hate, hate the electronic voting machines. Give me a paper trail, motherfuckers.

[markalot]

You were probably removed from the voter polls anyway Breeze.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_re_us/rv_voters_purge_1

:D

[Breeze]

You were probably removed from the voter polls anyway Breeze.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_re_us/rv_voters_purge_1

:D
Nope. I checked with the Board of Elections last month, just to be sure. I'm active.

[eyeball]

I packed up the kids around 11 am and went to vote.

I couldn't let a couple pesky things pass and had to support a couple others.

I also did a provisional ballot, but I've done those before. we moved every 1.5 years or so. lol.

I was ballot 37 in my precinct.

*sigh*

[jneale]

By the way, I hate, hate, hate the electronic voting machines. Give me a paper trail, motherfuckers.

Ours is this nifty scan deal - color in the blocks then watch the machine scan it. It looked like a shredder, but they tell me it wasn't.

[Sushi]

Ours is this nifty scan deal - color in the blocks then watch the machine scan it. It looked like a shredder, but they tell me it wasn't.
And you believed them?

[seafoamgreen]

By the way, I hate, hate, hate the electronic voting machines. Give me a paper trail, motherfuckers.

word, i want my election fraud to include at least some labour. How else are the kids today going to learn how to dispose of documents? Clicking a key on a computer smacks of laziness.

[wileE]

Took my son with me to vote. Told him I voted against the strip club law.

[jneale]

Took my son with me to vote. Told him I voted against the strip club law.

And would someone please tell me why in the year of our Lord 2007 in the middle of a war we're voting on this? Of all the stupid crap to wasting time on this is the most uber of stupid.

[wileE]

And would someone please tell me why in the year of our Lord 2007 in the middle of a war we're voting on this? Of all the stupid crap to wasting time on this is the most uber of stupid.
No kidding. I told my son I voted no because it's not the gov'ts business.

[ICONOCLAST420]

I voted against the strip club law too. I hope this issue didn't draw the fundie neo-cons out of the woodwork, I'm afraid of the people they would elect.

[eyeball]

I, too, voted against the strip club law.

[Unrequited]

Our votes on the strip club law didn't count, it wasn't supposed to be on the ballot.

[echs]

No kidding. I told my son I voted no because it's not the gov'ts business.

Voted no for the same reason. They have better things to regulate.

I voted at 5 this evening and I was the only one there for the couple minutes it took to fill in the squares with the cheap ballpoint pen they made me use. The shredder/scanner stole my ballot and the woman gave me a sticker.

[Stoock]

Our votes on the strip club law didn't count, it wasn't supposed to be on the ballot.

Yes, it seemed that one too many registered voters named Chesty Morgana signed the petitions, but too late to have it stripped from the poles, I mean polls.

[eyeball]

I did not know that. were they supposed to tell us?

[juggles]

Yeah, I snuck in this morning before going to work. I confess to a strong sense of Schadenfreude in watching the incumbent embarrassment of a governor in Kentucky lose by close to twenty points. It's one thing to be incompetent. It's quite another to be incompetent and arrogant about it.

And I voted to keep this mustache:

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/images/candidates/b26/C26985D0000-00-00.jpg

from becoming attorney general.

[Smoker29]

Voting is so easy for me. I live a block away. I walked there and back in under 15 minutes. Love it!!

[joebob]

Voted no for the same reason. They have better things to regulate.
You're a bit late. Ohio's SOS and the State Supreme Court ruled against this petition being on the ballot, but they were already printed. Regardless, Ohio legislature voted last year to change the laws in the state to the laughable way they are now. No nudity after midnight; no contact at all anymore (translation: no dollars slipped into garters, no lapdances for the grooms-to-be...). And THAT bullshit was the compromise version.

