[windows2000] Re: Friday Humor: Should I Red or Should I Blue?
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:02:12 -0400
If only we had it so easy Sorin. : ) It is really quite a convoluted
system. Voting age is 18 and
you must register if you want to vote. If you move, change your name, get
married etc. you have to reregister. When you come in to vote you must have
an id and your signature must match those in a voter registration book or
you get something called a provisional ballot that may or may not be counted
depending on verification.
The big problems here is that we are so vast and each city, county and state
have their own board of elections which is supposed to be neutral but often
times is controlled by one part or another depending on demographics. And
as far as the presidential vote as we have seen in 2000 candidates are
elected by the electoral college, a group of superhumans I guess, who are
supposed to vote the way that their respected states voted but often don't.
As we saw in 2000 the Democrats had the popular vote of the people but the
Republicans still won the election because they won the electoral vote. This
very well could happen again. Sort of makes you feel like why bother
voting at all. Sigh.
Jim Kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <> scribbled on Monday, October 20, 2008 1:50
> PM:
>
> I assume once you're registered you stay so forever, ie you don't have to
> register for the next election four years later?
>
> Sorry to barge in like this on a mailing list where we're supposed to talk
> about Win2k. 8-) My curiosity got piqued. In Sweden the US elections are
> closely monitored by all newspapers and there is a general countdown as
> well.
> Probably because us being so small a country, the choices you make in the
> US
> will be definitely noticed here one way or other other. You know, like
> rings
> in water kinda'. 8-)
>
> FWIW, in Sweden you automatically get registered (Well, you're not
> registered
> really, as long as you're 18 years old and have a swedish citzenship you're
> "pre-approved" to vote for the parliament, if you're not a swedish citizen,
> you're still allowed to vote for the commune and landsting, but not the
> parliament. The landsting is sort of the ruling body for hospital politics
> and
> such, a bit difficult to describe) and mailed a slip of paper enabling you
> to
> vote, by way of the tax authority. The slip is not entirely necessary
> though,
> as long as you have a valid ID-card and you're listed in the directories at
> the specific voting place where you're supposed to vote (the only place,
> you
> can't choose where you want to vote, unless you do it in advance at a post
> office), it's all go.
>
> I guess since the US is a collection of states, each with its own goverment
> (did I get this right?), it's not as easy to get everybody rounded up, as
> it
> were, as in eg Sweden.
>
>
>
> > No not entirely. You have to be registered to vote like 30 days prior to
> > the election and registration can be mailed in. There has been a lot of
> > registration fraud especially where I live here in Ohio. We register
> > voters at the library I work at and we have had incidecences of Obama
> > supporters insisting on trying to pick up registrations from our
> > predominantly republican area branches and who knows what they were
> > planning to do with them. We always send our ballots directly to the
> board
> > of elections. A group called ACORN here whom Obama is loosely tied to
> has
> > turned in 100's of thousands of fradulent registrations just from Ohio
> that
> > are currently being disputed in supreme court over here.
> >
> > There was a week at the beginning of the month where you could walk into
> > the BOE and register and vote on the same day. Obama supporters came in
> > from out of state and ACORN too were sweeping the streets during this
> time
> > and picking up homeless people and anyone else they could get to take
> them
> > in to register and vote on the same day. I'm not saying this activity
> was
> > actually bad or there was anything inappropriate going on but Ohio has
> been
> > in the middle of election melee several times before.
> >
> > We very well once again could decide this election as in 2000.
> >
> > Jim Kenzig
> > Blog: http://www.techblink.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Sorin Srbu <s wrote:
> >
> >
> > Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <> scribbled on Friday, October 17, 2008
> 8:13 PM:
> >
> >
> > > If you are in the US just VOTE whatever you do!
> > >
> http://kenzig.blogspot.com/2008/10/should-i-red-or-should-i-blue.html
> >
> >
> > Is it true you have to take a day off from work to register to be
> able
> to
> > vote in the US, because of the queues and whatnot?
> >
> > /S
>
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