Husband and I went to vote today and something odd happened.
First, there wasn’t a whole lot of people around. But we go to a little church and there’s never a lot of people. This was around 10 am in the morning.
So we give our name, we sign the sheet, and the lady says take a “D” or an “R”. There were little blocks piled up and if you were a Republican you took an “R” and Democrats took a “D”. When you got to the voting booth you handed the operator your card and he turned on the side on which you were only allowed to vote. On the right was Dem., for example, on the left, Repub. The Repub side lit up once the guy turned my correct side on. Thus I could not vote for BOTH Dem and Repub.
so far so good.
But as we were taking our little blocks, husband asks can he have a “D” instead of an “R”. Now I don’t know why he asked that...joking I guess. His voter card says “R” so he can only vote “R”.
Obviously.
But in response to his little joke, the lady says, loudly, “Yes, you can have a “D”. But you got to give back the “R”.”
By this time we were on our way to the voting booth and we were doing the ha-ha.
After getting home, husband asks why we would be able to get a “D” if we were registered Republican. I tell him not to be silly, the lady was only kidding.
Let me say that as of now I STILL think the lady was kidding.
Husband scratches head and says...”I dunno. What would stop registered Democrats from voting Republican if this is allowed?’
In other words, husband interpreted what I still think was a joke to mean that you could only vote in one party’s primary but it didn’t HAVE to be the party in which you were registered.
Now the Dems DID have a primary today but it was a big nothing thing. It’s the REPUBLICAN primary that’s generating all the interest.
Again, I think the lady was kidding but this did happen.
As I understand it, Delaware has a closed primary. You had to be registered by 8/14 to vote and as I understand, you can only vote in the primary of the party in which you are registered.
But here’s this lady telling us we can get any letter we want.
I’m thinking it would be easy to get a lot of Dems to come, choose the letter “R”, and vote for Castle.
Again, I think the lady was joking but it was kinda dumb, ya think?
It’s been botheering me all day.
Sounds like it was primary day for both the GOP and the Dems, correct? Had your hubby taken the D wouldn’t he have gotten the Democrat primary ballot and not the Republican? That’s how it works here in SC.
go Christine
[In other words, husband interpreted what I still think was a joke to mean that you could only vote in one party’s primary but it didn’t HAVE to be the party in which you were registered.]
So do you think Democrats will be crossing over to vote O’Donnell if they can get away with it?
I would worry if this was the General election in Nov.
At my polling place, they GIVE you a card D or R based on what the book says - no choice.... (Your husband sounds a lot like me - I would say something like that. ;-)
In Wisconsin, you can vote for only one party in the primary. (supposedly, devoid of cheating in Milwaukee and Madison). Anyway, even if you are a Republican, you can vote for the Democratic party and vice-versa. (Or Green or Libertarian). So, we had democrats who skipped their ballot because noone important is on it and their guys aren’t being opposed. They were instructed by the thugs to vote for Mark Neumann for governor instead of Scott Walker because they feel their candidate, Barrett, (who is coming in since Doyle quit) can beat Neumann but not Walker. It is not “right” but is legal and has been in Wisconsin for as long as I can remember.