Vote selling! Right in our backyard! It's Tammany Hall all over again! :-)

I was at the polls at 6:40 AM- I'm supposed to be at work at 7 am, but I told everyone yesterday I'd be a little late today.

By the time the polls officially opened at 7, there were about 30 folks waiting. No problems getting and getting the vote made; now I just have to cross my fingers and hope Diebold doesn't decide not to deliver it.

We don't get to vote until May. :( It'll all be over by then.

I'm also jealous of the Super Tuesday folks.

What the hell. How can you not care who the next President is?

When you work for a dictator like me? Bwa ha ha ha ha!

The power of a dictator ends at the steps of the Supreme Court, the forms coming in the mail from the IRS, and the number of military funerals in your neighborhood, though. Yeesh.

I'm tired of tolerating the apathetic. Shun and shame them! There are people who have hard, tightly-thought-out objections to voting, and are active in other ways, and so be it. But sheer disinterest and laziness? Bleah. That's what lets same-old same-old continue forever.

Perhaps it's best if they opt out. Less dumpkopfs voting. Of course, that's what people I deeply disagree with would say - 'keep the hoi polloi out of it, they can't be trusted with serious decisions. Let's only encourage Our Crowd to vote.'

Anyway. Here's a place to track primary results and here's the Democratic preview page and Republican page.

Boo. I miss being part of Super Tuesday, now that there's Super Dooper Tuesday, and I only vote on weak-ass Former Super Tuesday.

PA doesn't vote until April. I feel left out. But I will be participating in Fasnacht Day. Everybody eat a donut!

And for dinner tonight, we'll be celebrating Mardi Gras with shrimp po' boys (or my yankee approximation of such.) Super Fat Tuesday! Gonna get Super Fat!

I voted! It was the first time in our new precinct, and things were a little confused compared to the old one. Chicago still has paper ballots - you fill in the arrow pointing to your candidate with the special pen, and then they scan it in.

There were 2 precincts voting in the same location. When you walked in, the workers started shouting at you "48 or 30? 48 or 30?" to direct you to the correct table. Almost everyone was there for 48, including us, so a line formed. The three men checking people in and handing out the ballots bickered constantly about stupid things like pens. The first guy was asking people what party they want to declare, which is incorrect (Illinois is an open primary, you're not declaring your party, you're just picking what party ballot you want) and was confusing people. They bickered about pens some more. The guy running the thing that coded cards for the one electronic voting machine didn't appear to know what he was doing - to be perfectly honest, I'm glad I did not vote electronically because I would have had little confidence my vote was actually counted. More bickering about pens. Finally we voted and left, lacking confidence in the poll workers for our precinct, but fairly sure everything was mostly ok.

My friend got to vote in a Women's Workout World while a step class was going on.

misskaz: we also had multiple precincts at my poll (in Boystown). I stood in line with all the people I recognize from my bus route.

The Chicago Bar Association's "printable pocket guide to the judicial primary" is downloadable here. Too late for those of us who morning voted, but not the lunch and evening voters! And still relevant in November.

crush-onastick: Cool! I just printed out a sample ballot to mark/remember all my choices and used voteforjudges.org to help me with the judges. I wish more people paid attention to the retention of judges in the main elections, too.

I'm sitting it out.....if NY put propositions on the ballot like CA does, I'd go in because I'd be voting for things for which I'd made a decision.

I wonder if the Obama supporters who've been displaying the slogan "bros before hos" ( and this is a slap in the face to all women who considered the Democrats to be the ones who best spoke for them) would like to see one reading "sisters before n*****s".

There's still the possibility of President Pelosi......

The 'bros before hos' folks are Obama supporters? I thought they were just sleazy t-shirt-selling opportunists.

SF has the arrow ballots, too. They were giving people a choice to use the touchscreen instead, but I didn't see anyone taking them up on it.

My polling place was fairly empty at 8am -- about five people in the process of voting and five people in front of me in line. But that's what it's pretty consistently been like for any of the elections I've voted in here.

The ones who've bought stuff with the slogan and Obama's image are.

The ones who've bought stuff with the slogan and Obama's image are.

I think it's possible that they're trying to be annoying and dismissive, and have apparently succeeded in alienating at least one person from the process which all citizens have a right to participate in.

Say it again, Miko!

I'm not a citizen, so can't vote, but did drive my wife to the local fire station at 7 am. She voted and I got the sticker :)

(meant Miko's first comment :)

...from the process which all citizens have a right duty to participate in.

Voting is pretty much the only thing that I'm an asshole about, though.

I wanted a sticker, but my polling place didn't seem to have any :-(

The London Paper reports America Ferrera is backing Clinton, so that's who you must all vote for.

Early voted last week. The thing that royally sucks here is that you have no option if you vote early -- it's touchscreens or nada.

I understand in certain states you can vote via XBox Live

And, in Australia, via the Wii's 'Everybody Votes' channel.

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(Actually, our caucus isn't until this Saturday. Still, the image seemed to fit.)

I prepped my ballot with thevoterguide.org (including judges!) and finished in 5 minutes, tops. Easy-peasy and with plenty of time to exchange "vote early and often" jokes with my neighbors, much to the consternation of the election officials.

Jeez, my wife's still torn up about who to vote for. She seems to like Obama better, but she's thinking voting for Clinton as a protest for all the sexist horseshit she's had to endure in the campaign.

Damnit! My primary is over a month away, so my vote really doesn't count!

I want results, dabnabbit! ::taps foot impatiently::

I don't understand why everybody doesn't get to vote the way we do it in Oregon: by mail. It's a fantastic system - you get your ballot and voter's pamphlet in the mail a couple weeks before election day. Then you've got plenty of time to read up and make up your mind. Fill in the circles with a pen (hard to mess that up!) and put it in the mail. Or if you prefer, hand drop it at a collection location in a public building such as the library. It works so damn well - I don't get why the rest of the country doesn't do it.

Colorado is a caucus state this year, and it's actually early enough that everything isn't already decided (today). I'm not participating since I don't belong to a political party. The pooches and I will have our own caucus. One interesting thing is when Obama was here last week he attracted more people to his rally than caucused for the democrats in the last election. Another cool thing is my workplace pays us for our time to vote. You can come in late, leave early, or take time during the day to vote.

I got to use one of those thick black markers that smells like licorice. I think I probably came out of the voting booth with a little black dot on my nose.

Since I registered as an Independent, I can't vote in the primary here. I told this to all the leafletters all over the place today. I'm thinking of commiting a felony so they'll leave me alone in perpetuity.

I'll vote for the Yankees winning the World Series

he's obviously a registered Communist.