The OaO Election Day (Month?) Thread

[teke184 0]

Hart's Location, New Hampshire appears to be the 15-15-1 hamlet

 

2000: 17-13 Bush

1996: 13-12-4 Dole

1992: 15 for Perot, 9 for Bush, 6 for Clinton

Wonderful indicator there... they've been right on only 1 out of the last 3 elections, including picking dead-last finisher Perot in 1992.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

http://www.thewmurchannel.com/politics/3882084/detail.html

 

Tradition Prevails In Dixville North, Hart's Location Voting

And, Yes, The Decision Is Tied -- At Least In Hart's Location

 

POSTED: 12:24 am EST November 2, 2004

UPDATED: 12:34 am EST November 2, 2004

 

HART'S LOCATION, N.H. -- President Bush and John Kerry each received 15 votes in the nation's initial votes for president just after midnight Tuesday. Ralph Nader received one vote.

 

The first vote came from Hart's Location. The 26 registered voters in Dixville Notch were still were casting votes shortly after midnight.

 

The communities since 1948 sporadically have been taking advantage of a state law that allows communities to close polls early if all registered voters have voted.

 

In 2000, both mountain hamlets chose President Bush over Democrat Al Gore. In Hart's Location, Bush won 17-13. In Dixville Notch, about 50 miles to the north, Bush had 21, Gore five and Ralph Nader one vote.

 

By state law, polls must be open between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. But nothing prevents a town from opening the polls earlier, and closing after all potential voters have cast ballots.

 

Hart's Location began doing just that in 1948 because nearly everyone in town worked for the railroad and many had to be at work before normal voting hours. Dixville followed in 1960.

 

Hart's Location residents traditionally cast their ballots at the Notchland Inn, but this year voting was moved to the new town hall.

 

National media attention to these "first votes" began in 1952, when the state let voters in the state's earliest presidential primary vote for the candidates themselves rather than delegates to the national party conventions. The Republican primary made news that year because Gen. Dwight Eisenhower upset party favorite Robert A. Taft.

 

Small towns including Hart's Location, Millsfield and Waterville Valley soon were competing to cast the nation's first votes. Hart's Location dropped early voting in 1964, only to revive it 1996.

 

Dixville didn't get into the act until 1960 for the general election. Reflecting the state's then-solid Republican leanings, Republican Richard Nixon beat Democrat John Kennedy, 9-0. Kennedy triumphed nationally in one of the closest presidential elections ever.

 

Republicans still have the edge in both towns. Hart's Location has 10 Republicans, 15 independents and six Democrats. Dixville has 13 Republicans, 11 independents and two Democrats.

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

What would promp someone to vote at midnight? I got to question how many of those people are even Sober.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

The article answers all

 

Dixville (13 Republicans, 11 Independents, 2 Democrats) goes 19-7 Bush

 

Hart's Location (10 Republicans, 15 Independents, 6 Democrats) goes 15-15-1

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

CNN is kicking some ass with their election results page:

 

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/

 

IMO.. of course

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Hart's Location, New Hampshire appears to be the 15-15-1 hamlet

 

2000: 17-13 Bush

1996: 13-12-4 Dole

1992: 15 for Perot, 9 for Bush, 6 for Clinton

Wonderful indicator there... they've been right on only 1 out of the last 3 elections, including picking dead-last finisher Perot in 1992.

well.. this does mean that a draw is out of the question

[bob_barron 0]

When I see the results from my county and I'm gonna be all:

 

OMG THAT'S MY VOTE!!!

[Guest MikeSC]

What would promp someone to vote at midnight? I got to question how many of those people are even Sober.

They're not drunk. Just insomniac geezers.

-=Mike

[teke184 0]

When I see the results from my county and I'm gonna be all:

 

OMG THAT'S MY VOTE!!!

By the time that East Baton Rouge Parish's votes are counted, I hope to be seeing triple and finishing off a bottle of Jim Bean.

[bob_barron 0]

When do absentee ballots get counted anyway?

 

I'm so excited- this is the first election I've ever voted in

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

Since I'm in Ohio, I'm hoping one of the Bigwigs (cnn, fox or MsNBC) has their cameras at my Votingbooth. If I see one, I'll do the Orton Pose for my fellow TSMers.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

What would promp someone to vote at midnight? I got to question how many of those people are even Sober.

They're not drunk. Just insomniac geezers.

-=Mike

being up at midnight doesn't make one an insomniac.

 

Part of the reason for voting early is because some people in New Hampshire have this ego about being the first to do things. Which is why they must hate Iowa

[teke184 0]

When do absentee ballots get counted anyway?

 

I'm so excited- this is the first election I've ever voted in

Absentee ballots vary from state to state.

 

Some states don't count them unless the election is within a small margin.

