Yeah, I voted the shit out of that vote.
I was 100% prepared for any suspicious voting hijinks when I went into the Records Building downtown to cast my early ballot this afternoon. I brought my driver’s license, passport, social security card and a copy of my birth certificate, two pieces of mail with my name and address on them, my voter registration card and the provisional voter registration card I was issued when I registered to vote, and the phone number of my county election commissioner in case I was forced into a provisional ballot.
Turns out, I didn’t need any of it.
Voting took 13 minutes from curb to curb.
I pretty much voted straight party, except in the case of one district court judge seat, where a republican and a libertarian were running, and I voted third party there because I support a multi-party system, the idea of voting for anyone in a party with an ideology so wildly opposed to my general existence as a woman in a lesbian relationship is distasteful and just wrong, and the guy’s name was Bill Strange. How could I NOT? Also I abstained voting for county sheriff because I hate the incumbent democrat and see above, re: voting republican EVER.
So yeah, guys. Vote early. The quarter in your parking meter won’t even run out. And there’s a little Greek cafe in the records building with killer-smelling gyros.
The Lower Octave said,
October 29, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I did the same thing, minus the one with the Libertarian. Sometimes Libertarians scare me. Not that one in one of the district court judge seats matters. But I just didn’t vote on that one.
I like the conflict that arose from the Sheriff’s race for you. She, being a lesbian, yet one of the worst Sheriff’s we had. I’m with you. I didn’t vote on that one, either.
I’d like to pray to Bill Maher that Texas would one day be blue again.
s said,
October 30, 2008 at 12:37 am
yay for you!
i’m working as a poll worker on election day (but i already voted absentee). i’m SO PUMPED about it.
The Lower Octave said,
October 30, 2008 at 12:49 am
It was kinda freakin’ me out. It was either on Bill Maher’s show, or Rachel Madow’s, where some guy was saying the best thing you could do, if you’ve already voted, is to stand outside polling locations on Tuesday with a video camera, and if anyone comes out saying that they wouldn’t let them vote for some weird reason, to document it. That shit’s ferreal.