Posted on 11/06/2010 5:05:09 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
Here is an article from the Bangor Daily News. Eliot Cutler second place in the governor's race thinks he could have won if not for early voting by Democrats. Cutler, a Rat turned "independent" started to close the gap between himself and LaPage. A week before the election, LaPage had a solid lead with about 40% of the vote, Cutler, "independent" and Mitchell, Democrat each had about 26% of the vote. The word went out that Mitchell was not going to win so all good Democrats should vote for Cutler. They did and there was a shift from Mitchell to Cutler. The shift only occurred just before election day and a good number of Rats had voted early and for Mitchell, so they never got the word.
I will be following this story but on thing to remember, any changes in the law to encourage early voting would have been passed by Democrat legislators who have controlled the legislature pretty much since 1975 or so. Too bad, so sad for the Democrats.
I don’t care who invented it, early voting needs to be eliminated. It’s nothing but an open invitation for RATS to cheat and defraud. Absentee ballots were good enough for decades, everyone else should vote on election day. Period.
I agree with you 100% but it looks like the idea conceived by rats for the reasons you indicate actually helped the Republican. Poetic justice I should think.
Hoist with their own petard.
LePage.
The guy has a point. Until we get back to actually going to vote on election day, there’s all kids of possibilities for hanky panky and this early voting crap needs to go away.
I had this conversation today. When/where did early voting start?
This is real bad for us, IMO. The Dems are pros at cheating on one day, never mind giving them 3-4 weeks to pull pimps and crackheads to the polls.
“helped the Republican”
Then I look for them to either do away with it altogether, or to insist that early voting only be made available to the potentially disenfranchised.
and that should be the ONLY definition of "Early Voting", IMHO!!!!
Here are examples of a couple more bombs blowing up in the jackasses’ own faces. If the Dems hadn’t changed Massachusett’s senatorial succession law, a Democrat would occupy Teddy Kennedy’s old senate seat instead of Sen. Brown. Without Blago’s shenanigans, a stronger Democrat than Burris would have been appointed to Obama’s old senate seat. Now Kirk is the senator elect. So much for their scheming.
I love it when the laws of unintended consequence steamroll the jackasses themselves.
Things turned out pretty good in Michigan without early voting. We didn’t take every congressional seat we wanted but we did extremely well.
Early voting provides multiple chances for cheating. Id be kind of curious to take a look at early voting states compared to single day voting states.
early voting in Maine is by absentee ballot.
The only tweak I would make to our voting is to make it a single 24 hour period where all polls nationwide open and close simultaneously.
LOL!! Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and GET OVER IT!!
Have you ever worked as an election judge, election clerk, or poll watcher? Where are you going to get poll workers for 24 hour shifts. It would take twice as many people. It’s hard enough to find enough people to work one 12 hour shift for minimum wage.
Florida, Nebraska, Texas, Alaska ... and others all have more than one time zone.
Why should voters be treated less just because they live in another time zone?
I agree. We switched to mail-only voting here in Oregon and I hate it. I miss going to the polls and seeing my friends and neighbors, all joining together in this great experience called Democracy.
Ed
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