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MikeRafone

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I'm thinking about running over to the courthouse today. I'm tired of all the election horseshit.

I'll probably do my usual Election Day activity, drive to J.R. Cigars in N.C. stock up on cigars, and come back up the Turnpike trailing a big cloud of smoke to blind the drivers behind me. You don't have to pay the tolls if they can't see you or stand the smell.

I had a cop pull me over in Virginia in '04 on the Election Day pilgrimage. I was smoking an A. Allones Petit Corona, the nimrod told me he thought it was a "blunt". Hell, I didn't know what a blunt was. If I'd had a radar detector I'd probably still be doing time in the Old Dominion. Can't have no radar detectin' in Ol' Virginny.
 
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COOL MAN

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Sent my ballot into my County's Board of Elections a week ago; perhaps that's that's not the same thing, strictly speaking, as "early voting"......even though the net effect is obviously the same.

Speaking only for myself, why an eligible voter wouldn't take of advantage of SOME manner of early voting in a Presidential election......in favor of going to the polls and dealing with the crowds and lines and campaigners standing outside.....IS puzzling to me. Perhaps those are the folks who just don't believe their vote counts if it's not dropped in a box with one's own hand on Election Day.
 
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WVUBRU

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COOL MAN said:
Sent my ballot into my County's Board of Elections a week ago; perhaps that's that's not the same thing, strictly speaking, as "early voting"......even though the net effect is obviously the same.

Speaking only for myself, why an eligible voter wouldn't take of advantage of SOME manner of early voting in a Presidential election......in favor of going to the polls and dealing with the crowds and lines and campaigners standing outside.....IS puzzling to me. Perhaps those are the folks who just don't believe their vote counts if it's not dropped in a box with one's own hand on Election Day.
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I actually enjoy the process of going to my polling place on Election Day. It feels like I am doing my duty. I enjoy seeing the people doing the same thing I am doing and believing in the system. In addition, early voting in my county doesn't cut down on waiting in line and in fact, the lines for early voting is worse than on Election Day.
 
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moe

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May 29, 2001
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Early voted yesterday in Fayette County, waited in line 20 minutes at 3pm. WV has broken their early voting record with 2 days left for it so it seems like voter turnout may be strong. I wanted to be done with it as well.
 
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CAJUNEER_rivals

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moe said:
Early voted yesterday in Fayette County, waited in line 20 minutes at 3pm. WV has broken their early voting record with 2 days left for it so it seems like voter turnout may be strong. I wanted to be done with it as well.
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Fayetteville County, huh? You're a voice crying in the wilderness there.
 
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moe

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CAJUNEER said:
Fayetteville County, huh? You're a voice crying in the wilderness there.
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Dems still lead voter registration in the state. Trump will likely carry the state but the gov will be Dem (J.Justice).
 
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moe

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Really? Didn't know. All of my family is from there, and most still live there. They speak as if the democrats are all but gone.
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Fayette is nearly 3-1 Democrat vs. Republican

County

Democrat Republican Mountain Libertarian No Party Other Total
BARBOUR 4101 3504 14 26 1864 311 9820
BERKELEY 23507 28011 155 417 23329 611 76030
BOONE 9585 2326 18 24 1960 774 14687
BRAXTON 5488 1850 6 15 1507 69 8935
BROOKE 10199 4562 13 60 3647 373 18854
CABELL 26511 18809 69 221 10589 713 56912
CALHOUN 3231 1275 8 18 1065 321 5918
CLAY 3442 1238 8 4 701 462 5855
DODDRIDGE 962 2650 11 9 867 171 4670
FAYETTE 14856 5847 65 67 5774 99 26708

http://www.sos.wv.gov/elections/history/Pages/Voter_Registration.aspx
 
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MikeRafone

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One of the first emails I got in the early days of the internet was from a friend who is a PoliSci prof. He had just got his first tenured job and was writing to let me know the state had discovered there were more registered voters in McDowell County than there were people. He wrote, " And I thought you were bullshitting me about those little towns."

When we were in college I had at the State House packing and delivering a multitude of trays of mail to the post office in Charleston. It was mind numbing as it had to be hand sorted by zip code. After the second month it struck me that there were way more welfare checks going to the little towns I knew than there were people living around there. Once I dug into it a little deeper I found out it was a statewide phenomena. I told him about when we got back to school.

About four years after that job, my cousin got married to a girl from way out in the wilds of Braxton County. We went up there to hunt in the fall of '81 and I met his father in law. He'd been running a little scam around his farm, creating a little compound of trailers where he housed his married kids, grandkids and relatives that could collect welfare on. He was making a pile "administrating" the scheme. About three days before, Reagan had announced he was going to limit welfare benefits to immediate family members and only so many.

We picked the old man up to take us out to where we going to hunt and a news report came on the radio about it, he went off. "Gawddamn, Gawddamn, f***in' with the welfare, it's unconstitutional!"

He calms down and about a half a mile late he starts yelling "Stop! Stop!" I figured he had to piss, so I pulled over. He goes, "Whatcha doin'? Back up! Didn't you see that dead coon back there? That's 25 dollars layin' right beside the road!" He ran back, got it, chucked it in the back of the truck and down the road we went. Your tax dollars at work.
 
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