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posted by CitizenU @ 2:48 PM
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13 Comments:
this is a little delayed...
there was some talk about the uninvolvement of independent voters in primary elections....
don't you think that primary elections serve as a great "Big Tent" privelege?
For those that allign themselves with a party, this is their time to shine, independents choose not to have this
btw.. im still waiting for my Clash song Larsen
Hey,
I'm diggin the political talk, but the music so far has been disapointing. Why don't you help out a fellow politician and play my band's music? Download our song "The End" from http://myspace.com/mimeradio
it's gonna appear on the WIT CD later this year.
Vote on,
Mr. Lazar
As far as I can tell, it seems to me that one of the major issues in the 10th is Mark Kirk's voting record. How effective have the Democratic candidates been in making his record known?
precinct 446 got 133 people out of 996 (? close to that) registered. my fellow judges, who always work at precinct 446, said they usually get 75 % turnout...so...wow.
25 were democratic ballots, but that ballot was really pretty boring. not that many choices on it.
we really had no problems with the machines. i think we need to give election judges more time to finish the final organizing "close the polls" procedures before yelling at slow machines.
and for some nonpartisan political socialization (can that happen?): children who came with parents got to play with a ballot-marking pen and the sample ballots. they had fun voting either for abe lincoln, a write-in candidate (themselves), or scribbling. most took it pretty seriously. =)
oh, and that's one of the lake zurich precincts. bean's district, generally heavily republican.
Just got back from Chevy Chase. The voter turnout was fairly disgusting, not to mention voters who have no clue who the candidates are. The technology and just everything that needs to be done after the voting (not to mention the fact that the people working were not the tip of the sword). It was obvious that candidates with money were the ones who the people knew, and voted for.
Just reporting in, and now listening in
Going off of Secler's comment, the one commercial i've been consistently seeing is Mc'Sweeney's family message. Although it lacked meat, could his TV time maybe have been a large factor in his primary?
Must also mention the fact that most voters were VERY reluctant to declare a party, or on countless occassion asked "Where's the Whig ballot". Just see the overall growing dissatisfaction for the politcal party, as they seem to be failing to give many strong candidates.
State wide govnor race with 5% in has Oberweis and Topinka neck and neck at 35%, looks much closer than expected
I remember at the Debate at Stevenson, the only candidate that came up to me and shook my hand was McSweeney, I think he was the only one who was really playing the political game in a strong fashion. I think this deffinatly helped him.
One last general point about elections. I know efficiency is important, but couldn't some of the money going to these slightly problematic voting machines be passed into education, to provide good voters before efficient voters?
on the contrary, i found our voters (the few there were) fairly educated... they were discussing things we talk about in government!
i.e. purpose of primaries, type of turnout, etc.
problem: i think the ELa precinct rep got elected with 13 votes, all write-ins.
well...we had to explain primaries to some people. like the ones who were all hot and bothered over having to pick a party. i think one was swearing. and the many who actually asked for both ballots. ><
and we had a lot who had to look at the specimen ballots because they came in with NO IDEA who was even on which ballot.
to their credit, though, most were fairly elderly, and we were grateful they were there because there were some hours where we only got 2 voters to show up and we were bored. the really nice man next to me was making various bird calls and we were trying to guess which birds they were...
but yeah. not completely well-informed.
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