>> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:12:22 -0400, Charlie E. wrote
(in article ):
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:43:29 -0400, Amy Guskin 
> wrote:
> 
>>>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:36:21 -0400, Charlie E. wrote
>> (in article ):
>> 
>>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:25:19 -0700 (PDT), Dan Dassow
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 1, 12:41 pm, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>>>>> I hope all of our eligible US voters here will be
voting tomorrow!  Just 
>>>>> a
>>>>> quicky note reminding you all to behave :-) , as you
will be one 
>>>>> moderator
>>>>> short on election day.   I'm working the polls in my
precinct, as usual.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Amy
>>>> 
>>>> Amy,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for working the polls for your precinct. This is a highly
>>>> important, but under appreciated, part of our system of
government. I
>>>> will exercise my franchise tomorrow as usual.
>>>> 
>>>> It will be a relief to not see any more negative political
>>>> advertisements after today until the next election cycle gears up in
>>>> earnest. Let’s hope that we will be political ad free for at least a
>>>> year.
>>>> 
>>>> Dan Dassow
>>> 
>>> I will be so, SO happy not to be receiving political robo-calls 10
>>> times a day!
>>> 
>>> Ballots all filled out, will drop them by the polling place in the
>>> morning.  The joys of an absentee ballot - time to really think and
>>> discuss the candidates and propositions! <<
>> 
>> In our state, if you brought your absentee ballot in by hand, you'd 
>> invalidate it.  Or, rather, you'd be asked to fill out a regular ballot 
>> because obviously your plans must have changed and you weren't, in fact, 
>> absent.
>> 
>> Amy
> In California, they acknowledge that there are reasons for an
> absenttee ballot other than you would be out of town.  In our case,
> Pamela is blind, so I have to fill out the ballot for her.  That sort
> of thing is frowned on in the voting booth... ;-) <<
Really?  Pennsylvania acknowledges that there are reasons for requiring 
assistance other than something shady going on.:-)  The only people not 
permitted to help someone in the voting booth are a person's employer, a 
union boss, and the judge of elections.  You can even fill out a form to get 
temporary assistance (let's say you broke your writing arm, or you just had 
cataract surgery).  We had people with help in the booth all day long, 
yesterday.
>> Actually, they are calling on making more and more of the vote as mail
> in, as it saves time and costs at the polling places, and lets them
> spread out the counting period. <<
I do hope we eventually go in this direction, but I will be one of the people 
who still comes out to the polling place to cast my vote.
Amy
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