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Number_6 posted:Went to my Travis Co. polling location (an elementary school) after work tonight and a friend at the front of the line told me he was waiting 45 mins, and the line was longer when I got there than when he did. The line filled a long hallway, took a 90 deg turn and continued down another hallway. Had to be at least an hour wait. I've stood in long lines to vote before, and survived the '08 prima-caucus, but frankly, for this primary, I just don't care that much. Usually I early-vote but I hosed up this time. Go to http://www.votetravis.com and enter your info. You'll get a list of every polling location near you and the current wait time for it. You can vote in any of those locations, so just see which has the shortest wait and go there.
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I've seen two people turned away for having the wrong type of ID in the last twenty minutes, including a NASA ID. Hooray Texas.
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citybeatnik posted:the VoteTravis website still says it's anywhere in the county for today. You can understand my confusion. Ah, well Travis county is a magical place
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Going to vote in a bit. Would have voted earlier, but I carpool with family and don't have my driver's license yet. Will report on any cute animals or cool old people in the line. Also, who/what did/will you folks vote for? I'm in agreement with most of what the Chronicle suggested, except for the noncommittal on a Precinct 3 Constable candidate. A.J. Johnson sounds fine, and it's weird how the Chronicle staff wrote him off just because he's passionate about vehicle inspections. That stuff's important, especially considering how common traffic accidents seem in Austin. Edit: They made everyone turn off their phones at the polling station. Took almost an hour standing in line.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:03
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45 minutes in line so far, woo.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:29
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citybeatnik posted:45 minutes in line so far, woo. Hillary has won already dude
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blue squares posted:Hillary has won already dude An hour and fifteen minutes. And i had actually put in some research on the down ballot folks. So should have everyone else. Don't tell me you waited in line just to click the president vote and skimmed through the rest.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:07
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citybeatnik posted:An hour and fifteen minutes. I tried to, but I found no information online, no difference between the Republicans that got a spot in the printed voter guide besides where they used to work and why that makes them the best, and half the drat positions here are just an unopposed Republican anyway.
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Wulfolme posted:I tried to, but I found no information online, no difference between the Republicans that got a spot in the printed voter guide besides where they used to work and why that makes them the best, and half the drat positions here are just an unopposed Republican anyway. Reading over the Republican ballot proposal stuff while in line was a hoot.
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Mar 2, 2016 05:55
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citybeatnik posted:Reading over the Republican ballot proposal stuff while in line was a hoot. I'm curious but scared to know what they were.
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Mar 2, 2016 05:59
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Ugh Stickland won his primary.
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Mar 2, 2016 06:20
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Molly White is losing to her opponent in Bell County at least. Not sure where I can get results from the whole district.
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in WilCo. ballot had nearly all uncontested races; i really liked the Party Plank options. i early voted a week ago and there was no line. what is wrong with you people?zoux posted:Ugh Stickland won his primary. oh come on
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wait what http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/newly-elected-gop-chair-texas-capitol/
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Aliquid posted:wait what Haha quote:“We will explore every single option that exists, whether it be persuading him to resign, trying to force him to resign, constraining his power, removing his ability to spend money or resisting any attempt for him to access data or our social media account,” Mackowiak told the Tribune. “I’m treating this as a coup and as a hostile takeover.” I hope a bunch of little Trumps spring up all over the country to piss off the GOP establishment.
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Mar 2, 2016 10:11
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Aliquid posted:wait what That article is one of the wildest rides I've been on in a long time.
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Aliquid posted:wait what It's hilarious in a massive train wreck sort of way. Only he's racist as all get out openly, unlike the establishment Republicans. illcendiary posted:I'm from the valley and curious, what places do you recommend? Never really tried anything interesting growing up (parents tended towards chain restaurants) and I've lived in Houston/San Antonio all of my adulthood. I mean it really depends what you're after. There are mom and pop Tex-Mex places around every corner. Most with the same options, differences will come as to if they make their tortillas in house, same with the refried and charro beans. If their chips are fried there at the restaurant, since salsa and or pico is almost always complimentary. Personally I love Taxco here in McAllen, it used to be called Jesse's Restaurant but the owner got a bit too old and sold it off. Menu hasn't changed much and you can still get a slab of fajitas two cheese enchiladas rice and beans for under 10 bucks. Their tracks are good if not normal fare for down here. Which for me having lived in Austin for almost a decade in the mid 00's means it's miles and miles better than what passes for Tex-Mex out there. You live in SA so you should know about Palenque if not find one have some of their stuff it's drat near homemade. Jiro fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Texas Politics: Tell them they can go gently caress themselves
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Jiro posted:It's hilarious in a massive train wreck sort of way. Only he's racist as all get out openly, unlike the establishment Republicans. The best part is that he's not only pissed that people don't like him saying the word that no white man shall utter, he gets actively pissed when the interviewer avoids saying the word and blurts it out. Literally no self control on his mouth, and is actively upset when other people don't just spew verbal diarrhea like he does. It's glorious and I look forward to watching the damage he does to the Texas Republicans. 
