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struggle4progress

(118,379 posts)
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:32 PM Jun 2012

Wow! About 15, of my county's 200 000 registered voters, early voted yesterday

in the run-off primary! At this rate, we're gonna have an overall turn-out around 0.1%!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Excuses I heard for not voting in the first primary included "I didn't have time" (from somebody who claimed not to know there were multiple early voting sites open every single day for more than two weeks before election day) and "I didn't know where to vote" (from somebody who lived directly across the street from the precinct polling location)

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Wow! About 15, of my county's 200 000 registered voters, early voted yesterday (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2012 OP
We don't have early voting SoutherDem Jun 2012 #1
It's a pretty frickin low rate struggle4progress Jun 2012 #2
Disheartening otohara Jun 2012 #3
Lol! rug Jun 2012 #4

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
1. We don't have early voting
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:38 PM
Jun 2012

I always vote, but if we did have two weeks or a week I honestly don't know which day I would go.
Is one day really that bad of a sign?

struggle4progress

(118,379 posts)
2. It's a pretty frickin low rate
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:57 PM
Jun 2012

First day of early voting in Nov 2010, about 300 ballots had already been cast at one of the six sites when I arrived there around 9AM

Of course, this isn't an election: it's a second primary. But it seems to be gettin no attention whatsoever

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
3. Disheartening
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 09:23 AM
Jun 2012

I remember having to go to polling places and count how many Dems voted in 2002.
Ugh....the turnout was terrible
The Republican senate candidate won.

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