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Skriven 2014-05-08 17:37:48 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 14990 av Joe Delahaye (41489.fidonews)
Ärende: Right up your, errrr,
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Greetings Joe!

 TR>> Truth be known....I'm not for either party, democrat OR republican.
 TR>> Most times I have to hold my nose and vote for the republican. But I
 TR>> haven't voted for a democrat since Jimmy Carter. In fact...I was a
 TR>> registered democrat then. But Jimmy Carter caused me to change my
 TR>> registration to republican. BTW. I'm not a registered republican
 TR>> anymore, either. I'm an Independent.

 JD> So. like me, you vote for the least offensive candidate? I dont
 JD> understand the registring of political affiliation you guys have
 JD> there.

It is quite easy to understand when you realize that we have more than one
election in any given election year. I.e. if you want to vote for a lib,
you have to register as a lib in a primary election. A primary election is
held when more than 1 candidate is running for the same office. To be able
to run in a national or statewide election, somebody has to win the
nomination to run for that office on election day in their own party.

For instance, we just had a run-off election where two candidates (out of
4 running) got enough votes to be elegible for that office. The trouble
was that only one person can run for that office in their own party and
that person also has to run against the opposing party's candidate in the
general election.

So, David Dewhurst ran against the the other candidate in his party who
won the honors of running against him. I don't remember his name because I
didn't vote for him in the primary and I didn't vote for him in the
run-off, last week. Meanwhile, Dewhurst will run against that lib woman
who had a catheter installed in her bladder sho she could hold up the
procedings in the legislature. She won't get my vote either.

 JD> Here, we do not have to register as anything.  It is nobody's
 JD> business what my thoughts are on the politics of the day, except
 JD> mine, nor is it anyone's business who I voted for, not even the
 JD> candidate who I did voter for.

That holds true here, unless you wish to vote in the primary and runoff
elections. In a primary you're given a choice of which party ballot to
vote (you can't vote liberal and conservative). That doesn't make you a
party member, it just means you preferred to vote liberal or conservative,
that time.  During the fall election, you'll get a ballot with all
candidates for that seat included on it.

 JD>   When asked, by any of the parties, I just answer that I have not
 JD> made up my mind yet, and that my vote is my business.

If you have secret ballots like we do, then nobody will ever know how you
voted, unless you tell them...here, when we had paper ballots, the ballot
was folded and placed in a polling box, by the voter...Today, we have
electronic ballots that you enter a vote with a 'voting pen' and when
you're done, the ballot is electronically added to the ballot box. Neither
the paper nor the electronic ballot is associated with the voter in any
way.

    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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