[Unrequited]

The voting patterns in Cincinnati and Hamilton County continue to confound me. All of City Council reelected? Yes to helping seniors and the mentally disabled (good) but no to the jail tax (bad). Guess that means we can count on lots of healthy seniors and mentally disabled getting mugged and assaulted by the felons out on the street. :confused:

[joebob]

The voting patterns in Cincinnati and Hamilton County continue to confound me. All of City Council reelected? Yes to helping seniors and the mentally disabled (good) but no to the jail tax (bad). Guess that means we can count on lots of healthy seniors and mentally disabled getting mugged and assaulted by the felons out on the street. :confused:
Don't forget the brand new school board, but the rejected school levy for Cincinnati Public.

[wileE]

Don't forget the brand new school board, but the rejected school levy for Cincinnati Public.
Yeah, that's just stupid. I hope these people that are voting against the levies are also letting the state gov't know the school funding system is still unconstitutional.

[Unrequited]

Don't forget the brand new school board, but the rejected school levy for Cincinnati Public.

I know. Granted, I voted for the levy, but, given how poorly managed the Cincinnati Public Schools are, I can see why some people don't want to keep throwing money down the rabbit hole. Lots of overpaid administrators, but we'll screw the kids and fire more teachers.

[Macpherson]

i have a hard time believing CPS can't turn the fiscal situation around. I think the problem has been that the administration sits back and takes their cut first then fucks everyone else over.

as far as the jail, I'm all for a new jail. I'm all against Hamilton County Commissioners trying to force it down our throats without a vote, and then, they add a bunch of fluff to try to get as much out of the tax levy as possible. I don't think they ever once tried to figure out how to build the jail without a tax levy. They just say it's not possible without any concrete evidence. Portune has been a weasel in the whole thing and this will probably come back to get him next year.

[frizgolf]

As I work a floor above the Commissioners and see them in the elevator all the time, I shall refrain from telling how I voted within this public forum... :p

[DaHood]

Took my son with me to vote. Told him I voted against the strip club law.Fine. But did you take him to the strip club? You know, you never can start too young...

[classicgrrl]

CPS problem isn't salaries for the board - it's political infighting.

nearly every person on there is there for the title and prestige and truthfully wouldn't be able to get a budget done if their lives depended on it.

fire the lot of them and hire an outside consulting agency to do it.

[Unrequited]

CPS problem isn't salaries for the board - it's political infighting.

nearly every person on there is there for the title and prestige and truthfully wouldn't be able to get a budget done if their lives depended on it.

fire the lot of them and hire an outside consulting agency to do it.

I guess what I was alluding to was, they aren't worth their salaries, so, I agree with you.

[frizgolf]

So the jail tax got voted down, eh?
My ex-Colerain High schoolmate Todd Portune must be fidgeting these days.
I like him. He's good people. He was rather nervous about putting up a .25 mill tax increase and having it challenged by the petition drive. The commissioners must now make cuts, and the whole administration building will be feeling it.
I think the voters want not so much to put criminals on the streets as they want to decriminalize nonviolent and 'victimless' crimes, and also to reverse the recent trend toward ungodly bond amounts.
It's time to rewrite some laws. There is no money to throw at the problem.

[Unrequited]

So the jail tax got voted down, eh?
My ex-Colerain High schoolmate Todd Portune must be fidgeting these days.
I like him. He's good people. He was rather nervous about putting up a .25 mill tax increase and having it challenged by the petition drive. The commissioners must now make cuts, and the whole administration building will be feeling it.
I think the voters want not so much to put criminals on the streets as they want to decriminalize nonviolent and 'victimless' crimes, and also to reverse the recent trend toward ungodly bond amounts.
It's time to rewrite some laws. There is no money to throw at the problem.

Good points. And, perhaps Cincinnati can use its police resources more wisely?

http://www.wlwt.com/news/14538655/detail.html

Swell. We've got cops writing tickets for feeding parking meters in Hyde Park. Why don't we move those cops to areas where they can fight real crime?

[frizgolf]

Good points. And, perhaps Cincinnati can use its police resources more wisely?

http://www.wlwt.com/news/14538655/detail.html

Swell. We've got cops writing tickets for feeding parking meters in Hyde Park. Why don't we move those cops to areas where they can fight real crime?
Parking violations are a steady income stream, and pose no physical threat to the officer.