 

Louisiana, AFAIK, counts absentee ballots immediately because the state Commissioner Of Elections is supposed to have them instead of the parish election boards like in Florida. The reason I know this is that the absentee ballots are always the first returns listed within the state and often contain votes for candidates that dropped out of the race a week or so prior to the election.

[bob_barron 0]

Some states don't count them unless the election is within a small margin.

 

That's bullshit. New York better not be one of them

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Some states don't count them unless the election is within a small margin.

 

That's bullshit. New York better not be one of them

You'd think they wouldn't throw out an entire ballot because one race was a blowout.

[Styles 0]

Boy, I'm nervous about tommorow...what if I don't win. I'll be finished. I'll try to get some sleep and not think about it

 

Dreaming...

 

Voiceover: And John Kerry celebrates a resounding electoral victory and will now be making his acceptance speech

 

As my first act as President, I will invite Osama Bin Laden to the Whitehouse to have a summit, so we can finally bring an end to our conflict, and do it without sending troops into a quagmire. My next act will be to eliminate the Department of Defense, replaced by a Department of Sensitivity and Peace to be run by a council of world...

 

Oh man, looks like its back to Texas for me. I guess I'll never know what it would be like to serve a second term as President

 

Quit yer bitchin', jackass.

 

Grover Cleveland? What are you doing here?

[Styles 0]

Exercising my right to vote in Colorado, of course. Anyway, when I lost to that no good son of a bitch Harrison, did I sit around a pout? Hell No! I came back and beat his bitch ass the next time.

 

Wow, that must have taken a lot of courage to do, after losing the electoral vote the first time.

 

Yeah, and I even won the popular vote the first time, but still lost the election! Isn't that some bullshit?!

 

Uhhhh....right...

 

Well, I must bid you farewell, as I step behind this magical curtain, to re-enter the afterlife. I'm late for my hottub date with Eleanor Rooselvelt and her mistress. Toodles

 

Bye bye Grover Cleveland...

[Styles 0]

Grover Cleveland? George, wake the fuck up, it's election day

 

CBS news calls Dixville, New Hamshire, for John Kerry

 

Bush: Grover Cleveland was right Dick...I'll just have to try again next time

Cheney: Boy, I have no idea what you're talking about, but looks like something is up...

 

Yeah, it looks like we got Dixville wrong. This is Dan Rather, CBS News saying America can go fuck themselves

 

 

 

I'm so sorry about all of that. Continue on...

[teke184 0]

Some states don't count them unless the election is within a small margin.

 

That's bullshit. New York better not be one of them

You'd think they wouldn't throw out an entire ballot because one race was a blowout.

Let's just say that there's no standard way to handle this.

 

There have been cases reported by election fraud researcher John Fund in which large piles of absentee ballots went uncounted because election officials said "Fuck it, I'm tired and going home" after counting the votes tallied in the voting booths and calling in their totals.

[NYU 0]

I doubt Bush would have any idea who Grover Cleveland is upon first glance.

 

Other than that, cute.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

I'm going to go to bed, and i'm planning to go vote around 7am CST

[cbacon 0]

Loving the sig, Rob.

 

And yeah, for the love all that is good in this world, go Kerry.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

YES!!! Pictures~! from Slapnuts!

[NoCalMike 0]

Well here we are, it is just about time to cast your vote. No matter who you are voting for, we are all participating in democracy......thanks to all.

 

And to pass the time, watch this.....

 

Pentagon Lies!?!

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Curry for Kerry in 2004.

 

You have no idea how bad G.W make you look. And I know you're not bad. You have things I like, such as Scarlett Johannsen, Samoa Joe and lots of cereals I can't get here in Canada.

 

But get the monkey out. Kerry may suck but at least it's a different kind of suck.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Curry for Kerry in 2004.

 

You have no idea how bad G.W make you look. And I know you're not bad. You have things I like, such as Scarlett Johannsen, Samoa Joe and lots of cereals I can't get here in Canada.

 

But get the monkey out. Kerry may suck but at least it's a different kind of suck.

Like what? Seriously, the worst thing so far about living in the States is I haven't been able to find Vector ANYWHERE.

[cbacon 0]

I don't think we've ever had Cookie Crisp over here.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

List of cereal's that are unknown to be available in Canada:

 

- Cocoa crispies (most cereal to make milk into chocolate milk)

- Corn Pops that are shaped kinda like an almond. The Canadian version is a ball.

- Frankenberry

- Your Cocoa Pebbles are flakes, in Canada they're similar to your Corn Pops

- Cookie Crisp

- Spongebob Squarepants Cereal

- That mini cinnamin bun cereal.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'll trade you some cereal for some perscription drugs.

[tommytomlin 0]

Less than one day till America decides who will lead Australia for the next four years!!

 

I'M SO EXCITED~!