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 Once again, this loving dweeb is going to be the US Rep for this loving gerrymandered district.
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Damage? I'm pretty sure that Republicans are going to eat up his rhetoric like it's Franklin BBQ. Just check out the shitheel in District 92 that the thread was talking about earlier.
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ReidRansom posted:Although I early voted two weeks ago, and we have a thing here where you can just go vote at any location, I did get a text from some Sanders volunteer reminding me to vote and telling me where to go based on my address. That was nice of them. Because I basically only respond to texts. I always wondered who uses the text option in van.
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It's about time Texas got an elected official who wasn't handcuffed by people's feel-feels and said the hard truths.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:13
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soupcan58 posted:I'm curious but scared to know what they were. Texas should replace the property tax system with an alternative other than an income tax and require voter approval to increase the overall tax burden. Proposition 2: Texas cities and counties should be required to comply with federal immigration laws or be penalized by loss of state funds. Proposition 3: Texas should prohibit governmental entities from collecting dues for labor unions through deductions from public employee paychecks. Proposition 4: Texas and its citizens should strongly assert 10th Amendment Rights guaranteed by the US Constitution which states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”.
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Aliquid posted:wait what quote:“You are a perfect example of what the Trump movement is revolting against because you can’t even pronounce the word n----- when you are talking about a Facebook post,” Morrow said. “What a pathetic excuse for a reporter you are.”  can't wait to hear more from this guyAll else aside, what the hell is going on with his hair?
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Mar 2, 2016 18:22
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Wendy Davis had an estate sale. http://freebeacon.com/politics/i-bought-wendy-davis-pink-sneakers/
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Wendy Davis had an estate sale. quote:The only political case I could think of remotely similar to Davis’ estate sale was when Hillary Clinton, who Davis was campaigning for this past weekend, deducted $2 from her taxes for donating used underwear to charity. gross
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Anyone have county-level maps of the primary results? I can fine the actual results, just not presented in a handy map.
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Aliquid posted:Anyone have county-level maps of the primary results? I can fine the actual results, just not presented in a handy map. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/01/super-tuesday-results-live-state-by-state for presidential results
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Badger of Basra posted:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/01/super-tuesday-results-live-state-by-state for presidential results Wow, check out Armstrong County in the Panhandle. Bernie won the Democratic primary by 60 points there. He got four votes and Hillary got one. There are exactly five democrats voting in that whole county. The panhandle is a weird, weird place.
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Robert Morrow is a goddamn crazy person. If that's not obvious from the Texas Tribune article, here http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2016/03/insane-new-gop-chair-in-texas-county-is.html?m=1 That loving facebook post. 25,000 people voted for this man.
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Badger of Basra posted:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/01/super-tuesday-results-live-state-by-state for presidential results Thanks! Here's the winner of Texas' 19th GOP primary, with a not-so-good-lookin' Bob Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmKTbJ83vQ8
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Wait, what? Last I saw, Sanders had taken Travis county. Yeah, just went and checked. Sanders led by a hair over 4k votes. Not that it made a difference in the end, but still, I wasn't sure if I was just imagining things with that. EDIT: citybeatnik posted:Four crazy propositions Well, at least that was at about the level of crazy I was expecting. I don't know how good or bad that is, though. soupcan58 fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Just heard on the radio that Molly White did in fact lose her primary.
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Badger of Basra posted:Just heard on the radio that Molly White did in fact lose her primary. I think the Tea Party candidates had an advantage with Ted Cruz driving them to the polls, so it's extra lol she couldn't hang on in that environment.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Wendy Davis had an estate sale. there's no way that dude is legally permitted to be within 500 yards of a school.
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zoux posted:I think the Tea Party candidates had an advantage with Ted Cruz driving them to the polls, so it's extra lol she couldn't hang on in that environment. As far as I can tell the only difference between them is that Shine is a former rep and said he wouldn't ask muslims to pledge allegiance in his office.
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Unofficial Bexar county election results: http://home.bexar.org/el45a.htm Trey Martinez Fischer lost.  And Grady Yarbrough won. (His website gives off a faint "crazy religious fucker" vibe). http://www.gradyyarbroughjr.com/ On the plus side, that fucker Lauro A. Bustamante lost, and that was probably one of the more important elections: District Judge, 438th Judicial District Vote for 1 (WITH 712 OF 712 PRECINCTS COUNTED) Lauro A. Bustamante . . . . . . . 38,083 41.07 Rosie Alvarado. . . . . . . . . 54,654 58.93 http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/gloria_padilla/article/Voters-beware-Know-your-Bustamantes-5721884.php (Artile is talking about a past election, but everything else is still very relevant.) quote:Every election draws perennial candidates, and in elections with low voter turnout, they do more than just clutter up the ballot. They can actually get elected.
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