[Sca-cooks] Expression of Citizenship OT

[Sue Clemenger]

Wow! That's something! I was the 2000th something just in my scanner machine
(paper ballots that are slid into a scanner here), and there were several at
my polling station.  We actually hit record high voter turnout yesterday.
People were still voting at midnight, apparently, because some lines were so
long.  Not mine, although I did have to walk in a rain so hard it was
bouncing off the sidewalks, and it just doesn't *do* that here! I think
parts of me are still damp!
Montanans had a lot to think about and vote on this year, so maybe that's
part of it?
--Maire

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Expression of Citizenship OT


>
> On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Wanda Pease wrote:
>
> > Ah, The benefits of living in one of the United States 3rd World
> > Countries -
> > Oregon!  We voted about a week and 1/2 ago and mailed it in.
> > Nothing higher
> > tech than a stubby pencil and the residual memory of being forced
> > to color
> > within the lines :-).
>
> Hey, the degree of effective technology is determined by whether they
> count them, not by how they record them.
>
> > Looking out at the pouring rain (Pineapple Express they call it) I
> > was so
> > happy not to be standing in line at my local polling place.
> > Utilizing a
> > large wheeled dump truck to get through the back roads with the
> > ballots was
> > also avoided. I could even wear my o -Pin- ion pin and not be asked
> > to take
> > it off in the Polling place :-)  Sadly, only a 61% turn out for an
> > off year
> > election, but at least we voted.
> >
> > Heavens, we let our military vote; with something other than their
> > guns, and
> > they like it that way.
> >
> > Regina
>
> I was pretty disturbed to be told, in pleasant, passing conversation
> that in a city of 8.5 million people, I was the 100th person to vote
> at my polling place at 12:10PM.
>
> Adamantius
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