[married21]

Even in the primitive precincts, the party knows who voted if there are precinct watchers. I might be one tomorrow, for a local race. I was told I’d be checking a printed list that is updated throughout the day and posted outside the polling place. Based on who isn’t checked off as voting, we start making phone calls or personal door to door visits. This is just a bigger system than that. If anything, because Orca is not your neighbor looking down the list at your name and forming a personal opinion of you, it may be less invasive than somebody like me doing it the primitive way.

[boatbums]

On that note....I got a letter in the mail a few days ago presumably showing myself and eight other neighbors on our block and whether or not we voted in 2004, 2008 and 2012. It showed that I voted in '08 and '12 (early voting) but said I didn't vote in 2004. The problem is that I DID vote in 2004 but not here in North Carolina (we didn't move here until '06). There was no explanation anywhere on the form for that possibility so what steams me is my neighbors will think I failed to vote in 2004. It does start to feel a little creepy.

[nikos1121]

When I lived in Chicago, I clearly recall being home form college on election day. the precinct captain came to our house five times to get me to vote.

That’s the old fashion way, but it reelected old Mayor Daly, the father, over and over again.

[nikos1121]

BTW I voted republican...