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[RedKing]

My wife and I are leaving to vote momentarily.

I initially processed that as "voting to leave momentarily".

I read it as a statement of the extreme temporal transience of any vote so cast, perhaps not even surviving in the ballot-box/database long enough to be counted.

I figure in Georgia and Kansas, it's sort of an electoral Heisenberg: All ballots are Republican until directly observed, which consumes energy. Therefore, to save energy, we're not going to look at the actual ballots and we'll just assume they're all Republican. Now just you run along now, and don't worry your pretty little heads any...

[Kagus]

My wife and I are leaving to vote momentarily.

I initially processed that as "voting to leave momentarily".

Brexit fever has spread so far that even the US wants to secede from the EU? Incredible.


I actually know a guy who ended up in the ballot for mayor's office by accident. He has no idea how it happened, only that he woke up the day after getting blackout drunk and kept getting congratulated by random people... Eventually he found out that he was apparently registered as his township's Left party mayoral candidate.

Ended up with about 13% of the vote, if I recall. Still the best drunk story I've heard.

[RedKing]

I still like the Norwegian black metal guy who let the local election put his name on their candidate list and then accidentally wound up getting elected to the town council. And was like "Fuck, I don't want to have to politician now!"

"My campaign was a picture of me holding my cat saying, 'Please don’t vote for me.' But people just went nuts," Fenriz said.

There's also a small town in Minnesota that had a dog as mayor. He was re-elected three times, before retiring this year.


These are the elected officials we need more of: Awkward. Somewhat unwilling. Definitely not in it for the money and fame. Sometimes floofy.

[scriver]

Someomw whose bark is worse than their bite

[RedKing]

Downside: Definite uptick in anti-squirrel legislation.

I'm also slightly saddened that Idaho is losing a (term-limited) governor named Butch Otter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He is neither butch, nor an otter.

[misko27]

I'm tired. Busy election. Even in the rain, turnout is up.

Someone comes up to me after voting. Gives me a thumbs up. "You guys are doing a horrible job." Another thumbs up. Leaves. What am I supposed to do with this?

[Kagus]

I'm tired. Busy election. Even in the rain, turnout is up.

Someone comes up to me after voting. Gives me a thumbs up. "You guys are doing a horrible job." Another thumbs up. Leaves. What am I supposed to do with this?

Yes we can!

[RedKing]

I'm tired. Busy election. Even in the rain, turnout is up.

Someone comes up to me after voting. Gives me a thumbs up. "You guys are doing a horrible job." Another thumbs up. Leaves. What am I supposed to do with this?

Say "Thank you!"
Flip him/her off.
Say "We appreciate your valuable feedback"?

[wierd]

Oh no.  The proper sardonic retort is:

"You get what you pay for!"

[Rolan7]

Do we have an IRC room for this?

Last time it was #bay12asylum on, I want to say rizon, but I don't see anything bay12 there now.  Or on darkmyst, which supposedly had bay12lb fairly recently.  #bay12lb just wasn't showing up in the search for some reason, but it is on darkmyst.  I guess - pretty bare, I guess most people went to Discord.

Edit:  Yeah I'm just on the Discord now, that's probably the easiest way.  I'd been meaning to do so anyway.

[Dunamisdeos]

There was literally no line at my voter place.

[Rolan7]

Hopefully because so many early voted, I don't know what state you're in...
There's a polling location a quarter mile from me now, I'm about to drive past it.  It was pretty busy for the primary actually, I bet it's packed!

[misko27]

Flip him/her off.

Much as I'd like to, I think it'd get the people I work with in trouble, and they don't deserve that. It'd get them in trouble because they'd all completely understand why I did it and defend me. As it is, a fellow employee came up to me wondering what that was all about and laughed with me about it. People are cray-cray.

Another great moment: a senior comes up to me while I'm directing the line for the privacy booths, and asks me where to go. I direct them to the line. They ask if they really have to stand in that line, and say something like "Even though I'm a senior?" I say to her "Well, there are seniors in line too." In truth, I was understating it. A fellow employee joked to me that the average age in the room is 97. That's obviously untrue... but there are lot of old people. Now, admittedly, my district is already full of older people. And we've had plenty of younger voters. But still. Lots of them.

"You get what you pay for!"

Now this is appropriate. People complain at us because we don't have any pens (they've stolen them all! Taken them right out of the privacy booths. ), because of the line, because machines break down... I say, "What are we supposed to do? We're working at capacity. And no one else wants to work all day for as little as you pay us." Apparently there was some article about how we don't get paid enough... have to look for that.

Hell, at no point since 6:00 AM have we not been operating at full capacity. The line outside has not gone away. Ever. Only recently has it stopped stretching past the 100 ft "no electioneering" sign.

There was literally no line at my voter place.

Don't you live in a hurricane or something? Maybe that's why.

Do we have an IRC room for this?

Last time it was #bay12asylum on, I want to say rizon, but I don't see anything bay12 there now.  Or on darkmyst, which supposedly had bay12lb fairly recently.  #bay12lb just wasn't showing up in the search for some reason, but it is on darkmyst.  I guess - pretty bare, I guess most people went to Discord.

Edit:  Yeah I'm just on the Discord now, that's probably the easiest way.  I'd been meaning to do so anyway.

Erm, what discord?

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm in VA, and there is mild rain today. I voted at Noon, hopefully everyone voted before that time? I should have asked if they were busy earlier.

[McTraveller]

I'm still trying to decide who to write in for most of the positions on my ballot, because I literally do not want anyone who is listed.

Is it wrong to just want to vote on the ballot proposals and just give a "vote of no confidence" for every other position?