How the hell does that work? They don't keep a record of your previous vote, so you walk in and say "Hello, I would like to vote again, please discount my previous Obama vote in favour of my McCain vote now" - even though you voted McCain before, meaning you get your previous McCain vote, your current McCain vote, AND you remove one vote from Obama. It's a three-fer!
When you make an early vote, you first place your ballot in a standard voting envelope. This, together with your voting card (sent out by mail to all people on the electoral roll in advance), goes in another envelope, meant for postal voting, advance voting, messenger voting et c.
On election day, this package goes to your local polling place (you can do absentee voting on voting day as well, in which case your vote gets counted a few days later). After the polling place closes, the staff opens the box with advance votes, opening the outer envelope and checking the voting card with the electoral roll, make the note on the roll that the person has voted and places the voting envelope in the ballot box.
However, you can go to your local polling place on voting day, without your voting card, as long as you have a valid ID (or is known to the staff). They will note that you voted, and then simply put your earlier vote in the paper shredder (or similar).
It's quite common for elderly people here to vote early, on the first day, just so that if they die before voting day, their vote will still count. They still go and vote on the regular day, however, since it's the proper thing to do.
I've wondered that since around the same time, too. At first I thought it was a long-term strategy by the entire GOP to throw this one, let the Dems suffer through (and thus take the fall for) the economic shitstorm that's hitting, and then come back as the knight-in-shining-armour, why-did-you-ever-leave-us, we're-the-fiscal-conservatives-no-really party in 2012.
But judging by the genuine apoplexy of many big-name republicans at the way the campaign is being run, either it's solely McCain's idea, the top players are playing their cards close to their chest, or (hilariously) they're actually trying to win.
actually, if you get in your driver's seat and put the keys in the ignition, even if you don't turn it on -even if you're just listening to the radio while waiting for your cab- if you're over the legal limit, they can arrest you. You are technically operating that motor vehicle if you're in the driver's seat and the keys are in it.
Ok, so it's not arresting a guy in a bar, but they DO arrest people because they MIGHT commit a DUI.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:40 pm (UTC)And to coin a phrase - this campaign has certainly jumped the Empire State Shark.
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:00 pm (UTC)(For once, I wish I had that panicked-people-running-around with ONOES! OMG! icon.)
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:43 pm (UTC)*shakes head* Kicking their own supporters out of the rally because of how they looked... they're basically throwing people at Obama.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:50 pm (UTC)Therefore, they have no use to the McCain camp at this time.
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-10-30 08:32 pm (UTC)When you make an early vote, you first place your ballot in a standard voting envelope. This, together with your voting card (sent out by mail to all people on the electoral roll in advance), goes in another envelope, meant for postal voting, advance voting, messenger voting et c.
On election day, this package goes to your local polling place (you can do absentee voting on voting day as well, in which case your vote gets counted a few days later). After the polling place closes, the staff opens the box with advance votes, opening the outer envelope and checking the voting card with the electoral roll, make the note on the roll that the person has voted and places the voting envelope in the ballot box.
However, you can go to your local polling place on voting day, without your voting card, as long as you have a valid ID (or is known to the staff). They will note that you voted, and then simply put your earlier vote in the paper shredder (or similar).
It's quite common for elderly people here to vote early, on the first day, just so that if they die before voting day, their vote will still count. They still go and vote on the regular day, however, since it's the proper thing to do.
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Date: 2008-10-30 09:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:22 pm (UTC)But judging by the genuine apoplexy of many big-name republicans at the way the campaign is being run, either it's solely McCain's idea, the top players are playing their cards close to their chest, or (hilariously) they're actually trying to win.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:54 pm (UTC)That's like arresting a guy in a bar because he *might* commit a DUI.
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:26 pm (UTC)Ok, so it's not arresting a guy in a bar, but they DO arrest people because they MIGHT commit a DUI.
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Date: 2008-10-30 11:47 am (UTC)Now you know what the guy you just voted for really thinks of you.