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I know you don't (or shouldn't!) turn to oes.org for your news requirements, but this was a fun thing I saw available. You must have shockwave installed on your machine, and a minimum resolution more than 800x600 (1024x768 is recommended, I think). I apologize the requirements are so rigid, but hey, it's free and I thought it looked like fun. Note to my USA members: I try not to impart any politics into oes.org, but I hope you will feel that this is a non-partisan plea for all Americans to go and vote. Our democracy is based on the smart people of our country going to the polls to have their opinions heard. Whatever your political beliefs, GO VOTE. Please. |
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| Ron,
I agree with the GO VOTE! I believe this message has really worked this year. Several of the people I work with have already gone and they have had to wait for guite a while. Bad for them, but says something good about voter turn out this year. I am going immediately after work, but since I live in a town of only a few thousand (mostly elderly) I don't expect much of a wait. |
| I live in a town of 10,000 .. used to be 6,500 when I moved in 12 years ago. In Massachusetts, all of our borders and boundaries are pretty well determined, and have been for many years. There have been exactly 351 cities and towns for as long as I can remember. When I was about 18, a colleague from Texas was telling me about how Austin was annexing towns and unincorporated land, and I was astonished that such a thing could happen.
Anyway, I tell you all that so you realize that our town has grown in population, but not in size. More than 50% more people in the same area. In the last few years we created a new precinct for voting. There was no line when Joan and I went to vote this afternoon. Out of the approximately 2,000 registered voters in our precinct, 1261 had voted by 4:20 PM. We have paper ballots that are read optically, so you have to fill in a little circle with a little black Magic Marker. All went well, but I was a little surprised -- who is this John Anderson guy on the ballot?  |
| Depending on the area, you can get different candidates on the ballot. There were 6 options on our ballot and one of them was from a party that I hadn't even heard of.
The odd/great thing in our area was that there were mostly young (18-30) year olds working at the polling place! |
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