Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Voting in November
1 view
Skip to first unread message
?...@qmail.not
Jul 25, 2012, 7:13:12 AM7/25/12
to
[July 2012]
ATTENTION! TO EVERYONE THAT'S VOTING IN THE NOVEMBER 2012 ELECTION!!
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO VOTE A "STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN
TICKET" THIS NOVEMBER, BE SURE TO "PUNCH PRESIDENT OBAMA's NAME OR
GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S NAME "FIRST" ON THE CARD, THEN PROCEED TO PUNCH
"STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN TICKET"! IF YOU DON'T PUNCH
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S OR GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S NAME FIRST ON THE TICKET, YOUR
VOTE WILL BE VOIDED!!!!
PLEASE PASS THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON TO ALL YOUR E-MAIL FRIENDS
AND FAMILIES. I'M SURE THIS INFORMATION WILL NOT BE TOLD TO YOU AT THE
POLLS THIS COMING NOVEMBER!!!!!!
GOD BLESS!
This was first encountered this warning about straight ticket voting a
few months before the 2008 presidential election, and it reappeared in
July 2012 in anticipation of that year's presidential election. The
warning does have some merit to it, but it only applies to residents
of a single state (North Carolina).
As the Charlotte Observer cautioned readers back in 2008
Imagine you are a first time voter with a desire to vote straight
party - to vote for all the candidates of a particular party. If you
look at the official ballot that all [North Carolina] counties are set
to use on Nov. 4, you'll find the following sentence: "A Straight
Party vote is a vote for all candidates of that party in partisan
offices. Individual partisan office selections are not necessary if
you select a Straight Party below."
If you followed those directions, filled in the Democratic or
Republican oval in the Straight Party Voting section and then left,
you might think you'd just voted for president.
But you would be wrong.
On North Carolina's ballot, the presidential contest is not included
in the list of "Partisan Offices." In order to cast a vote for
president and a straight party vote, you need to make two marks - one
in the presidential contest and the other in the straight party
section. (And a straight-ticket vote does not cast a vote in judicial
races, because those are nonpartisan.)
A state law passed in 1967 prohibits the combination of the vote for
the president with any other office on the ballot.
ATTENTION! TO EVERYONE THAT'S VOTING IN THE NOVEMBER 2012 ELECTION!!
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO VOTE A "STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN
TICKET" THIS NOVEMBER, BE SURE TO "PUNCH PRESIDENT OBAMA's NAME OR
GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S NAME "FIRST" ON THE CARD, THEN PROCEED TO PUNCH
"STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN TICKET"! IF YOU DON'T PUNCH
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S OR GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S NAME FIRST ON THE TICKET, YOUR
VOTE WILL BE VOIDED!!!!
PLEASE PASS THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON TO ALL YOUR E-MAIL FRIENDS
AND FAMILIES. I'M SURE THIS INFORMATION WILL NOT BE TOLD TO YOU AT THE
POLLS THIS COMING NOVEMBER!!!!!!
GOD BLESS!
This was first encountered this warning about straight ticket voting a
few months before the 2008 presidential election, and it reappeared in
July 2012 in anticipation of that year's presidential election. The
warning does have some merit to it, but it only applies to residents
of a single state (North Carolina).
As the Charlotte Observer cautioned readers back in 2008
Imagine you are a first time voter with a desire to vote straight
party - to vote for all the candidates of a particular party. If you
look at the official ballot that all [North Carolina] counties are set
to use on Nov. 4, you'll find the following sentence: "A Straight
Party vote is a vote for all candidates of that party in partisan
offices. Individual partisan office selections are not necessary if
you select a Straight Party below."
If you followed those directions, filled in the Democratic or
Republican oval in the Straight Party Voting section and then left,
you might think you'd just voted for president.
But you would be wrong.
On North Carolina's ballot, the presidential contest is not included
in the list of "Partisan Offices." In order to cast a vote for
president and a straight party vote, you need to make two marks - one
in the presidential contest and the other in the straight party
section. (And a straight-ticket vote does not cast a vote in judicial
races, because those are nonpartisan.)
A state law passed in 1967 prohibits the combination of the vote for
the president with any other office on the ballot.
Wo Tan
Jul 25, 2012, 11:23:19 AM7/25/12
to
On 7/25/2012 5:13 AM, ?@qmail.not wrote:
> On North Carolina's ballot, the presidential contest is not included
Well then why don't you keep your idiotic Dem spam confined to the North
> On North Carolina's ballot, the presidential contest is not included
Carolina group, you scumsucking libitard shill?
?...@qmail.not
Jul 25, 2012, 11:09:52 PM7/25/12
to
right, you have no brain so you can't.
Wo Tan
Jul 26, 2012, 2:32:22 PM7/26/12
to
?...@qmail.not
Jul 27, 2012, 7:57:07 AM7/27/12
to
Unknown
Jul 27, 2012, 11:32:23 AM7/27/12
to
> What no four letter word, Sam?
It's rude not to call Jeff Casto by his real name.
Wo Tan
Jul 27, 2012, 12:47:56 PM7/27/12
to
On 7/27/2012 9:32 AM, Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>> What no four letter word, Sam?
>
> It's rude not to call Jeff Casto by his real name.
>
>
Have you dropped by to see Lord Valve for a lemonade, coward?
>> What no four letter word, Sam?
>
> It's rude not to call Jeff Casto by his real name.
>
>
Wo Tan
Jul 27, 2012, 12:48:18 PM7/27/12
to
?...@qmail.not
Jul 28, 2012, 2:50:22 PM7/28/12
to
the time you leave Kindergarten, you are left behind until you do.
Are you the permanent janitor, the one who never left?
?...@qmail.not
Jul 28, 2012, 2:57:52 PM7/28/12
to
especially a weak assembly of letters to form the junk in your mind?
Wo Tan
Jul 28, 2012, 3:04:58 PM7/28/12
to
On 7/28/2012 12:50 PM, ?@qmail.not wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:47:56 -0600, Wo Tan<w...@in.valid> wrote:
>
>> On 7/27/2012 9:32 AM, Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>>>> What no four letter word, Sam?
>>>
>>> It's rude not to call Jeff Casto by his real name.
>>>
>>>
>> Have you dropped by to see Lord Valve for a lemonade, coward?
>>
> In my country if
And which "country" is that?
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:47:56 -0600, Wo Tan<w...@in.valid> wrote:
>
>> On 7/27/2012 9:32 AM, Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>>>> What no four letter word, Sam?
>>>
>>> It's rude not to call Jeff Casto by his real name.
>>>
>>>
>> Have you dropped by to see Lord Valve for a lemonade, coward?
>>
> In my country if
Wo Tan
Jul 28, 2012, 3:05:29 PM7/28/12
to
?...@qmail.not
Jul 29, 2012, 12:19:37 AM7/29/12
to
Wo Tan
Jul 29, 2012, 12:39:03 PM7/29/12
to
?...@qmail.not
Jul 30, 2012, 7:52:57 AM7/30/12
to
0 new messages