Dedicated people like you will make all the difference in this election.

I'm retired and voted early to reduce the congestion at the polls for these whose schedules are less flexible (like my children).

preaching into my CB mike to vote for Obama.

for using your education and gifts to stand solid for our Democracy on Election
Day.

I will be transporting people to vote in our community .

I am proud of our President without reservation! He has done an incredible job for us
against unfathomable obstacles.

who fought to make sure that I had the chance to go. I am proud to pay back.

Thank you for transporting--it makes a huge difference!!!

Seems like the thing I can do that will help the most.

I will be doing nothing so heroic, just watching the returns on tv. I bow to you sir.

for Election Night.

http://www.familycircle.com/recipes/desserts/cookies/presidential-cookie-recipes/

I am a woman, fyi, which is apparent from my username. Please tell me you didn't presume that I was male because I am a lawyer?

Not on finding out what you do though, but based on past posting history. Ah well, it isn't the first time I was fooled.

Helping people sign in and vote for the candidates of their choice--and doing my part to keep the election fair and friendly. I'll help lost voters find their correct polling place and smile for 15 hours. It's the best way I feel I can help democracy work.

And then I'll come home and watch the results, and (I hope and believe) crack open a bottle of champagne.

Seriously. My older daughter is a Brownie and I will be helping out the Girl Scout election day cookie booth in our town. It helps the Girl Scouts out and that was our scheduled day. I will be doing this after voting with my girls, of course. After school. I will wait to vote then as they want to go with me.

Let us never forget---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

On LGBT rights they are excellent.

And I have been taking my girls with me to vote since 2008, at 3 and 4. I hope it encourages them to stay involved.

In my county you have to submit Poll Watcher names a couple weeks ahead of time tot he Sup of Elections and the local DEM office forgot to put me and a few others on the Early Voting list, so we reminded them again and they forgot to put me on the list for Election Day watchers. They said I can however stand on the side of the road waving signs in traffic....

I tried to protect the vote, but the local office blew it again. Will Rogers was right, I do not belong to an organized party, I'm a Democrat.

So I will be sitting home and not helping. I'd love to help, but I cant stand all day and I wont be able to drive people to the polls in my old truck. I for sure wont be waving signs in traffic.

I'm not bitter, I'm just limited on what I can do and I wasnt taken advantage of and put to use.

I'm almost glad early voting ended here in Texas, I've been shuttling folks to early voting locations since it started- every weekend and some days after work, if I could swing it.

"No, Abuelita, I'm sure your granddaughter is a nice girl, but I'm in a relationship, thanks."

body politic! (The abuelitos, too!)

I've no doubt that at the last minute, I'll be handed a list of names and telephone numbers.

In 2008, I put about 1,200 miles on my wife's car. This year looks to be on pace to reach 1,500. (Of course I've moved since then, lots more rural elderly and poor needing a ride.)

So many that the Attorney General will have his work cut out for him for years. So many that every State will have to take a long hard look at their voting laws and systems.

I'd love to see some 1% along with their minions doing serious time.

I will be going to work and taking peeks at DU while I'm there. I voted a couple of weeks ago here in California.

We will not challenge voters.

Other organizations exist to do that.

However, other shenannigans aren't going to be tolerated. Attempts to interfere with the voting process, attempts to intimidate--that's what we are there for.

Challenges to voters? We will make sure the law is followed.


Thank you for voting!!!

it is illegal on election day for anyone other than election officials to challenge voters. (All voter initiated challenges in Ohio are made in advance, in writing, and decided by the local BOE.)

One of our jobs, however, is to observe (and call for intervention) if the R (or other) observers are suggesting to election officials that certain voters should be challenged.

Obama field office coordinating rides to the polls, and doing anything thing else they may need as the day goes on.

...then I'll probably wait it out with the after work crowd to cast my straight democrat ballot. Then I'll bury my head in the sand until Wednesday morning (on account of my extreme nervousness over the results).

VOTE.

Does your cell phone have a camera???? Take a pic of the line when you get on it, to get the time stamp. Take another picture if you are still there close to closing.

If you have any problems, call 1-866-OUR VOTE!!!! AND DON'T LEAVE THE LINE!!!!

THANK YOU!!!

Do you always respond to every post when you make an OP? I'm just finding it amusing. Ignore me if you think I'm being rude.

I'll keep that in mind, but I swear I will cut in line if I have to. Or jingle my keys until people move it along!


P.S. I was kidding about cutting in line. I know how some people feel about people who cut in line.

P.P.S. Key jingling is fair game.

Voters in line when the poll closes will be given cards that demonstrate they were in line at the poll closing time. The county I am observing used that today for the close of early voting. One of the directors was standing near the line, urging anyone who had friends parking cars to get them in line. She had her phone alarm set for 5:00, and when it rang started handing cards to the voters in line, working her way from the last person to the front of the line. No one not in line when the phone alarm rang was given a card.

