So...citizens of the U.S. of A. who are 18+ years

[Ngangbius]

You did vote, did you?

[Delphine]

You did vote, didn't you?

Fixed.

And of course I did. And then my coolant exploded all over my engine. That was not fun.

[Spazz]

I was waiting for this thread.

Yep, and held up the line while I was at it.

[j-man]

I'm bored. Do we know who won yet?

[Segaholic2]

NO BRITS ALLOWED IN THIS THREAD!!

Eh, just kidding.

Hopefully we'll know around midnight...?

[Grant]

Midnight of January 15th, maybe. It's gonna be close, I reckon.


It was a long hour an' a half wait, but I voted.

[Segaholic2]

Yeah, yeah. Stupid Florida.

I remember staying up until 4 or 5am last time, waiting for the results that never came. I finally gave up and went to sleep. We didn't find out for like what, 6 more weeks?

[Zeta]

Yes! But somehow, they prevented my mother for voting. Apparently, they didn't believe she lived here. Even though her driver's license clearly says otherwise.

[Grant]

I swear to god they pick the dumbest people in the world to work the polls. The stupid old people here at BGSU were getting ready to die as they showed me how to fill out the ballot.

I'll tell you what was really frustrating, though. While I sit and wait for over an hour, the people that did provisional voting were in and out in under twenty minutes! I took the extra time to reregister in the county where the university's at to convenience them, and yet they reward the lazy bastards that didn't reregister!

Sheesh.

[Spazz]

Heh, earlier on the radio, a 14-year-old girl said that she was helping at working the polls.

Poor Grant, around here, people are saying they were in and out in 2 mins. Of course, it all depends on when you go and where you are.

[Popcorn]

Did Hulk Hogan get many votes? He was running, right?

[Squirrelknight]

Voting was pretty easy for me-- They had one of those electronic voting things though, so there's probably going to be some error or computer crash and my vote won't be counted.

But then again, everybody in California is voting for Kerry (as did I), so my vote doesn't really matter, as this state is so liberal all of it's electorates would've gone to the Democrat candidate regardless of who it was.

[Grant]

Poor Grant, around here, people are saying they were in and out in 2 mins. Of course, it all depends on when you go and where you are.

Yeah.. I guess it could help if they had more than FOUR BOOTHS for an ENTIRE CAMPUS. That might speed things up, I'd think.

[chriscaffee]

It took about an hour. Incidently I still haven't done my Calculus homework.

[Spazz]

Voting was pretty easy for me-- They had one of those electronic voting things though, so there's probably going to be some error or computer crash and my vote won't be counted.

We had those too. I hear there are like 50+ write-in candidates on the CA ballot. Z'at true?

[Squirrelknight]

We had those too. I hear there are like 50+ write-in candidates on the CA ballot. Z'at true?

I'm not sure about 50, but it was a sizeable list.

[Zeta]

There wasn't a vote for the gay marriage thing in North Carolina. But according to my beau, there was one in Georgia. Interesting . . . I guess this place is more liberal than I thought. Well, not in the stoneage where I live - but in the cities.

[Green Gibbon!]

I noticed they forgot to put my name on the ballot at the local hub... I figured it was a local slip-up. You guys all voted for me, right?

[Spazz]

I looked, they screwed up here too. What party do you represent anyway?

[Baba O'Reily]

[Delphine]

There wasn't a vote for the gay marriage thing in North Carolina. But according to my beau, there was one in Georgia. Interesting . . . I guess this place is more liberal than I thought. Well, not in the stoneage where I live - but in the cities.

I didn't get that one, but I did get one asking me if I wanted to give the legislative branch judical power. I tried not to laugh right out, but someone gave me a funny look when I exited the booth.

[Crazy Penguin]

Ga., Ky., Ohio Vote Against Gay Marriage

46 minutes ago

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer

Voters in Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio approved constitutional amendments Tuesday to ban same-sex marriage, with similar results expected in most of the eight other states considering such measures.


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Early results made clear the amendments would, as expected, win easy approval. Exit polls showed the ban winning by 3-to-1 in Georgia and 3-to-2 in Ohio, while the Kentucky amendment had 64 percent support in early returns.


The Ohio measure, considered the broadest of the 11 because it barred any legal status that "intends to approximate marriage," gathered equal support from men and women, blacks and whites.


In Georgia, gay-rights activists immediately announced they would mount a court challenge of their state's amendment. But supporters of the ban were jubilant.


"I've said all along that this crossed party lines, color lines and socio-economic lines," said Sadie Fields of the Georgia Christian Coalition. "The people in this state realized that we're talking about the future of our country here."


Conservatives hoped the amendments would prevail in all 11 states, sending a signal that the American public disapproved of gay marriage. National and local gay-rights groups campaigned vigorously in Oregon, where polls showed a close race, and in a few other states to try to prevent a sweep.


None of the 11 states allows gay marriage now, though officials in Portland, Ore., married more than 3,000 same-sex couples last year before a judge halted the practice. Supporters of the amendments contend the measures are needed as an extra guard against state court rulings like the one in Massachusetts a year ago that legalized same-sex marriage there.


The proposed amendments in Mississippi, Montana and Oregon refer only to marriage, specifying that it should be limited to unions of one man and one woman. The measures in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah would ban civil unions as well.


In most cases, those additional provisions generated extra controversy. Some prominent Republican politicians and GOP-leaning newspapers, while stressing that they opposed gay marriage, spoke out against the amendments on grounds that the measures might prevent the extension of even very limited partnership rights to unmarried gay and straight couples.


In five of the states, legislators placed the proposed amendments on the ballots, while in the six others — Arkansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and Oregon — the measures were advanced by conservative, church-backed citizens groups that collected signatures on petitions.


Many gay-rights activists and their allies depicted some of the petition drives as a divisive, GOP-backed tactic to boost conservative turnout on Election Day in crucial battleground states like Ohio and Michigan.


Already this year, voters in Missouri and Louisiana have weighed in on the issue, with gay-marriage-ban amendments winning more than 70 percent of the vote in both states.


Louisiana's amendment was later struck down in state court on the ground that it improperly dealt with more than one subject by banning not only same-sex marriage but also any legal recognition of common-law relationships, domestic partnerships and civil unions. The court challenge in Georgia involves a similar argument.


Even if all 11 amendments were approved, the debate would rage on. Conservatives say they will continue to press for a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, on the premise that even toughly worded bans in state constitutions could be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites).



Gay-rights activists, meanwhile, will continue pressing marriage-rights lawsuits in states like Oregon, California and New Jersey, where they believe the high courts might eventually rule in their favor.

The amount of prejudice that still exists in this day and age is sickening.

[Green Gibbon!]

Personally, I think marriage itself is an outdated institution. Like, why are we still doing it? Really?

[SuperKnux]

I voted for Kerry last week.

Doesn't matter though, considering Texas is hardcore conservative state. Oh, shwell.

[plasticwingsband]

Voted for Michael Badnarik. Not like it really helps, as the Democratic Candidate always gets the Electoral Vote in CA. But since I felt my vote didn't really matter, I was fine with voting for the Candidate I thought was best.

And then I voted for a bunch of other Libertarians just to show my support.