Of all the things I hear going up to today’s election, the one that annoys me the most are people mentioning “voter intimidation.” Monitors are placed to make sure made up people like Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, and Eminem don’t vote, and somehow that’s “intimidating.”
(Say this in whiniest voice possible) “Oh! Someone looked at me funny! I can’t vote now!”
People died so you can vote, dingus! If you can be intimidated from the vote, then you don’t deserve it!
And I keep hearing how it’s worst against minorities. So let me get this straight: the Republicans are sending some white guy in a suit into a minority district to intimidate all the black people.
Either I’m missing some major mechanics here or people are just being whiny little bitches. I know what answer I’m leaning for.
Well, polls are opening. Make sure to vote (unless you’re foreign) and don’t be intimidated.
As soon as I get back from work today, I’m putting on a pot of coffee and going to blog continuously until a winner is found or I just give up and go to bed. Hope you’ll show up for the fun and festivities.
first?
Woohoo! I’m leaving in an hour to go vote!
In an hour I’ll head over to the townhall and vote straight Republican.
I think it is along the same lines of why they should give illegals drivers liscences in Califonia. The illegals are intimidated by the checkpoints because they are illegaly driving to thier illegal job. Illegaly.
So, some of the minority voters are intimidated because they might be caught voting illegaly. Makes perfect sense. Republicans are such prunes. Whiney voice: Let’s see your ID …
“I think it is along the same lines of why they should give illegals drivers liscences in Califonia. The illegals are intimidated by the checkpoints because they are illegaly driving to thier illegal job. Illegaly.” -gaskar
lol
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Give yourself plenty of time folks. I tried to vote this AM, but lines were horribly long at 6:11. I had to catch my shuttle, so I have to wait until tonight. Go Dubya!
“People died so you can vote, dingus! If you can be intimidated from the vote, then you don’t deserve it!”
Couldn’t have said it better, myself.
If a group of white guys go to South Philadelphia to intimidate the vote, they had better be wearing police riot gear and body armor. Now if a group of South Philadelphian black guys show up in Bucks county – there’s a huge chance the limosene liberals wont leave their homes. It’s worth a try.
I love the smell of democracy in the morning … smells like … VICTORY.
BTW, straight party tickets are a bane on democracy and should be outlawed. Just thought I mention it.
I can’t vote straight Republican. I live in Pennsylvania and that would mean a vote for Spector.
I heard some felt intimidated because the first choice on the ballot read:
gaskar: why don’t you want to vote for Spector? (I haven’t been following the race in PA)
Voted!
Read about it here
Not that it was anything exciting… But then, it shouldn’t be.
LOL, exactly my thoughts re: the republicans intimidating the black voters. i personally would be quite intimidating, with my 5 ft. of whiteness, but most republicans are not going to pull it off.
I was intimidated at the polls this morning. You see, it was raining. God intimidated me. I almost didn’t get out of my car. God’s obviously a republican, otherwise it would have been sunny. Clear surpression in my mind. 🙂
thunderstorm144, reading your post, i was sure it was Ducky writing it. that’s a compliment.
Fairfax County, Virginia, is ordering county police officers to stay away from the polls, because they say the presence of cops would be “intimidating”.
That’s right, people in other countries have to dodge gunfire, death squads, car bombs, and “Dignity Battalions” waving two-by-fours to cast their ballots, but here at home, the presence of a bored civil servant in a polyester shirt watching the crowds and thinking about how much his feet hurt, is enough to reduce otherwise steady, thoughtful citizens to panicked weeping. You know, if someone is scared of a cop, do we really want them choosing the direction of the war on terror? Just a thought.
ChrTh: RINO. Mostly because he is pro-abortion.
Ok, now I feel stupid as well as uninformed. What does RINO mean?
Sorry –
Republican In Name Only
Republican In Name Only
…or at least i think
Ok, that I can understand. Who else are RINOs (so I can get an idea what current sentiment is amongst the party)?
The man! He been keepin my vote down!
losers! I voted two weeks ago! so it’s just me on the couch in my jammies today. yay!
Here’s the issue with early voting: you voted before Bin Laden endorsed Kerry. I for one always want to have all the facts before voting (because changing my mind is never outside the realm of possibility). I imagine there are a good number of people out there who have early voter regret (in either direction) due to the Bin Laden tape.
I think along with encouraging the whiners and cowards to abstain from voting, we should also discourage the walking dead — of which there is usually a large turnout in Chicago, for some reason.
Woohoo! Just got back from voting (with a stop at Starbucks to reward the kids for taking part in our sacred duty!)! The quilt store is giving a 25% discount to voters, so I’m leaving the sticker on baby! We waited about 1/2 hour in line and everyone was quite civil. Yesterday my stomach was in knots, but today I feel very at peace (and no, I haven’t been in the liquor cabinet). I love this country!
oh, yeah, UBL was gonna change my mind. ;p
voted
i voted a week ago, gotta love the absentee ballot. no line, no rush. everyone should vote absentee. no real way for there to be any intimitaion. someone comes to your house to intimidate you, pretty easy to send them packing, especially if you are. 😉
The trouble with voting absentee is you might not get your vote counted. At least in South Dakota.
After he couldn’t get his personal judge to ban Republican poll watchers from the polls for allegedly rolling their eyes at people in an extremely intimidating way, Daschle just filed suit in SD to get the Republican absentee ballots thrown out.
Well I’m not an American citizen so I couldn’t vote, though I was kinda tempted to try it. To do my bit for America, I took a cue from TheOnion and posted “Don’t forget: Vote for Kerry, November 3rd” flyers around my hippie-infested campus. Hopefully their brains arent so wasted that they couldn’t read. I should’ve used fluorescent coloring.
My polling place was guarded by six-year-olds selling juice and cookies. Man, was I ever intimidated.
All you got was a sticker jonag?
Up where I live they had a big bowl of leftover Halloween candy, He He I got a snickers.