1st at the polls today - The Firearms Forum

358 winchester · 11-02-2004, 08:44 AM

Yep Carla and I were the first two at the polls in our precinct today we arrived at 0642 and voted at 0703 she was 1st and I was 2nd.
The line was long when we came out but not one person there was wearing any FLIP-FLOPS so that may be a good sign for the north end of our county.

BUSH IS MY MAN

Mabooger · 11-02-2004, 08:53 AM

That didn't leave ya much time for eating donuts & drinking your coffee

I had to laugh on the news this morning they were reporting some little town in NH has 39 residents, 33 were registered. They opened at midnight & were done voting by 8 minutes after.

Bush won by 1 -- only after a recount & then another double check. The first count had them tied.

How in the he** do you screw up counting 33 votes. Gives me alot of faith in the rest of the system.

I'll be glad when it's over - sick of all the newscasters polls (guesses) & all the assumptions !

It's gonna be a LONG night I'm afraid .

May the best man win ------ Bush

22WRF · 11-02-2004, 09:27 AM

We just got back from the polls. No line, but busy.

My exit poll results

Bush 2
Kerry0

offeror · 11-02-2004, 10:49 AM

I got to the polls about 11 am after a veterinary appointment, and I am told I missed the crowd during the morning rush hour -- of course, that was part of my plan.

Three girls outside the front doors were handing out Republican literature, and I've had at least 5 phone calls in the last 24 hours urging me to vote Republican -- including a taped message from Laura Bush and a message from the NRA-ILA supporting the Republican (Indiana) Attorney General. The conservatives are doing a great job touching base with their grass roots.

Oh yeah, I also had one group come to my door yesterday, Republicans for the gubernatorial candidate. I had a letter to the editor in the evening paper this week, myself, urging Republicans not to split their ticket, but vote a straight ballot -- we need all the Republicans in Congress that we can get since one vote in the Senate can pass or fail a bill on guns right now.

DemonDesert · 11-02-2004, 10:51 AM

I meant to go early, but I couldn't resist sitting around most of the morning drinking coffee. When I got to the voting machines, there was only one other person there, although the poll workers claimed it had been very busy ealier. It has been unusually cold (39--cold for here) and even more unusually wet, so that's a good sign people are going to turn out.

In an only half-official poll at my rural precinct, based on the observation that the other person there looked decent enough, I'd say the tally was:
Bush 2
Kerry 0

rescue2553 · 11-02-2004, 10:54 AM

I went down about 10a.m. and had almost a hours wait very large for a small county never in all my years have i had to wait that long to vote. I am bothered by what I saw there 70 to 80% of the people where under the age of 25. We all know who there voting for they believe the lies. And 358 I got you message and don`t laugh I don`t know how to return the message? we will need to talk in the future sometime. and a personal thank you for doing that.

Craig · 11-02-2004, 11:45 AM

"I got to the polls about 11 am after a veterinary appointment"

Offeror: Don't they have doctors in your town?

I will vote on my way home.

njretcop · 11-02-2004, 12:30 PM

Mrs njretcop and I voted at 7:00am. The polls are open in NJ from 6:00am to 8:00pm.

Our voting district is very small, mostly just neighborhood people. 100 votes cast in the whole day is a lot. We were numbers 51 and 52 in the first hour. Looks like it's gonna be BIG!

GO W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marlin · 11-02-2004, 01:09 PM

SoMo and I just got back from the polls.

We are fit to be tied because we weren't allowed to vote for Bush!!!!!!!!!

SouthernMoss · 11-02-2004, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marlin

SoMo and I just got back from the polls.

We are fit to be tied because we weren't allowed to vote for Bush!!!!!!!!!

358 winchester · 11-02-2004, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Craig

"I got to the polls about 11 am after a veterinary appointment"

Offeror: Don't they have doctors in your town?

I will vote on my way home.

Craig I was going to ask the same thing

I just hope it wasn't serious

358 winchester · 11-02-2004, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthernMoss

EXCUSE ME BUT I NEED MORE INFO WHY NOT????????

358 winchester · 11-02-2004, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marlin

SoMo and I just got back from the polls.

We are fit to be tied because we weren't allowed to vote for Bush!!!!!!!!!

What I need to know more why not or have I just been had?
RON

satellite66 · 11-02-2004, 04:07 PM

My wife and I voted around 0830 and went for breakfast. No line but we did get more than our usual amount of double takes. We had a fun day.

SouthernMoss · 11-02-2004, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by 358 winchester

What I need to know more why not or have I just been had?
RON

They said we could only vote for Presidential Electors!

358 winchester · 11-02-2004, 05:10 PM

Miss. sure has some strange laws or you are still pulling my leg
Ron
and you is scaring the dodo out of me

goose3 · 11-02-2004, 05:17 PM

wife I and went at 4pm here in OHIO

we live out in the country and vote at a township hall. We waited nearly an hour.

I overheard someone say that there are 800 some odd people registered in our precinct and I was number 494!

mrs njretcop · 11-02-2004, 05:38 PM

Our boss at work (who also voted for W), said at her voting place there are 300 possible people and she was #280 at 9AM. Guess everyone at the Jersey Shore was out to vote early.

