Voting in rural America
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My hubby has not voted since Perot ran for President--1992. When we moved I finally got him to change his voter registration last month. He kept balking because he thought we had to go somewhere else and it would take an hour. Hubby had to work late so I wasn't sure if he was going to make it. He called me and said, "I don't want to get there and wait in line!" I laughed. See, in rural America, there are normally more people RUNNING the election than VOTING at any given time. There were 10 people running the show. There were three voters, including myself, at 6pm. He just came home. Maybe in four more years....
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My hubby has not voted since Perot ran for President--1992. When we moved I finally got him to change his voter registration last month. He kept balking because he thought we had to go somewhere else and it would take an hour. Hubby had to work late so I wasn't sure if he was going to make it. He called me and said, "I don't want to get there and wait in line!" I laughed. See, in rural America, there are normally more people RUNNING the election than VOTING at any given time. There were 10 people running the show. There were three voters, including myself, at 6pm. He just came home. Maybe in four more years....
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Could vote absentee? It's pretty painless, and you can sit in front of the computer and research all the ballot questions.
MrPlankton
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Could vote absentee? It's pretty painless, and you can sit in front of the computer and research all the ballot questions.
MrPlankton
(bad guy)"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
(good guy)"Which is where?"
(bad guy)"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."
Dean Koontz, The Good Guy -
I imagine part of it has to do with religion. Saturday is the Jewish Orthodox day of rest, Sunday for Christians.
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Because we have football and basketball on the weekends.
Todd Smith
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Because we have football and basketball on the weekends.
Todd Smith
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Because we have football and basketball on the weekends.
Todd Smith
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My hubby has not voted since Perot ran for President--1992. When we moved I finally got him to change his voter registration last month. He kept balking because he thought we had to go somewhere else and it would take an hour. Hubby had to work late so I wasn't sure if he was going to make it. He called me and said, "I don't want to get there and wait in line!" I laughed. See, in rural America, there are normally more people RUNNING the election than VOTING at any given time. There were 10 people running the show. There were three voters, including myself, at 6pm. He just came home. Maybe in four more years....
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
leckey wrote:
in rural America, there are normally more people RUNNING the election than VOTING at any given time
Ain't that sweet? I walked in after work, grabbed a ballot, voted, and dropped it in the box. Total time - 5 minutes. It took longer than that to drive to the voting site. :-D
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Originally, US was mostly an agricultural society. In summer framers were busy and in winter the weather is not good. Nove was a good time for people to go to vote. People did have to travel a considerable distance to vote. They could not leave on Sunday because of Church and so they had to leave on Monday and arrive at the polling station on Tuesday to vote. So it is always held on Tuesday. As to why the tradition still continues, I have no idea.
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_Damian S_ wrote:
My theory is if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain about the government.
But I want to complain about voting being compulsory :)
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Over here, voting is compulsory. However, there are still people who either don't vote, or go and get their ballot paper and just leave it blank/otherwise void it. My theory is if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain about the government.
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_Damian S_ wrote:
My theory is if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain about the government.
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leckey wrote:
in rural America, there are normally more people RUNNING the election than VOTING at any given time
Ain't that sweet? I walked in after work, grabbed a ballot, voted, and dropped it in the box. Total time - 5 minutes. It took longer than that to drive to the voting site. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Originally, US was mostly an agricultural society. In summer framers were busy and in winter the weather is not good. Nove was a good time for people to go to vote. People did have to travel a considerable distance to vote. They could not leave on Sunday because of Church and so they had to leave on Monday and arrive at the polling station on Tuesday to vote. So it is always held on Tuesday. As to why the tradition still continues, I have no idea.
Proud to be a CPHog user
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My hubby has not voted since Perot ran for President--1992. When we moved I finally got him to change his voter registration last month. He kept balking because he thought we had to go somewhere else and it would take an hour. Hubby had to work late so I wasn't sure if he was going to make it. He called me and said, "I don't want to get there and wait in line!" I laughed. See, in rural America, there are normally more people RUNNING the election than VOTING at any given time. There were 10 people running the show. There were three voters, including myself, at 6pm. He just came home. Maybe in four more years....
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
leckey wrote:
There were 10 people running the show. There were three voters, including myself
That was the similar scene at my rural polling place this morning at 7:00AM. My one neighbor and I were the first two voters, out of a registered 400 in our town.
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