Posted on 10/30/2022 11:49:18 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
“shame that ‘Election Integrity’ is not the #1 issue”
“DITCH MAIL-IN BALLOTS AND VOTE IN PERSON ON ELECTION DAY”
I would, but I am bedridden due to amputation two-weeks ago. Can’t move, lots of pain.
I was first eligible to vote in 1968 when I turned 21. My father took me to the local polling place. It was a small, grey wooden shack on Jay Street in Rochester, New York. You went in one door, signed the registration book, voted in one of those mechanical machines, and left the building through the other door. Those machines were the most accurate, and I don't recall them breaking down very often. They had at least 6-8 machines lined up in a row for people to use. The candidates and their parties were listed in a roster on the wall of the machine. You were required to pull down the small handle under the candidate's name you wanted to vote for. It was easy and quick. When you were done voting, you pulled the curtain open with the same handle you used to close it. It hasn't been that long where I live in NY State, that they brought in the electronic machines.
“New York had these wonderful mechanical voting machines where you changed the state of a mechanical lever to vote, and opened the curtain with a big red lever which locked your votes and reset the levers. These machines were invented to limit paper ballot cheating, but like paper ballots, they would yield a tally by the early morning hours of the following day, and that was that.”
So now mechanical voting machines, with no paper trail and no audit ability are going to prevent cheating? And yes, I remember those old monster machines, and the red handle, they were very cool.
You mention the 1960 election, well Dems stole the Presidency in 1960 in Illinois, no vote by mail, no early voting, no digital wizardry.
I don’t trust voting except in person. I remember a few years ago in Hillsborough County FL, they sorted absentee ballots and most of the Republican ballots went to the trash. There was no traceability and Tampa/Hillsborough are a democrat stronghold.
“The first time I remember going with my Dad when he voted was 1960, New York”
The first time I pulled a lever in a Presidential election was for Eisenhower in 1952 when I was four, in New York. Of course, Mom was the voter, but she let me pull the lever for her. I hardly remember it, but it sounds like what you described — the curtain and big red lever.
“I was hoping that my same-day vote would not have to be an offset because some conservative somewhere was too lazy to vote on Election Day. I was hoping that my same day vote would add to the margin of victory instead. But I will do my best to deliver the conservatives a victory this year on Election Day.”
Wow, what a hero. Get some Ben-Gay, you’ll need it for your arm after you finish patting your self on the back.
Must be one of those early voters!
Let’s see...tonight we should hear if Bolsonaro is re-elected in Brazil. If they can get polling results from the Amazon rainforest in one evening we should be able to get quick results here.
Voting early is an obscenity to our political theology.
You are supposed to LISTEN to the candidates and their supporters. You are (in theory) supposed to make up your mind AFTER everything there is to be said has been said.
This is not supposed to be Kenya, where the Luo line up on one side of the road and vote for their predetermined tribe member and the Kikuyu line up on the other side and vote for their guy.
I know you don’t care about any of that, and in fact you probably have contempt for it. But, “Lex orandi, lex credendi” (the way you pray is the way you believe).
Otherwise, why have campaigns? Why have debates? Why cover the candidates?
Vote on July 4. Republicans vote for the Republican, Democrats vote for the Democrat. Most people, who hate ‘em both, get screwed (again).
Or, even better, cut off “donations” on Labor Day, total ‘em up, most money wins, swear the winner in on Indigenous People’s Day.
Yep. My wife and I were 2 of those election day votes for Kari!
In the 50s you simply went to the location to vote on Tuesday, election day. You did this or you did not vote. Everybody knew this. On one or two of them, my father took me. The booth had a flimsy gray curtain of sorts. My dad lifted me up to reach at the actual levers, for the candidates he wanted, and pull them down. Then we left
The wait was 10 minutes or so
Where did I say I was for early voting?
Maybe we should announce Election Day an official holiday...and celebrate like it was the Fourth of July!
Celebrate our freedom to vote on that Day. Close down Wall Street! and DC and all governments. Everyone has day off and has to vote that day.
Im not even voting early
Spreading more FUD are you sam...
As an aside I will vote however I choose to do so...inperson, by mail, early if I can...just as long as I can vote. This stolen vote stuff has gotten out of hand. When you have people accosting voters at polling places because they drop their ballot off is stupid. I promise you this old man will get right back in anybody’s face that attempts to mess with me while I am voting.
Since you are so worried about your vote being messed with sam I have a question...are you working at a voting site as a poll worker to help ensure no problems arise??? If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem...as we used to say in my younger days...:)
You can certainly choose to vote early as you wish. If convenience is more important to you, I cannot stop you from wasting your vote. But I will show up on election day itself to help offset those who are getting their votes stolen by voting early.
I disagree...
It’s this kind of thinking that is contributing to the divisiveness in this country. Besides sam the USPS can barely get the mail delivered...and you think they can plan and execute some kind of conspiracy to “lose” votes do you..??
I just don't trust mail-in votes. Especially when they tape butcher paper over the windows so we can't see what's going on when they count them.
Well sam you entitled to believe what you want about early or mail in voting. And thank you for letting me know it’s OK by you if I vote...however I choose to do so. I was concerned that you might not approve...given your predilection for conspiracy stuff...:)
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