Marlin · 11-02-2004, 05:45 PM

Hey, Ron. Have you ever, by any slight chance, heard of the ELECTORAL COLLEGE???

Well, SoMo is right!!

We didn't vote for Bush. Our choice was for the ELECTORS representing a given party.

In Mississippi the ballot shows the vote to be for the individual Representatives to the Electoral College!

Actually, in ALL states, pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, we do NOT vote for the candidates themselves, but rather for the persons who will vote in December in the Electoral College session.

Most states probably show the Presidential candidates by name, but here it shows a vote cast for the Electoral College representatives. Alabama's ballot used to be the same way back in the sixties, but was changed by an amendment to the State Constitution to allow the Presidential candidates to to be named.

pickenup · 11-02-2004, 06:02 PM

Went at our usual time, bout 1pm.
2 of the 4 machines were open and ready.
No wait.
I like living in a small community.

SouthernMoss · 11-02-2004, 06:09 PM

Here's what it said on our ballot:

FOR
PRESIDENT
and
VICE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES
(VOTE FOR ONE SLATE OF
ELECTORS ONLY)

358 winchester · 11-02-2004, 06:38 PM

OK Marlin, I play like a DOCB but I am smart enough to know that we don't elect our Pres and VP I should have done a little more thinking before I responded to the post. I am so sorry that you didn't have the pleasure of putting an X by the Bush name Like I did because it dang sure felt good to me

and it was fun also

dge479 · 11-02-2004, 07:31 PM

Voted before 8 am, maybe at 7:30 , was a good lne too and we are a small town.

SouthernMoss · 11-02-2004, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 358 winchester

OK Marlin, I play like a DOCB but I am smart enough to know that we don't elect our Pres and VP I should have done a little more thinking before I responded to the post.

GOTCHA!!!!!

11-02-2004, 08:44 AM	#1
358 winchester TFF Admin Staff Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pensacola Fl. area Posts: 7,335	1st at the polls today Yep Carla and I were the first two at the polls in our precinct today we arrived at 0642 and voted at 0703 she was 1st and I was 2nd. The line was long when we came out but not one person there was wearing any FLIP-FLOPS so that may be a good sign for the north end of our county. BUSH IS MY MAN __________________ Administrator & Owner RangeDay.com Proud, White, Heterosexual, Gun Owning, Southern American, Christian. Any question about where I stand? -->

11-02-2004, 09:27 AM	#3
22WRF Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pea Ridge, FL Contributor Posts: 4,253	Re: 1st at the polls today We just got back from the polls. No line, but busy. My exit poll results Bush 2 Kerry0 __________________ NRA GOA CCRKBA Happiness is a warm barrel

11-02-2004, 10:49 AM	#4
offeror Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: NE Indiana Posts: 586	Re: 1st at the polls today I got to the polls about 11 am after a veterinary appointment, and I am told I missed the crowd during the morning rush hour -- of course, that was part of my plan. Three girls outside the front doors were handing out Republican literature, and I've had at least 5 phone calls in the last 24 hours urging me to vote Republican -- including a taped message from Laura Bush and a message from the NRA-ILA supporting the Republican (Indiana) Attorney General. The conservatives are doing a great job touching base with their grass roots. Oh yeah, I also had one group come to my door yesterday, Republicans for the gubernatorial candidate. I had a letter to the editor in the evening paper this week, myself, urging Republicans not to split their ticket, but vote a straight ballot -- we need all the Republicans in Congress that we can get since one vote in the Senate can pass or fail a bill on guns right now. __________________ The Second Amendment does not exist to protect the gun rights you like. It exists to protect the gun rights you hate.

11-02-2004, 10:51 AM	#5
DemonDesert V.I.P. Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: West Texas Posts: 58	Re: 1st at the polls today I meant to go early, but I couldn't resist sitting around most of the morning drinking coffee. When I got to the voting machines, there was only one other person there, although the poll workers claimed it had been very busy ealier. It has been unusually cold (39--cold for here) and even more unusually wet, so that's a good sign people are going to turn out. In an only half-official poll at my rural precinct, based on the observation that the other person there looked decent enough, I'd say the tally was: Bush 2 Kerry 0 __________________ NOLI PERTURBARE

11-02-2004, 10:54 AM	#6
rescue2553 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 146	Re: 1st at the polls today I went down about 10a.m. and had almost a hours wait very large for a small county never in all my years have i had to wait that long to vote. I am bothered by what I saw there 70 to 80% of the people where under the age of 25. We all know who there voting for they believe the lies. And 358 I got you message and don`t laugh I don`t know how to return the message? we will need to talk in the future sometime. and a personal thank you for doing that.