And - yesterday someone did leave the line to go shopping, came back after the close, and was turned away. She argued for most of an hour (the time it took for the last voter to vote) but was not allowed to vote.

And working to get out the vote in the western suburbs of Philly!

4 more years!

I'll be working with students in two high schools here in Austin!

Many of them are old enough to vote and think about women's rights.
In one of the schools, students put together a Halloween video with
a news segment and a segment interviewing their peers about the
election. Their liberal views gave me hope!

Is that good enough for you?

That is what I do, I teach. I'm quite good at it, and find it to be more important, and more rewarding than politics.

Madhound. You aren't happy he is helping kids, but want him to work for Obama instead. OH BOY.

not work for the campaign. I am unaware of what state he is in, but I am sad that the public schools are not closed, apparently.

My, you truly seem to be trying to pick a fight with me on this thread!!! Or am I misinterpreting you?

could come across as offensive? I just read it again, and it is not exactly a "rainbows and fluffy clouds" OP. There seems to be an undercurrent of anger and lashing out, especially at the beginning.

If you were offended, then why not say so?

Your OP comes off as pompous and condescending. I have voted in every election since 1974. I don't ignore my civic right.

But, i have to work and i've got meeting from 8 until 10, 11 until noon, 1:30 'til 3, and 3 to 5. So, i'll be there when the polls open.

Sorry i can't be so "involved". Does my $2000 in DNC donations excuse me?

Or does being a good democrat who's still trying to show that dems can be good managers in this business climate no longer suffice?

I wrote this OP in response to this one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021695879


I hope your meetings go well that day.

I will be doing the same thing you are - and have already been doing it since October 2 (to the tune of around 90 yours by the end of election day).

That said, I am less than enthusiastic about Obama, but I am terrified of the alternative. Even though I am doing the same work you are doing, I am certainly put off by being characterized as a purity troll because I have serious reservations about President Obama positions on foreign policy - or the damage his administration has done by continuing the Bush era policies on civil liberties.

And I don't think you are a purity troll. My OP was written in response to this one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021695879

There's a difference bewteen having genuine concerns, and posting an OP like that a few days before an election.


As joshcryer's excellent OP indicates, this is about more than one or two issues, even one or two very important issues:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021705766

see posts #79 and #82

So you are sadly misinformed on what teachers get or do.

public schools are in session for the election.

Please vote.

and we will be making sure every vote counts .

Before taking a nap and then waiting for results

Husband and I got home from the polls at 9:30. We were too tired to go to the after party. Too tired to do anything but collapse on the sofa and fall asleep in front of the TV.

And we woke up to the cheering in Grant Park through the television.

So nap well, because I think you are going to be partying/staying up on behalf of quite a few DUers.

Frankly, I'm not expecting Ohio and Florida to be decided on Election Day.

All in one line.


Hypocrite much?


And no, I won't STFU.

.. I'll vote for Obama in spite of people like you. But what I won't do, is be silenced by them.

... I'm not doing it for you or others like you.

coverage under Obamacare, and who won't face the constant threat of being thrown off her insurance.


So, thank you. And I mean that.

then I'll go to work, then when I get home I'll shower and make something to eat. After that I'll probably relax by working on some craft project or just watch a bit of TV/surf the net.

I have a load of Xmas crafts to catch up on! Wednesday!!!

I'm not waiting on election day to hit, I've been AT this for a while now! Election day will be spent partially in my office serving taxpayers, then I'm hoping to take the afternoon off to drive folks to the polls.

This one is WAY too important to ride the fence. If you are not already making plans to get your ass outta that chair or at least on to a phone for part of the day then SHAME on you!



Laura

Break out a cold bottle of TsingTao or maybe a ice cold can of Asahi.. plant my butt in my big comfy chair, turn on the computer, throw down a plate of pretzels...or popcorn and turn on my big screen monitor. I will type in my browser this website, and sit back and enjoy a nice news day with returns coming in... leading up to the big moment, when President Obama finds himself back in the White House for another four more years. After which, I will probably cry happy tears and toast to four more years of Democratic rule .. oh, and it will be interesting to see John Boehner, Mitch Mcconnell and Eric Cantor crying and pouting, stamping their feet, in a typical Republican manner on Fox News. There will probably be an explosion over at IEB Network as Rush Limbaugh self implodes .. and Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter will melt into a greasy wax residue on their respective floors. Sean Hannity will probably be asked to be waterboarded, and it will probably turn out to be another great day.

hope it goes the same way!!!

the trolls. Thank you in advance!

I'll be working at my local polling place trying to make sure that everyone who comes to vote is able to do so.

I love doing this. It really does make a difference and I love seeing the good people of my community come out in force to vote. In 2008 I was in tears by the time I got home to watch election coverage after seeing many first time voters, and voters of color, casting their ballots, with tears in their eyes.

What you're about to do will make a difference I promise you!

Thank you for your hard work. It all makes a difference.

making calls

a difference not just for the Party, but in people's lives.