Do you vote in the primaries?
 

I'm taking my daughter to vote today. This will be the first time she has exercised her right to vote. That seems pretty momentous.

I was trying to remember when I first voted, I think it was for McGovern, but I'm not sure. I was young and politically very liberal back then.

couldn't since I'm an NPA and FL is a closed primary state.

Yes.



I voted for the man.


(I will not disclose who I voted for.)

ha... men

I am a republican....


Can you guess who I voted for?

Hawaii's primary elections are in September, so primarily only local politics is at issue. Couple that with a General Election when more than half the country has already voted and a winner declared by the networks before our polls close, voter turnout is proportionally low.

A sunny beach day and good November surf doesn't help either. :D

A reason why some people won't register to vote.
 

Registering to vote means your name gets thrown into the Jury pool database of names.

Some people avoid registering for that very reason: If you register to vote, your chance just DOUBLED for getting chosen for jury duty.

The other place from which names are pulled, to serve on jury duty, is the database of Drivers' licenses. But most people have one anyway.

I know someone who used to say that! And then she was called up for jury duty any way. I've been registered to vote since 1988, and haven't missed an election. I've been called up for jury duty exactly once in all that time - and was proud to serve.:UNCLESAM:

I got called up for jury duty.....


It was a good excuse to get out of class for a few days...

Louisiana once had open primaries but the G_d-D___ned party politicians couldn't allow that much freedom all at once so now I had to vote party affiliation. I voted for Richardson, the only member of my party affiliation who seems to have gotten through puberty unscathed. The G_d-D___ned party hack-activists ditched him long ago. Can't have any adults playing in the sandbox!

May have to change party affiliation, damn it.

B

Bot,
I have to disagree with you on this one.
The Primaries are party events designed so the party can pick its candidates. ( Maybe they should be finanaced by the parties!).
I do not understand "open" primaries where anyone can vote in either primary. Why should a democrat have a say in whom the repubs nominate, or vice versa? I know conservative dems who vote for what they see as the weaker candidate to give the repub a better shot. I think this is silly at the least, and detrimental to the country at its worst. Followed to its logical conclusion, open primaries with people voting for the weakest opposition candidate gives us the weakest and poorest choice of the possible candidates.
Oh wait, thats what we have, hmmmm.

Indiana's primarys are open to anybody but you can only vote in one. Although I am basically a democrat I usually vote in the Republican primaries since around here for local and state offices most of the democrats run unapposed in the primaries.

Now I will vote in the presidential primary as a democrat.

I am a ticket splitter who will vote for either party if I believe that person is the best for the job.

Tom W

The Mrs. and I did last week along with our youngest two who had no interest in anything we had to say. We got to play with our new optical scan machines. It's just not as satisfying as the old ones where you pull the levers and have that big lever for the curtain. Coloring in a circle and sticking it in what looks like a shredder just doesn't seem as official.

It was easy for the checkers to find our names on the list, ours was considerably shorter than the Democratic one. I joked with the lady at the desk that she probably hadn't been all that busy that day and she just kind of "harumphed" me. No sense of humor.

One strange thing, there is still a registered "voter" in at our address that hasn't been there in over 40 years at least. My wife tried to get it removed after the last presidential election but it's nearly impossible, the person has to do it themselves. She could be dead for all I know. Guess who got called for jury duty? :) (It is the first time we've ever seen any jury duty notices for her). No wonder so much voting fraud takes place.

I would agree with you if the parties paid for their own voting. But these primaries are at the public expense, my tax dollar. parties suck at the public tit and then get to have a private club.

B

The parities are at the tit how? It seems mainly that the election itself is at public expense which seems fine. How else?

Tom W