Happy late b-day to ND!!!
Owen and Deena!Babies are adorable. Love the monkey cake!! I want one for my b-day next month.
I'm now calling into a conf call from hell. t cries and cries
Edit to change not to now. Freudian slip there?
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Glamcookie - Apr 17, 2006 7:59:31 am PDT #9638 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
erikaj - Apr 17, 2006 7:59:39 am PDT #9639 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Vote by mail does not take very long at all. But I am a big old wonk these days, and not at all sympathetic to the "they're all crooked, so who cares" argument, for instance.
billytea - Apr 17, 2006 8:00:58 am PDT #9640 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What's a furphy?
Ah. Another Australianism (now I'm back home, I don't police my language for international consumption as tightly). Basically an erroneous or improbable story.
Why the random ordering on Australian Ballots if not to minimalise the effect of some sorts of random voting?
Another furphy (ask for it by name!). Donkey voting isn't the same thing as uninformed voting, it's closer to an intent to register an invalid vote. Random ordering isn't intended as an intelligence test.
Has it been over 90% the whole time?
Yep. The first election was the lowest turnout, in recent years it's been around 95%. Interestingly, the Senate vote is generally slightly higher than the House vote.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 17, 2006 8:01:56 am PDT #9641 of 10001
What is even happening?
Vote by mail does not take very long at all. But I am a big old wonk these days, and not at all sympathetic to the "they're all crooked, so who cares" argument, for instance.Yes, even though it is true. We're looking for a plumb line. Skewed? We can work with. Fusilli? Not so much.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2006 8:03:04 am PDT #9642 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is it compensated or uncompensated, Jess?
Paid time off:
§ 17-118. Refusal to permit employees to attend election. A person or corporation who refuses an employee entitled to vote at an election the privilege of attending thereat, as provided by the election law, or subjects such employee to a penalty or reduction of wages because of the exercise of such privilege, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
brenda m - Apr 17, 2006 8:03:26 am PDT #9643 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
According to the bigass "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!" info board posted in my office's kitchen, employers (in NY state, at least) have to give employees 2 hours at either the beginning of the end of their shift to vote, if the employee does not have 4 hours of their own time to spare.
And with compulsory voting, this would be a lot more likely to actually happen, or for workers to actually feel free to request this without fear of repercussions.
Well, it usually takes me about half an hour. But I was thinking of the people who had to wait in line eight hours to vote....
And that again is something that does seem to disproportionately affect lower income areas.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2006 8:03:36 am PDT #9644 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Donkey voting isn't the same thing as uninformed voting, it's closer to an intent to register an invalid vote.
And donkey voting is...
Aims - Apr 17, 2006 8:04:25 am PDT #9645 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Walking up to the guy voting before you, punching him int he back of the head and while he's convulsing, stealing his ballot.
P.M. Marc - Apr 17, 2006 8:05:40 am PDT #9646 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Typically you can only vote absentee if you have some reason why you can't make it to the polls on election day.
Really? That must be a your-state thing. IIRC, WA's been talking about making some elections absentee ballot only.
billytea - Apr 17, 2006 8:07:37 am PDT #9647 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
And donkey voting is...
Oh, sorry, I defined it earlier on. It's voting straight down the ballot paper (or, if you're feeling inventive, straight up the ballot paper, or I guess some other pattern) as a substitute for voting an actual preference. (It can happen, of course, that voting straight down the paper is your actual preference, which is not a donkey vote, as it would not change were the order on the ballot to be changed.)