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1 posted on 02/07/2008 8:14:38 AM PST by SmithL
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I think we should have ranked voting where if your first choice drops out the second ranked vote would count.

So Thompson voters would vote for Romney for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRV


2 posted on 02/07/2008 8:16:20 AM PST by Munson
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Never mind primary elections, I’ve had buyer’s remorse for every presidential election since 1988, absentee or no.


4 posted on 02/07/2008 8:23:29 AM PST by Hazwaste
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If and when we vote Absentee....we never send them until the last minute.....or we deliver them to our local polling place.....I don’t trust the County....


5 posted on 02/07/2008 8:31:48 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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Here in Calif. I marked my absentee ballot for FT, but didn’t mail it in because he dropped out. On Tuesday I told them I wanted them to void my ballot and give me another one so I could vote for the candidate of my choice who was still running. They gave me a very hard time and told me I should just go with my previously marked ballot because “it wouldn’t make any difference since all the delegates are going to be allocated anyway.” I kept insisting, and they finally told me I would have to come back later because they didn’t know what to do. It did get resolved 2 hours later though.


6 posted on 02/07/2008 8:38:43 AM PST by ZGuy
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Conservatives care about the United States so much ...
that they're willing to DEFEAT McCain to save the nation!!!

McCain needs to wake up and smell the "VILE"!!!

"Bipartisanship" Is A Dirty Word; and RUSH: "We want to defeat them"

12 posted on 02/07/2008 9:03:46 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: SmithL

I don’t trust absentee voting. Many more votes would have gone for Romney at the last moment to help him beat McAmnesty.


13 posted on 02/07/2008 9:17:02 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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"I sent in my ballot three weeks ago," she said. "A few days later he was gone. My friends were laughing at me."

I am compelled to ask, why were they laughing? Because her vote was thrown in the trash by her voting early, or that whe would vote for silky pony in the first place?

14 posted on 02/07/2008 9:21:46 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Don't trust anyone who can’t take a joke. [Congressman BillyBob])
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However, there is still confusion about the process. Many think that the ballot only has to be postmarked by the day before the election.

"Actually," said Mulholland, "it has to be in the government's hand by 8 p.m. election day. In Los Angeles County, 36,819 ballots were received the day after the election. They are all null and void."

What does "in the hands of the government" mean? Isn't the USPS "the government"? And if 36,819 were "received" (I assume they mean by the election office) on February 6th, those would have had to be mailed (and "in the hands of the government"--USPS) on February 5th.

Call me confused.

15 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:01 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: SmithL

They will get another chance in the election.

However, I don’t know if anyone has caught on yet. We conservatives have been stripped of both our choices and vote.

Does that mean anything to anyone?


17 posted on 02/07/2008 6:13:51 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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