When you know you take voting seriously

[ckd]

When you're the 22nd (hr_macgirl) and 23rd (me) people to vote in your precinct, at 1830. (Polls closed at 2000.)

Special election to fill a vacant seat; the only actual race was in the Democratic primary, and so there was only one candidate on the ballot (plus the write-in line).

It was amusing to see how happy the poll workers were to see us, though.

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Oh dear lord I would be so, so, very tempted to start a quiet revolt for a write in candidate in such a situation. I just don't know what sort of lunatic I'd want to put in... Socialist? Green? Raving Monster Silly Party? The possibilities for chaos are endless with just a few hundred people and some strategic confusion.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I'd be very tempted to write in "None of the above".


Why yes, I am cynical...

[hr-macgirl.livejournal.com]

the unofficial results from the city (http://www.cambridgema.gov/alert.cfm?alert_id=65) report that the only candidate got 452 votes. No breakdown by precinct; you can make your own guesses on how many of those votes came from senior centers with a voting population with higher turnout than average.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I am not that religious about voting, but then again, from '01-'06, I was only able to vote by absentee, and only then in federal elections. (I may start being a lot more religious about it now...)

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I was the 28th to vote at our polling station yesterday for the election... and my housemate #27. And this was at around 6:30 or so as well.

But I wanted to keep my record of not missing a single election, special election or primary in the City... because there's only a very tiny number of voters who can claim such on the rolls who have made every single one for the past 10 years.

[seborn.livejournal.com]

ha! 1830, voter #14.
Of course, my precinct only has about 400 people in it. Yours may be bigger.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Wow. We had the Republican primary for sheriff recently* and I was the 87th in my precinct at about 2pm.

*In Virginia, you don't register for a party and you can vote in either primary, but not both. In this case, there was not only not a Democratic primary, there won't be a Democratic candidate, so whoever won the Republican primary would be the sheriff. Fortunately, most people agreed with me and the guy I voted for won with 61%. The scary part was that the guy who wanted to make the sheriff's office into illegal immigration deportation central got 18%.