... actively campaign seek to convince you to not vote for the "wrong candidate." <wink> <wink>

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changed that.

ballot. Look at all the outrageous stuff going on with the GOP. Like a credible report of someone throwing registrations in a dumpster. The GOP is doing all kinds of things to keep Demos from voting.

What, is this actually a hard choice to make?

of the ballot before filling it out, fill the copy out to make my boss happy, make a copy of that for him (so he can't tell it was one I filled out), burn the first copy, and vote the original ballot as I see fit. And that's only if we're talking absentee, where I have both the ballot and access to a copy machine. If I'm voting in person I'd say I didn't have any opportunity to make a copy of the ballot I voted.

really makes me sick to my stomach..

If this is what they're doing this time, what will they try next? Require you to show your voter registration to keep your job, or to apply for one?

Karl Rove's goal was to have a one-party (Republican, of course) state. Maybe the idea is to keep doing this kind of thing until that goal is reached

Now, Citizens United has made it perfectly legal for them to be blatant about it and to threaten their employees with their jobs if they don't vote the way employers want them to.

See this story about it which states that it is now legal (frankly I wasn't aware that it wasn't because so many employers have done it for years):

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/14046/romney_instructed_employers_to_tell_employees_how_to_vote_in_conference_cal

All that said, remember THIS: WHAT YOU DO IN THAT VOTING BOOTH is PRIVATE. Unless your employer demands to see your market ballot and know how you voted -- THEY DON'T KNOW. And that means you vote how YOU want to vote. If your employer asks, tell them what they want to hear and leave it at that. Because there is NO WAY they can find out without going to court to get the record of your vote and I've never heard of anyone doing that.

Around election time there would be a company meeting called at the end of a shift, and the boss would stand up there and tell all us lowly serfs who were too stupid to think for ourselves who we should vote for.

Since we were all Union members and in order to talk politics, just like business or work matters, legally he had to do this on company time, so we were all still on the clock and this meeting was on paid overtime.

We would all put on our Very Serious Faces and politely listen, then ask as many stupid questions as we could because we all knew that the Boss Man loved the sound of his own voice and would talk for hours if given the chance.

This went on for years, but he finally figured it out.

It cost him a ton of dough in paid overtime first, however.

And a shitload of free coffee and donuts.