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Avoid feeling foolish — don’t vote early
Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 | 2 a.m.
I know nobody listens. I know I am a broken record. I know some of you have already done it over the weekend. But anyone who votes early is an ignoramus and a sloth. Harsh? Perhaps. But why vote before all the information is in? Convenience? Is voting that unimportant? What about avoiding long lines? Oh, please. In any of these races, perhaps especially the U.S. Senate race, anything can happen in the final fortnight. And if you vote, you miss it. How would you feel if you voted for someone who committed a crime — real or metaphorical — in the final days? Ignorant and lazy? I thought so.
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Unfortunately, as a poll-worker on Election Day, in a precinct other than my own, I have a limited option and I mistrust absent ballots more.
C'mon, Ralston! You are better than that! What are you really afraid-of? Why don't you comment on how many of our soldiers overseas are being denied the right to vote? Now, that's a REAL travesty!
Based on Johm's logic, every voter shouldn't show up to the polls until 6:30 pm on election day just in case some big news story happens earlier in the day. Based on my logic, once the polls are open, and a voter has decided for whom they will cast a ballot, they should vote.
I think this is more about ratings and readership than civic responsibility. John, I promise to watch you for the next two weeks as much as I have watched you since you moved to Channel 3.
According to my unscientific poll, the majority of early voters are voting straight party lines...
Are you a proponent of knee jerk voting decisions based on the latest F-2-F, or are you just concerned that after we vote, no one has to really listen to the pundits for another 18 months...
Count me in as an ignoramus and a sloth, but John, when I start calling you names, remember... YOU STARTED IT.
Perhaps if American journalism had a better record for accuracy, I'd think about it, but I've always based my vote on something besides current events.
Early voting is a great tool. I travel out of the country for a living and will be out of the country on November 2, 2010. If it were not for the early voting option, my vote would not be cast.
There are more logical reasons for early voting other than being a moron.
Early voting does not take long because it's pretty quick to vote party lines.
I voted early because nothing is gonna change on my ballot. Straight Democrat or we give it all back to the Republican bufoons who drove America in the ditch over the last 30 years. If you want to live under a bridge,...eat from a dumpster a Republican vote will make it happen. It has taken the Republicans years to destroy us,...and giving any of them a vote this time,...progress ends. The Republicans care about only two things,...greed and all the money in the world.
Nobody can clean up the mess Bush made in only two years. Anyone voting Republican has given up on America
I look at early voting as a convenience. Campaigns look at it as a prognostic indicator of election outcomes. At this point, I can't imagine anything Harry Reid could do that would keep him from getting my vote.
Nor can I imagine anything Sharron Angle could to to earn my vote.