What the fuck? No parking where thousands of people are going to be that day? Ridiculous.

And that whole ordeal with the list-checking broad? Hilarious! (Sorry!) WHERE ARE YOU?

Today is a good day for me to be a Canadian living in the U.S. I can’t vote, even if I wanted to.

Thankfully I don’t have a parking problem, just a little matter of all the poll workers being over 100 years old.

Ah, but if you vote absentee, then you may lose a vote, think of all those Edwards absentee votes.

That blows, but I’m glad you stuck it out to make sure you got your vote in there.

I walked to my polling place - some kooky old lady’s house up in the hills. but there was plenty of street parking. was a pleasure walking up there and took no more than 5 min total to vote.

No, no, no — don’t vote absentee!!! First of all, as we have seen in this election, candidates dropped out rendering those votes wasted. Second, in some cases, those ballots won’t be counted for some time. So please don’t make yourself a permanent vote-by-mail person!!!

I get the “your name is Hillary! Like Hillary Clinton!” comment all the time too. But, um, I’m Canadian. Gah!

I had a similar experience Hil…and the worst part is I applied to work at the polls, but got rejected!! Maybe next time I should say i speak ENGLISH and my HEARING is perfect!!!

And I was registered Non-Partisan, and the old guy pointed to the Dem ballot and said “this is the one you need, right?” Do I look Liberal??

My place was a litte nuts, but it was relatively quick and painless. I was worried about parking, but found some princess parking.

This is the problem I USUALLY have. And for once, I had the easiest voting day ever. THANK GOD.

Wow, my turn is next week. Can’t wait for all the robocalls. At least our polling place is a school that is three minutes’ walk from the house. For once I am not standing outside pushing any candidate. Don’t quite know how I’ll bear that. LOL

I really don’t think it’s something to be that annoyed about. Why expect so much? I’m sure the woman behind the table had to deal with a lot of confused and annoying voters herself. And she’s just a volunteer afterall. Sorry you had a bad experience but you only have to do it every few years and in the end It’s a day to be thankful for that we live in a country where we can be heard. Maybe try to see the glass half full.

dear GOD - all you ever do is f-ing complain!!! I used to think your blog was moderately interesting, but in reality, it’s just a load of self-absorbed crap with no meaning whatsoever. Do yourself a favor - get a shrink and a life and SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!

AG:

You are mean-spirited and obnoxious. Go F yourself.

Love,

Hilary’s MOM

AG- if you don’t enjoy reading about Hilary’s life, then go find another blog to read…you choose to open this page on your browser and if you are not happy with the posts find a blog that makes YOU happy!!!

life is simple and easy like that!!

have a nice life and go to another blog!

AG — ditto!

Way to go Mom. Hell hath no fury like a mamabear scorned!

I had to vote absentee this time because I am out of town, and it’s REALLY unsatisfying. Well, it’s satisfying to vote because I am voting, but it’s WAY more fun to go into the booth and fill in the bubbles. And you get a sticker! Plus, I like to flirt with the old man volunteers.

Go Mom!!

And Go Hilary (both blog H and H Clinton!!)

Some people are just rude and nasty…

We like your blog, and that’s all that matters! : )

I like your mom.

Geez, I missed this the first time. I lurve Hilary’s Mom! We should always listen to momma More!

But hey, let’s put some facts up there to speak about. (I know, this makes people flee in terror).

You’re not just voting every 4 years, it’s more like every other year, and truth be told in CA? Probably Every year for something. So it’s just the most important and vital civic function and responsibility we have in a Democracy, right? So why do we alone among the major industrialized Western nations of the world manage to screw it up so profoundly & regularly? No parking? This is a Legal Violation. There MUST be handicapped access for Voting! They really should have been cited for this. Needing to walk a long way to vote? Ditto.

An NO there’s No excuse for having clueless poll workers. They’re supposed to under go Hours of detailed training Before hand! So what’s the problem? The New Databases that are required by law supposedly to prevent ‘fraud’ (which Does NOT happen in such a manner at all often), ie. the impersonation of One voter for another. That was the problem here in Ga., and they did this to Actively Prevent too many people from voting. As the powers that run our state (Rethuglicans) do not think most of our population Should be voting. Be that as it may, it’s the law that they be allowed to vote, and the Legislature sees fit to erect constant barriers to voting just to make certain that their side wins. See the LWV.org for more details.

There’s the ‘relief valve’ of advance voting and absentee voting in many states, and this is a bit of an improvement. In our state this allows the Rethug’s to send out Filled ballots to their voters and all they have to do is sign them and turn them in. Nice huh? If you have the money to do this, you win the election, easy as pie. Also advance voting may not capture information about the candidates that might be revealed later in the campaign. Like the fact that they’ve withdrawn from the race. I voted for Sen. John Edwards for President by advance vote, because I work the pools on the day of the election.

But for whatever reason, there’s been an active campaign of Voter Suppression going on nation wide on behalf of the Repug. party. They will actively try and remove you from the voting rolls if you’ve moved or if your addy has changed in the last year, just to try and Disenfranchise More Democratic votes. No Other Party does this presently. What the poll worker was trying to say is that she could give you a Provisional ballot (which are actually rarely counted in many venues), but that by the end of the day (or the 2nd day in some states) you had to go back and Prove that you Could be able to vote in the election. Sometimes this requires you to present a Birth Certificate AND something that identifies you with your property & household.

So in point of fact, you Should have been plenty PO’d because a.) we’re Still not sure your vote counted, b.) if it was ‘counted’ it may have been as a Provisional ballot, which you would have had to Reconfirm at the end of the day, (hence the likelihood of a) and c.) the high probability that despite having a stupid poll worker who could not or would not adequately explain this all to you, you Probably had been already Disenfranchised by a Repug. effort to ‘clean up the voter rolls’ (ie commit voter fraud & voter suppression by quasi legal means), by having your name removed from the voter rolls to begin with.

So there’s plenty to be PO’d about there. Every time you move, you now have to check or reconfirm that you can still vote, because some people are now eager to see you Not vote! That’s America. If you’re NOT PO’s you’re just not paying attention!

(And Yes, I tried, really I did to avoid giving this dissertation here on ‘what went wrong’!)

Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’ Member, LWV

Wow. Even I found AG assholish.

And I’m not ptwelve by the way, though I am a fan of her (?) work.

Voting should be easy. I kind of like the idea of Saturday voting like in North Carolina. Or how about on Sunday?

How about it’s a federal holiday and there’s no drinking — I think that’s how it is in Mexico. Or how about you get a citation if you don’t vote because it’s against the law — like in Australia.