11-02-2004, 08:53 AM	#2
Mabooger V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: N.W. Pa. Posts: 475	Re: 1st at the polls today That didn't leave ya much time for eating donuts & drinking your coffee I had to laugh on the news this morning they were reporting some little town in NH has 39 residents, 33 were registered. They opened at midnight & were done voting by 8 minutes after. Bush won by 1 -- only after a recount & then another double check. The first count had them tied. How in the he** do you screw up counting 33 votes. Gives me alot of faith in the rest of the system. I'll be glad when it's over - sick of all the newscasters polls (guesses) & all the assumptions ! It's gonna be a LONG night I'm afraid . May the best man win ------ Bush __________________

11-02-2004, 11:45 AM	#7
Craig Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Central Pa. Posts: 561	Re: 1st at the polls today "I got to the polls about 11 am after a veterinary appointment" Offeror: Don't they have doctors in your town? I will vote on my way home. __________________ If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am. -Unknown

11-02-2004, 12:30 PM	#8
njretcop Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 1,537	Re: 1st at the polls today Mrs njretcop and I voted at 7:00am. The polls are open in NJ from 6:00am to 8:00pm. Our voting district is very small, mostly just neighborhood people. 100 votes cast in the whole day is a lot. We were numbers 51 and 52 in the first hour. Looks like it's gonna be BIG! GO W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ Charlie

11-02-2004, 01:09 PM	#9
Marlin TFF Admin Staff Chief Counselor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: At SouthernMoss' side forever! Contributor Posts: 13,853	Re: 1st at the polls today SoMo and I just got back from the polls. We are fit to be tied because we weren't allowed to vote for Bush!!!!!!!!! __________________ *The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.* *The only criminal class native to the United States is Congress.*

11-02-2004, 04:07 PM	#14
satellite66 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Central NJ Posts: 2,068	Re: 1st at the polls today My wife and I voted around 0830 and went for breakfast. No line but we did get more than our usual amount of double takes. We had a fun day. __________________ “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not” — Thomas Jefferson. "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

11-02-2004, 05:10 PM	#16
358 winchester TFF Admin Staff Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pensacola Fl. area Posts: 7,335	Re: 1st at the polls today Miss. sure has some strange laws or you are still pulling my leg Ron and you is scaring the dodo out of me __________________ Administrator & Owner RangeDay.com Proud, White, Heterosexual, Gun Owning, Southern American, Christian. Any question about where I stand?

11-02-2004, 05:17 PM	#17
goose3 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 102	Re: 1st at the polls today wife I and went at 4pm here in OHIO we live out in the country and vote at a township hall. We waited nearly an hour. I overheard someone say that there are 800 some odd people registered in our precinct and I was number 494! __________________

11-02-2004, 05:38 PM	#18
mrs njretcop Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 773	Re: 1st at the polls today Our boss at work (who also voted for W), said at her voting place there are 300 possible people and she was #280 at 9AM. Guess everyone at the Jersey Shore was out to vote early. __________________ Carol

11-02-2004, 05:45 PM	#19
Marlin TFF Admin Staff Chief Counselor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: At SouthernMoss' side forever! Contributor Posts: 13,853	Re: 1st at the polls today Hey, Ron. Have you ever, by any slight chance, heard of the ELECTORAL COLLEGE??? Well, SoMo is right!! We didn't vote for Bush. Our choice was for the ELECTORS representing a given party. In Mississippi the ballot shows the vote to be for the individual Representatives to the Electoral College! Actually, in ALL states, pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, we do NOT vote for the candidates themselves, but rather for the persons who will vote in December in the Electoral College session. Most states probably show the Presidential candidates by name, but here it shows a vote cast for the Electoral College representatives. Alabama's ballot used to be the same way back in the sixties, but was changed by an amendment to the State Constitution to allow the Presidential candidates to to be named. __________________ *The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.* *The only criminal class native to the United States is Congress.*

11-02-2004, 06:02 PM	#20
pickenup Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains Posts: 6,838	Re: 1st at the polls today Went at our usual time, bout 1pm. 2 of the 4 machines were open and ready. No wait. I like living in a small community. __________________ The gene pool needs chlorine

11-02-2004, 06:09 PM	#21
SouthernMoss Admin Tech Staff Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: SW MS Contributor Posts: 10,651	Re: 1st at the polls today Here's what it said on our ballot: FOR PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (VOTE FOR ONE SLATE OF ELECTORS ONLY) __________________ My Second protects your First "I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand." - Susan B Anthony

11-02-2004, 06:38 PM	#22
358 winchester TFF Admin Staff Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pensacola Fl. area Posts: 7,335	Re: 1st at the polls today OK Marlin, I play like a DOCB but I am smart enough to know that we don't elect our Pres and VP I should have done a little more thinking before I responded to the post. I am so sorry that you didn't have the pleasure of putting an X by the Bush name Like I did because it dang sure felt good to me and it was fun also __________________ Administrator & Owner RangeDay.com Proud, White, Heterosexual, Gun Owning, Southern American, Christian. Any question about where I stand?

11-02-2004, 07:31 PM	#23
dge479 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Haskell NJ Posts: 618	Re: 1st at the polls today Voted before 8 am, maybe at 7:30 , was a good lne too and we are a small town. __________________ Proud GOA and NRA member. Old Mopars and Guns, About as good as it gets. Guns Dont Kill, Socialized Healthcare does