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mica
Moderator
Username: mica

Post Number: 3746
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 7:01 pm:   Edit Post

Just a quick note to let you know that my dad and I will be working at the polls tomorrow, so neither one of us will be available. It's also Valentino's day off, so we'll be running at half-office staff until Wednesday.
57basstra
Senior Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 479
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 10:26 am:   Edit Post

Thanks for the public service work, Mica. Poll workers in precincts all over our country do necessary and important work. I also hope everyone took the time to vote.

David
inthelows
Junior
Username: inthelows

Post Number: 16
Registered: 11-2006
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 11:06 am:   Edit Post

Choices, choices, now who's got to go!
NLP
jazzyvee
Senior Member
Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 629
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post

Forgive my ignorance of USA politics but what are the mid term elections all about then?

Jazzyvee
keith_h
Senior Member
Username: keith_h

Post Number: 607
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 11:42 am:   Edit Post

JV,
The mid-term refers to a non-presidential election. This one has the whole House of Representetives up for re-election, a portion of the Senate and many state and local government elections. At the US level this election can/will effect the controlling party in Congress. The results will have a large impact on Bush's last two years in office.

Keith
xlrogue6
Intermediate Member
Username: xlrogue6

Post Number: 115
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:13 pm:   Edit Post

I think Ron should design a voting machine--he could make one that would actually work!
chuck
Junior
Username: chuck

Post Number: 25
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 6:20 pm:   Edit Post

probably sound good to.mabye a nice cocabola top with maple legs.and would led keys be to much?------chuck
pace
Advanced Member
Username: pace

Post Number: 269
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:18 pm:   Edit Post

I knew that pinball machine was in the shop for a reason!
mica
Moderator
Username: mica

Post Number: 3747
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 6:40 pm:   Edit Post

Ha Kent! If you voted at a polling place, you probably saw the Disabled Access Unit (DAU) for electronic voting that is required by federal law. I have yet to see a voter use these machines (the county bought 400 or so of them), although I understand they did get a little use at other polling places.

It was a long day, about 16 hours. But I actually think it's fun and a great way to meet the people in your community (at least the ones that vote!). And at least I know in one precinct in the country there will be no shenanigans :-)
chuck
Junior
Username: chuck

Post Number: 26
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 6:36 am:   Edit Post

Great comback Mike,We did have a pinball machine and a pac-man at our firehouse polling station, as for the electronic machines Mica, a local voter put his fist through one because in would not vote his way and had to watch the results from a jail cell chuck

(Message edited by chuck on November 09, 2006)
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 4504
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 6:33 pm:   Edit Post

JV asked "what are the mid term elections all about".

I was going to say something like "judging from the television commercials and robocalls, the midterm elections are about spending millions and millions and millions of dollars to say crass, crude and patently false things to very large numbers of people about candidates of the opposing party", but then I remembered that the moderator doesn't like for us to talk about politics; so the midterm elections are all about what Keith said.
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 4505
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 6:37 pm:   Edit Post

By the way, the Nevada initiative that was discussed in an earlier thread went up in smoke. So those of you who were booking your next vacation will have to make other plans.
byoung
Senior Member
Username: byoung

Post Number: 410
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 12:41 am:   Edit Post

Ha, ha, he said up in smoke.

I thought it was a dope-y initiative anyway.

Bradley
57basstra
Senior Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 484
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 6:39 am:   Edit Post

Wow, and to think, ours is the very best system ever in the history of humankind.

David
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 1764
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 10:01 am:   Edit Post

And the proof, of course, is that we say it is.

Bill, tgo
byoung
Senior Member
Username: byoung

Post Number: 411
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 10:39 am:   Edit Post

I thought for certain the puns would start rolling. They usually sprout like weeds.

Oh well.

I guess that I'll just leave you with a quote from Sir Winston Churchill:

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Bradley
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1123
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 12:21 pm:   Edit Post

Bradley, you really need to weed out those sprouts. Young kids to this day really hate them.

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