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At 10:37 PM, November 06, 2006
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At 5:34 AM, November 07, 2006
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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At 9:51 PM, November 07, 2006
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At 5:50 AM, November 08, 2006
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Is it OK if I voted a few weeks ago?
I wish I could vote again, though. And again and again and again.....
Yes - I voted last week myself, absentee. I don't trust the machines.
When I voted in MD, we used a stylus to punch a card. Hanging chads and all, I guess, though we never imagined the term (nor the problem).
In New York, I have to claim that I'll be out of town (which is the case now) or am physically unable to get to the polls on election day. I can't use absentee voting just 'cause I want to.
Maryland tried to have early voting, but it was ruled unconstitutional. But any voter can vote absentee for any reason - fill out a paper ballot with a pen, and mail it in.
Chad is a word I've known since the mid-seventies. But it was, back then, the little holes punched out by a teletype machine, and it was a mass noun. "Chads" still sounds odd and wrong to me.
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