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And may I say how much I LURVE Oregon's Vote by Mail elections? So easy and convenient. Just go to your mailbox, pull out your ballot, vote in the comfort of your own home, and mail it back. The rest of you suckers get to stand in line on Election Day (unless you vote early, in which case you get to stand in line on days that are not Election Day).
Also? when I hear about all the touch-screen voter machines problems other states have, I laugh. Vote By Mail means paper ballots.
Our Secretary of State and election officials love it too, the Secretary said something today that was basically the polite form of 'I pity da poor fools who have deal da the fucking high voter turnout on Nov. 4'. Instead my state gets a whole two weeks to count the ballots, making the number they have to count at the last minute a lot lower.
Anyways, it was pretty easy this year. I voted straight Democratic ticket, voted no for any measure authored by Bill Sleazemore, and yes on everything else. There was an interesting 'Top Two' initiative that would open the primary elections to everyone, and the top two candidates (the two with the most votes) would run against each other in the main election, no matter the party. That means if, say, two Democrats (or two Republicans, or Pacific Green Party, etc) get the most votes in the primary they would run against each other, instead of our current system. It's supposed to open up the election system to third party candidates as well, which is to the good IMO. I'm not entirely sure it'll work out as planned, but I think it's worth a shot.
Also? when I hear about all the touch-screen voter machines problems other states have, I laugh. Vote By Mail means paper ballots.
Our Secretary of State and election officials love it too, the Secretary said something today that was basically the polite form of 'I pity da poor fools who have deal da the fucking high voter turnout on Nov. 4'. Instead my state gets a whole two weeks to count the ballots, making the number they have to count at the last minute a lot lower.
Anyways, it was pretty easy this year. I voted straight Democratic ticket, voted no for any measure authored by Bill Sleazemore, and yes on everything else. There was an interesting 'Top Two' initiative that would open the primary elections to everyone, and the top two candidates (the two with the most votes) would run against each other in the main election, no matter the party. That means if, say, two Democrats (or two Republicans, or Pacific Green Party, etc) get the most votes in the primary they would run against each other, instead of our current system. It's supposed to open up the election system to third party candidates as well, which is to the good IMO. I'm not entirely sure it'll work out as planned, but I think it's worth a shot.