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Ever hear of provisional ballots? Doesn't sound like it.
The more citizens that vote, the better for the country. We should hang our head in shame at the pathetic turn out in previous elections, and even this one is nothing to crow about as far as turnout.
I'm all for a higher turnout of voters but fraud must be carefully guarded against.
Obama took North Carolina, the first Democrat do to so in more than three decades by an unofficial margin of 13,692 votes over John McCain.
Nearly 92,000 new voters registered during the early voting period, which opened after the registration deadline for Election Day voting had passed. And those voters, according to an Associated Press review of registration and exit poll data, were a huge well of support for the Illinois senator.
Without the new law in North Carolina that allows people to register and vote on the same day, McCain would have won North Carolina considering how close it was in the Tarheel State.
I have some questions about the same day registering process. I was in line while folks were doing it and the polling workers were bending over backward and were saying they would accept some items for identification that I would not have accepted like name on utility bill etc.
The only problem that I had this year is some of the younger voters reasons for voting the way they did. My daughters friends all come to my house to hang out. I talked to them about are you voting and for who. Some of the answers for voting for Obama was Macain walks funny-McCain has grey hair and would probley died within a year- my mom told me to vote for him. lol The reason some were voting for Mccain- My dad owns his own business and Obama is going to raise his taxes and I will have to go to Community College instead of Va Tec- Obama is going to make 18 million illegals legal and I will not beable to get a job after college- My bestfiend was killed by a illegal imagrant that got a illegal drivers lic and ran a redlight and killed her and I do not think that illegals should get a drivers Lic.( this one i agree with)
I have some questions about the same day registering process. I was in line while folks were doing it and the polling workers were bending over backward and were saying they would accept some items for identification that I would not have accepted like name on utility bill etc.
A utility bill is a common form of supplemental ID, you have an account, it confirms your address, and it is current, not years old.
Same day registration also means the voter casts a provisional ballot that is not counted until information is verified, and why NC didn't award electoral votes until days after the election. That allows for a speedy process at the polls, which you have interpreted as "bending over backwards". This year over 77,000 provisional ballots were cast, but only 50,000 were counted, meaning 35% were discarded, for various reasons. We have a system of checks and balances, and anything the encourages voters to vote is a good thing.
perhaps the quality of the people. that being said, I assume you all vote for the straight democrat ticket. you probably didn't notice this, but there were lots of people running unopposed for judicial positions in this state. I am also quite embarrassed at the election of bev purdue. munger has a phd in economics from washington university in st. louis. he is also an economics professor at UNC. how in the hell do we elect freaking bev purdue over him? what an embarrassment.
perhaps the quality of the people. that being said, I assume you all vote for the straight democrat ticket. you probably didn't notice this, but there were lots of people running unopposed for judicial positions in this state. I am also quite embarrassed at the election of bev purdue. munger has a phd in economics from washington university in st. louis. he is also an economics professor at UNC. how in the hell do we elect freaking bev purdue over him? what an embarrassment.
See I knew you were smart, you're just on the wrong side!
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