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Fried Chicken posted:I'm working the election. Specifically I'm passing out the recommended candidate card so I'm 50 feet from the polling location, telling people to go vote and then giving them a list of candidates. You're lookin' good. 
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I used to volunteer at the board of elections when I was in highschool. It was kind of fun unloading ballot boxes from vans and feeling like I was "part of the process" even though I was just moving boxes. I think I might try to get involved in some way next year.
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Nov 3, 2015 16:49
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Fried Chicken posted:So basically go to the freep thread and that's their litany...gays going into the wrong bathrooms to rape women
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Nov 3, 2015 16:50
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Everblight posted:Do conservatives not know how gays work? Do you really have to ask?
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Everblight posted:Do conservatives not know how gays work? It's poop and rape all the way down.
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Radish posted:So even the "serious" establishment people like that lady are in on this kind of Freep nonsense enough to yell at people in real life? Well I characterize her as establishment in contrast to the tea party guy with me. He was out in flip flops, some kind of skin tight under armor thing, an insulated vest covered in cargo style pockets and with hair that looked like it had never seen a comb. She was in women's office dress, some kind of skirted power suit and the like. So in terms of contrast she seemed establishment
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Everblight posted:Do conservatives not know how gays work? On my phone obviously so I can't post it, but go look up the "indiana sneak attack" video. Dropped a few weeks back from the rfra team EDit: the logo for their new push looks like the human centipede
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Zeroisanumber posted:Just have Obama going about his usual day and bring in Keegan-Michael Key as Luther to dance through the White House. I just realized that Trump's anger translator would be Andrew Dice Clay. E: Clinton's would probably be Lena Headey for office meetings and Melissa McCarthy for press conferences. Bernie's would have to be Lewis Black. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:In WV we now have signs telling you where that line is. Illinois they stick a couple of blue cones and a sign where you can't go past if you're electioneering. I had a couple people talk to me about it, one guy even went and measured the distance to double check it. I only worked outside the polling place once, and that was enough.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Illinois they stick a couple of blue cones and a sign where you can't go past if you're electioneering. I had a couple people talk to me about it, one guy even went and measured the distance to double check it. I only worked outside the polling place once, and that was enough. Yeah, I had to police it once when I worked at a poling place that was the home of two candidates for Sheriff once; that was fun. I think I've done just about every election position you can hold.
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FAUXTON posted:I just realized that Trump's anger translator would be Andrew Dice Clay. I'm still not convinced that Bernie isn't just Lewis Black in a wig. I mean, has anyone ever seen them in a room together? 
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I should note that not all the interactions are bad, I had a great time talking with the tea party guy earlier and just had a very nice conversation with a RNC delegate reminiscing about doing the thing I am doing when he was young and before he became disabled. They are still backing a party of insane bigots, but some of them can at least be decent one on one
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Radish posted:Gays, child molesters, rapists, and general perverts are all the same thing to them. Unless it's one of their Gay, child molesting, rapist, perverts. Then they're alright.
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Well that's just boys bein' boys. No harm in that!
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Radish posted:Gays, child molesters, rapists, and general perverts are all the same thing to them. I went to russia once and spoke with someone who used the terms lesbians, pederasts, and faggots interchangeably.
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Some elections to watch (or go vote in if you live in any of these places):
So in short, don't expect a lot of good news tonight if you're liberal.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:So in short, don't expect a lot of good news tonight if you're liberal. This applies to all American elections.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:21
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Some elections to watch (or go vote in if you live in any of these places): Ohio has a very confusing Weed legalization thing with two amendments that appear to counter each other. One that legalizes marijuana and establishes a predetermined number of eligible grow sites.(And allows for personal growth and sharing up to a certain amount). One that establishes a board that reviews any ballot initiative to make sure it doesn't give preferential economic status.(And is worded in such a way that they could pretty much create an arbitrary roadblock to success for any ballot initiative) and explicitly is worded to block initiatives related to schedule 1 substances.(Because they couldn't just name Issue 3 by name?)
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Dang, I was the 16th person to vote at my place today. I didn't even realize there was an election until driving to work this morning either.
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Basically nothing to vote on here in Minnesota so far as I can tell; some cities have school board candidates running unopposed.
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FAUXTON posted:I just realized that Trump's anger translator would be Andrew Dice Clay. Why would Trump and Bernie need anger translators? They're already mad! Enough with the drat emails!
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Nov 3, 2015 17:35
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Ah man So my polling location is a retirement home. Apparently someone didn't make it through the night The family is very distraught. Rough day 
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Fried Chicken posted:Ah man
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Just think, in a just world, we're all off of work today.
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All the old people are like "eh, it's Tuesday, people are always dying"zoux posted:Just think, in a just world, we're all off of work today. In a just world this was a 4 day weekend with all of them being polling days This I will enforce with the iron fist of Chicken
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zoux posted:Just think, in a just world, we're all off of work today. But then Republicans would have to pander to someone besides old rich people!
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Nov 3, 2015 17:39
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AlternateNu posted:Arlington County, VA. There are literally zero Republicans on my ballot.
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There are a couple independents for municipal seats and a Green Party candidate for the State Senate, but yeah. It is great being in the minority bastion of Virginia.
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Fried Chicken posted:In a just world this was a 4 day weekend with all of them being polling days You have my vote. 
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Also lol at the person running against the incumbent mayor. Bless his heart. http://www.ncvoterguide.org/greensboro/mayor/index.php
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SubponticatePoster posted:I'm in Salt Lake City and there are no Republicans on the ballot. Just 2 democrats. One of them is a lesbian. And we voted by mail, though there are polling stations open today as well. The lesbian is ahead in opinion polls. Ah Salt Lake City, the honeypot of Mormondom.
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Fried Chicken posted:Ah man That sucks for the family. Also it's a little bit telling about the world we live in that a polling place is optimally convenient for older people who can afford heath care.
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Kristov posted:Also lol at the person running against the incumbent mayor. Bless his heart. He rules.
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Had no idea there was anything voting-related today, gonna do my part and take lunch to vote here in Sugar Land, TX.
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Kristov posted:Also lol at the person running against the incumbent mayor. Bless his heart. He, he got what Greensboro neeeeeeeeeeds. Seriously, he would have a chance if he pretended to be Biz Markie.
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Elephant Ambush posted:That sucks for the family. Our polling places are almost always set up in the gymnasiums of churches here in Florida.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I'm still catching up on the thread so I don't know if this has been adequately addressed but we can see how clearly this is false today. The GOP has a very large extremist wing that by all rights should be their own separate party entirely because of FPTP.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Our polling places are almost always set up in the gymnasiums of churches here in Florida. Why do your churches have gymnasiums?
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Luigi Thirty posted:Our polling places are almost always set up in the gymnasiums of churches here in Florida. Most of ours (DC-Metro area Maryland) are in public schools. Usually middle/elementary.
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