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Readers unhappy with loss of privacy in Michigan primary elections
Kalamazoo Gazette ^ | 12/28/2011 | Julie Mack

Posted on 12/28/2011 7:42:17 PM PST by Snoopers-868th

For decades, Michigan voters have been able to vote in primary elections without anyone knowing whether they were choosing the Democratic or Republican ballot.

That changes under a new law that goes in action for February's presidential primary.

Now the candidates for each party will be printed on separate ballots, and voters will have to fill out a form at the polls that states which ballot they are selecting.

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: michigan; migop; primary; rnc
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To: no-to-illegals

In CT I never had a ballot scanned, except for the tabulating machine, just went to the table presented ID, whether they liked it or not, and was handed a ballot from a stack.


21 posted on 12/28/2011 8:11:51 PM PST by matt04
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To: Jonty30
That sounds dangerous. I don’t want anybody to know whom I voted for.

No one will. All it does is record which party's primary you chose to participate in. It is actually quite common all across the country and has been for many decades.

22 posted on 12/28/2011 8:12:08 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Snoopers-868th
Dont be complainin now!


23 posted on 12/28/2011 8:13:13 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: matt04
If scanned again, will not keep me from voting, though the implications would leave me with questions, not that I would ask, for in my neck of the woods asking questions is hugh and series.
24 posted on 12/28/2011 8:16:34 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: cripplecreek

You are exactly right. It is worse then before.

Primary elections at state expense are subsidies for the established political parties already and now they are marketing events as well.


25 posted on 12/28/2011 8:18:20 PM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: ElkGroveDan

We do things different in Canada. When we vote, all the candidates or on one sheet of paper.

There is no keeping track of which party is being voted for, other than the fact that a certain party has taken the riding.


26 posted on 12/28/2011 8:18:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Snoopers-868th

Absolutely 0 chance of union controlled voter intimidation THERE folks, just as there was no chance of conflict of interest when the SEIU got Harry Reid reelected in Nevada. Nope, such a thing would be highly unexpected.


27 posted on 12/28/2011 8:19:48 PM PST by cake_crumb (I'm not racist; I don't like his white half either.)
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To: Snoopers-868th

Wow, that makes tossing Republican ballots in the shredder much easier.


28 posted on 12/28/2011 8:20:02 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: lightman

I don’t believe I have ever declared a party and I have voted for years and years.

Always printed out name and signed a paper. Paper was compared to voting roll, name was crossed off and I was given a ballot. I don’t recall if it was numbered or not but I usually ask how many have voted.

We still have, or at least we had in 2010, the same system. The ballot was via black pen connect-the-arrow method then I put the ballot in an automated tabulation thingy and my ballot was put in a locked cylinder.


29 posted on 12/28/2011 8:23:50 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: MamaDearest
Wow, that makes tossing Republican ballots in the shredder much easier.

LOL presorted.
30 posted on 12/28/2011 8:25:30 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: savagesusie
I am a registered Republican.

I don't vote in Democrat primary elections for their candidates. I am not a Democrat.
I don't want Democrats and/or misc. unaffiliated people voting in Republican primary elections. They are not Republicans.

Who you vote for in general elections is your business.

But you should not be allowed to vote in a primary, for a party you are not affiliated with.

31 posted on 12/28/2011 8:28:19 PM PST by sarasmom
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To: Snoopers-868th

Oh, and we do have to show ID.


32 posted on 12/28/2011 8:28:43 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: Snoopers-868th

All they’re doing is making people choose their party in the primary like most other states do. They aren’t revealing who that person voted for however.

Not a problem for me. I want Republicans picking Republicans, and Democrats picking Democrats as much as possible. Would rather have contrast than two mushy middlers parsing platitudes and putting their finger in the wind so we avoid the John McCains of the world.


33 posted on 12/28/2011 8:30:22 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Election 2012 - No Prisoners. No Mercy.)
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To: Snoopers-868th

Voter ID knocked down in the state where I reside. Hugh and Series!


34 posted on 12/28/2011 8:31:08 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Snoopers-868th

We even got a magnetic strip reader for driver’s licenses when voting now.


35 posted on 12/28/2011 8:31:38 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: G Larry

We have had voter ID in Michigan about as long as I have lived here (20 years).


36 posted on 12/28/2011 8:34:22 PM PST by bwc2221
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To: cripplecreek

Wow, you are high tech.


37 posted on 12/28/2011 8:35:22 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: bwc2221

As noted in my post #15:

HA!

Wait til Holder’s DOJ gets through with you!

....sometime before next November.......


38 posted on 12/28/2011 8:39:01 PM PST by G Larry ("I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his Character.")
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To: cripplecreek

Are IDs being run through a machine before allowing a vote to be cast? Just curious. Please Lord, no death threats. Amen.


39 posted on 12/28/2011 8:41:11 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Snoopers-868th.
For decades, Michigan voters have been able to vote in primary elections without anyone knowing whether they were choosing the Democratic or Republican ballot.
By "decaces" this story must mean about 20 or 25 years; I remember voting in a primary at the Kentwood library, and having to fill out the party pref card in order to receive the (one-party) ballot, must have been somewhere in the range of late 1983 to early 1985. It changed sometime after that.


40 posted on 12/28/2011 8:48:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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