Barack Obama 44th US President - Yes We Can!

[Joolz]

[raisindot]

And don't forget the important issue. Washington and Colorado passed measures to Legalize pot.

I'll bet your writing this while you're STILL waiting in line to vote, eh, Raptor?

But as our resident Floridian, can you give us any insights from your experience? Was it true that the ballot was longer that War and Peace and that a number of couples got married and had children waiting to vote?

[Bouncy Castle]

And Roseanne Barr came 5th.

That's too close for comfort!

[pip]

Her wiki page says she came fifth but when i saw the news it had her sixth so i think she was a little further off thankfully


Obama (Democratic) 303 25+DC 60,662,601 50.40%
Romney (Republican) 206 24 57,821,399 48.01%
Johnson (Libertarian) 0 0 1,139,562 0.95%
Stein (Green) 0 0 396,684 0.33%
Goode (Constitution) 0 0 108,195 0.09%
Barr (Peace and Freedom) 0 0 49,426 0.04%
Anderson (Justice) 0 0 34,521 0.03%
Others 0 0 151,360 0.13%

[raptornx01]

Nah, wasn't so bad. the thing about homestead exemptions was a fricking tome though. i'm like, ok, so you want that taxes on homesteads won't go up if the value of it has gone down. (homesteads being a place someone has owned and lived in for more then 25 straight years) ok fine, but you didn't need PAGES to say that.

my fav though actually a small one called religious freedom. i'm like, yeah, i believe in religious freedom. "The right to believe in whatever religion you choose, or to believe in none", sure. "And you shouldn't be denied rights based on faith or lack thereof" yeah, right on. "Ok then, then churches should be able to get funding from the government" Wait, wut?

yeah, they basically put in a thing trying to overturn separation of church and state. -_- and i was paraphrasing but they basically worded it like that.

http://www.browardsoe.org/SampleBallot. ... nctID=1866

in the end it was pretty much dems across the board that won except where one wasn't available.

[raisindot]

Isn't it true that whole purpose of putting all those 70-page ballot questions on the Florida ballot was a Republican ploy to make voting such a time-consuming process that it would discourage minorities in urban areas (most of whom would have voted for Obama) from staying in line and thus lower turnout for him? Certainly the two ballot questions you mentioned seem to have been slipped in there by conservative interests.

[raptornx01]

maybe. i know they got voted down anyway.

[jtrhoades]

I would like to point out that a lot of people I know don't vote because they want to avoid jury duty, not out of protest for bad choices.

Yes, that's right, people care more about avoiding jury duty than choosing who the President is.
That being said, we ought to stop running jury duty based on voter registration, would be just as easy to go off of taxes, or driver's licenses.

[raptornx01]

odd that, since i had got picked for jury duty before i ever registered to vote.

[Penfold]

My wife and I went to the voting booths this morning before work. There were 4 older ladies running the show and 3 voting booths that are similar to a science fair project in how they fold up. They had an oval VOTE logo on top center and a cartridge slot on the left that the volunteers used to start your ballot.

I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.

I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said "It's nothing to worry about, everything will be OK." and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.

There is a lot of speculation that the footage is edited. I'm not a video guy, but if it's possible to prove whether a video has been altered or not, I will GLADLY provide the raw footage to anyone who is willing to do so. The jumping frames are a result of the shitty camera app on my Android phone, nothing more.

I heard about this on a tv program (I think it was 'Russell Howard's Good News' (?)) but it seems to have been more widespread than just one machine. If I recall correctly, wasn't there something similar during the last elections where there was a problem with the machines casting votes in favour of the Republicans?

[raptornx01]

Even if true, didn't work.

[jgharston]

http://www.browardsoe.org/SampleBallot.aspx?eid=136&PrecinctID=1866

'old on, you still have an election if there's only one candidate? That's a non-contested election.

[raptornx01]

they have the write in option

[raisindot]

Yes, that's right, people care more about avoiding jury duty than choosing who the President is.
That being said, we ought to stop running jury duty based on voter registration, would be just as easy to go off of taxes, or driver's licenses.

This is an Ohio thing. In Massachusetts, jury duty isn't based on whether you're registered or not. I know a number of people who never registered to vote who have been picked for jury duty.

[simmonds91]

Great, obama is president yet again . Hopefully this time people will give the guy a CHANCE to better america instead of complaining when he doesn't mend years and years and years of damage all in one go. A mere 4 years and people expect him to change things just like that? even with near half the country who don't stand for the same things as one another? HA!!!!!