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October 28, 2004
i voted!
however, i didn't use early voting-- i used an absentee ballot. i filled it out last night and d. drove me to the post office today at lunch. i was paranoid about mailing it from work or any other place besides a post office or official blue mailbox. i'm actually pretty paranoid about the mail aspect of the whole thing, but that's not within my control.
i had to get d. and our co-worker charles to sign the envelope and put their full mailing address down, after i signed the envelope too. almost like a notary public thing, except it could be any two people over the age of 18 to serve as witnesses.
i liked voting at home with all my materials in front of me and access to the internet. the mail part i don't like so much.
anyway, i don't get a cute little sticker and therefore no free french fries or anything, but the important thing is that i voted.
after mailing my ballot i hopped back into d.'s car and said, "do you want to exit poll me?!?" we determined that kerry had 100% support in the car, and therefore, he will win.
Posted by lisa at October 28, 2004 01:24 PM | TrackBack
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YAY for you! the electoral process is fun!
I don't blame you for being suspicious of the mail, after all those absentee ballots went missing in Florida. Though if I read the story correctly, those ballots hadn't been filled out yet -- they were never received by the voters.
Posted by: Sarah on October 28, 2004 01:35 PM
my concern is that the ballot envelope is very conspicious-- it would be all too easy for a dishonest postal worker to pick them out and discared the ones they didn't like. of course, to do this successfully, they have to steam them open so the electorial board couldn't tell that the ones they DO like have been tampered with.
so now that i think this through, i think it's probably pretty safe. plus, we know that in the past many thousands of absentee ballots have been successfully cast.
Posted by: lisa on October 28, 2004 04:34 PM
yeah, if I were casting an absentee ballot, I'd probably drive to a Republican district and mail it there. On the theory that ballot theft is primarily Republicans destroying Democratic ballots.* How's that for paranoid.
(*that seems like a really biased thing to say, but I heard a radio story a few days ago which said that when republicans commit voter fraud, it tends to be trying to stop people from registering or voting. when democrats commit voter fraud, it tends to be registering multiple times, registering fictional people, etc. I guess they cancel each other out!)
Posted by: Sarah on October 28, 2004 04:38 PM
well, i mailed it in the post office in downtown cary. that's probably about as republican as it gets around here :)
Posted by: lisa on October 29, 2004 10:20 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.