Posted on 10/18/2008 4:27:01 PM PDT by Goldsborough
My Oregon vote by mail ballot arrived today. I turned it around in about 10 minutes and drove it to a blue box for pick up today. I was so excited I posted my first ever thread. So, please forgive the vanity outburst, but I feel like an early skirmisher or something.
You can say that again!
“His whole family are Dems and are voting for McCain.”
That is so absolutely telling!
I’ve said it for weeks:
We. Are. Going. To. Win.
Quote me now and thank me for keeping the faith, later. :)
I will!
Oregon has done away with traditional polling places. All ballots are mailed in. There is a cut-off beyond which no ballots are accepted but once that point is arrived at all the ballots are counted fairly quickly.
I filled mine out this afternoon and will drop it in the mail Monday. When it gets to election headquarters my signature (on the outside of the envelope) will be checked against the file to make sure it was indeed signed by me. Then it is stored until they’re ready to count the votes when the envelope is opened, exposing a second, “security” envelope inside of which is my ballot.
The ballot this year is rather long, 8 1/2 by 17 I believe, and printed on both sides. It will be unfolded and run through an optical reader to actually count the votes. If there’s a problem of any sort, the ballot is kicked out and evaluated by hand. While there’s always a few ballots that make the whole process a bit longer, we generally have a good idea of the results before the next morning.
At least that’s how it’s supposed to work. Prayer helps.
Bravo - my husband sent his in from canuckistan a week ago. We almost drove down to Buffalo to mail it. Congrats on your choice and your first thread.
I have no choice. I can't get into the polling place in my wheelchair. Besides, I know my registrar and she knows me and will make sure my vote counts.
There was another thread talking about electronic voting machines and hacking and all and someone suggested making election day a national holiday and make April 15 instead of in cold (sometimes rainy) November. I would drive to the county office on an April day and vote in person...not in November on a possibly rainy day.
Mail gets lost without even trying so you can imagine how many will fall behind the machines addressed to the Voting super's office.
Hell, I still worry sometimes when I have to point out my name from across the table and the book is upside down for me at the precinct!!
Wife couldn’t figure out how to vote on judges and Amendments, Called the Rs and Ds and asked — they were opposites. Easy peasy.
This election is in Gods hands, lets pray God still believes in us..
I love hard-copy ballots that use optical readers. My daughter was in Portland after moving from Texas where they also used optical reader hard-copy ballots. Now she is in Seattle, Washington. At least there she will cancel out some other Conservatives vote and not your’s. I hate what liberal college education did to her....I want to disown her, but I can’t...only pray for her salvation to Christ and from the dark side of Liberalism.
I wonder if you can send your absentee ballet by certified mail ? the receiver would have to sign for it.
I put ours in the window because I was afraid of the same thing. Sorry about that.
OOps steel= steal.....
Me, too! - mail in - Colorado Springs
Good goin’!
I don’t mind vanities from first-time posting, proud McCain/Palin voters. :^)
The owner...in his 60s...ironically named JOE!!!! said....I fought the damn communists in my own country (Vietnam) and was put in a prison camp for almost a year until I escaped with 2 American soldiers to the south part of Vietnam. I am not voting for a communist to take over this country!
Joe had joined the American forces to try and help overthrow the commies. His family had owned property and several businesses before the takeover. They took it all and 'redistributed' it. After the escape from the prison camp, he met back up with his wife and hid for several months. Joe then, had a rendezvous with the soldiers, went on foot to the southern tip of Vietnam and rowed a boat out to a Navy ship where they were rescued and brought to the US! Since he worked as an American soldier...he received citizenship along with his family. He said he was sent to Ft. Benning from Vietnam for his initial training!
Joe kept saying...What is wrong with these Obama supporters....its like they are asleep.....and if they are not careful...when they wake up they will be living in a communist country. I know what its like....it steals the life from you....
I told him that his story would inspire millions and started calling him 'Vietnam Joe' LOL!
You can, I did.
That is a great story.
My mail carrier is voting McCain/Palin. She told us quite some time ago that she and her husband along with many friends in the postal service were completely fed up with their union and dropped their union membership. She told us that shortly after a union leader called her husband to urge him to join again. When her husband politely told him he wasn’t interested, the union guy called him a scab. To that her husband replied that scabs come from sores, and if the union wasn’t such a bad sore to everyone there wouldn’t be so many scabs! I thought that was a great response!
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