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11/08/2016 9:59 am  #11


Re: Election Day Diary

Voted absentee a few weeks ago so I didn't have to stand down at the bottom of a long hill for 45 minutes and slowly creep up it as the line moved along.  Very poor an excuse for a voting site.  Typical for Pennsylvania though.  It's a gorgeous day in south central PA this morning so no one can use the weather for an excuse to not go vote.

 

11/08/2016 10:59 am  #12


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My wife went to vote prior to going to work. She got to the polling place about 7:40 a.m. She called me when she finished around 8:15. She said the lines were long at our fire station polling place in Windsor, PA. I went down around 8:45 and there were still about 56 or 60 people in alphabetical lines. The total wait was only about 20 minutes and I had my preferences written down after a final check on ballotpedia.com before leaving home. There was a steady stream of people arriving when I left.

It was nice to see a rather large turnout for our little precinct. Maybe the two major parties have found the secret to boosting the voter turnout -- nominate flawed, unpopular candidates that people don't particularly like. Oh well, like I say, a representative republic requires participation.

I still can't wait for this election to be over. Then I can look forward to 4 more years of obstructionist partisan politics in Washington, D.C. Happy days are here again !

 

11/08/2016 11:41 am  #13


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Waited in line about 20 to 30 minutes in my little slice of heaven in Southern Lancaster County.  Several people said they never saw so many people at our township building on election day.  The lawn was plastered with Trump signs.

Voted for Clinton. 

 

11/08/2016 12:30 pm  #14


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The Republican Governor of Massachusetts announced that, for the first time in his life, he didn't vote for anybody for president.

Donald Trump claimed that Tom Brady voted for him, which caused and instant wave of revulsion in the Bay State.
Gisele Bündchen — wife of NFL superstar Tom Brady — flatly rejected Donald Trump’s assertion that her husband had voted for the GOP nominee.

“NO!” the Brazilian model told an Instagram user who asked if it were true that she and Brady were backing the brash billionaire.

Hey, the polls don't close for hours, so this passes for news up here. 


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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11/08/2016 2:55 pm  #15


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It's already started:

Trump campaign files Nevada lawsuit claiming people were improperly allowed to vote

Jacob Pramuk    | @jacobpramuk 1 Hour Ago
People cast their ballots during voting in the 2016 presidential election in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 8, 2016.
Donald Trump's campaign filed a lawsuit in Nevada on Tuesday claiming a Nevada county improperly kept some polling locations open on the last night of early voting.

The suit, filed in state court, claims people who were not in line when polls closed at some Las Vegas locations were able to vote on Friday. Nevada law allows people already waiting when the polls close to cast ballots.

The suit against Clark County is not aimed at votes cast on Tuesday. This type of lawsuit is not unusual in presidential elections.

Multiple reports have said Nevada, a key battleground state, saw a strong early voter turnout among Latinos, who largely favored Trump's rival Hillary Clinton in most surveys leading up to the election.

Trump and allies have claimed they expect to see voting misconduct on Tuesday, but serious irregularities are historically rare.

A spokesman for the Nevada Republican Party said his group is not a party to the lawsuit, but said it's not that unusual.

"We are hoping for a smooth process today, and so far it looks like that's happening," he said.

A hearing is set for 11 a.m. local time.

— Reporting by NBC News and CNBC's Jane Wells.



I just saw Rudy Giuliani on MSNBC defending this action by saying "thousands and thousands of paid thugs" were sent to Trump rallies to make problems and they were all hired by the Clinton campaign. He also mentioned "the widespread voter fraud", like keeping the polls open so Hispanics could vote in Nevada, and it's due to Harry Reid's old school political shenanigans, and lastly mentioned how Al Gore set the precedent for contesting elections. It was almost like Rudy & the Trump campaign have already seen the writing on the wall from early on the ground reporting, and are gearing up for their big rigged voting post election campaign.

 

11/08/2016 3:21 pm  #16


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Man, those Trump poll watchers sure are keeping a close eye on immigrants to watch for shenanigans!





We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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11/08/2016 3:37 pm  #17


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I wonder what he would have said or done had he realized she was voting for Hilliary. 

 

11/08/2016 3:40 pm  #18


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Jon Ralston, who is known as Nevada's premiere political reporter was in the courtroom and this is what he tweeted out.....


I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
 

11/08/2016 3:44 pm  #19


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Goose wrote:

Man, those Trump poll watchers sure are keeping a close eye on immigrants to watch for shenanigans!




I kid you not.......


I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
 

11/08/2016 4:27 pm  #20


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Just talked to my next door neighbor. He was voter 731 at our polling place. He's lived here for over 10 years and said he's never seen a number over 250. 


I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
 

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