Apolyton Votes!

[Winston]

Ah, I feel a little better now.

Roughly how many candidates did you vote for, and how many could you have voted for? We don't have nearly as many elected seats to vote for here; Parliament, regional, municipal and European Parliament, one seat for each, and that's it. That's four, 5 if you include the local church council, provided you're a church member.

General referendums are rare as well, and usually non-binding, just advisory to the lawmakers.

[Donegeal]

Hmm... let me see...

Governor: Dem
Senate: Dem
House: Rep
Sec of State: Rep
State Treasurer: Rep
Sheriff: Rep
State Legislator: Rep
State Senate: Rep
Add amenment to State constution defining Marriage as one man and one woman: No
Allow death penalty in cases of murder where the conviction is supported by DNA evidence: Yes
Local referrendum for $70 million for school renovations: Yes.

There were about 3 or 4 others that only had one person running. I don't vote in those.

[Winston]

That's quite a package, and much more direct than what we have here. Plus our elections are held only every 4 years for local, regional and Parliament (Parliament can be called early), 5 years for the EU Parliament.

So compared to that, the U.S. is also the land of plenty of voting.

Your death penalty referendum has stirred a lot of commentary on some of the sites I visit. From what I've gathered, it should be in the bag, comfortably.

[Ninot]

I want to become an American citizen and move to a county where I have to vote for Dog Catcher.

That's my dream.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by bipolarbear
Why did you not include an 'Other' option for the Overall categories?

Because the intention of the "overall" categories is to gauge what people would like to see happen in this election. I know that if I add "Other" here, it will win, and it isn't a realistic outcome. Ultimately I wouldn't gain much information.

[DaShi]

I voted for the idiot.

[Donegeal]

Of the 3 referendums, thats the one I care least about. Its so restrictive that I would bet there would only be about 2-5 cases a year AT THE MOST that would even be eligiable. And of those I would bet that only 1-2 would get it.

The other two are FAR more important to me.

The local one about the schools is because my girls will someday be going to the schools they are fixing (they are so overcrowed that High School gym is being held in the hallways...).

The other one for two reasons.
1) No amenment is needed. It is already required to be one of each sex to even receive a marriage application, much less get it approved.
2) I happen to be a STRONG believer in equal rights. If a guy and a girl want to get hitched and be eligable for certian benefits, why should we restrict it to ONLY a guy and a girl?

I happen to know a gay couple. They actually went through with having a wedding and the whole deal. Their marriage will last. Actually, the biggest threat to their marriage right now is discrimitory crap like this amenment. All they really want to do right now is to have a child. But they can't afford it right now because one is covered under her insurance (she's a co-worker of mine), but her wife isn't because the law refuses to recignize their marriage. Its a load of **** and all it does is piss me off. ****ers.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Ninot
I want to become an American citizen and move to a county where I have to vote for Dog Catcher.

That's my dream.

Oh yeah, I forgot one. County Corenor. Why the hell that's an elected position I don't know, but I voted repug.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Winston
That's quite a package, and much more direct than what we have here. Plus our elections are held only every 4 years for local, regional and Parliament (Parliament can be called early), 5 years for the EU Parliament.

So compared to that, the U.S. is also the land of plenty of voting.

You'll love my options:

Governor
Comptroller
Attorney General
US Senator
US Representative
State Senator
House of Delegates
County Executive
County Council At-Large
County Council District 3
Judge, Circuit Court
Judge, Court of Appeals
Judge, Court of Special Appeals At-Large
Judge, Court of Special Appeals Appellate Circuit 7
State's Attorney
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Register of Wills
Sheriff
Board of Education At-Large
Board of Education District 1
Board of Education District 3
Board of Education District 5

Ballot Measures:

State Constitutional Amendment on how to divide up park lands
State Constitutional Amendment about circuit court in banc decisions (no idea what this is)
State Constitutional Amendment on increasing the threshold for a jury trial in civil cases to $10,000 (instead of $5k)
State Constitutional Amendment on early voting and other election law revisions

County Charter Amendment to specify councilmembers are full time
County Charter Amendment to specify when the council must send legislation to the county executive to be signed

[Imran Siddiqui]

In my area we are voting on this year:

Governor
Lietentant Governor
Secretary of State
Attorney General
Commissioner of Agriculture
Commissioner of Insurance
State School Superintendent
Commissioner of Labor
Public Service Commissioner
US House Representative
State Senator
State Representative
Fulton County Commissioner
Supreme Court of Georgia Justice (2 of them)

3 Constitutional Amendments
and like 6-7 Tax Referenda

I plan on voting after work, and have a cheat sheet (voting mostly Democrat with a few Libertarians and Republicans thrown in) .

[Jon Miller]

I think I could probably vote in MD, but that it would be illegal for me to do so. So I am currently thinking I won't.. (I currently reside in VA, I registered to vote in MD a few years ago, I haven't changed my registration).

JM

[Winston]

Wow, those lists are enough to get your average Eurocom dizzy. And me too.

Originally posted by Donegeal
Oh yeah, I forgot one. County Corenor. Why the hell that's an elected position I don't know, but I voted repug.

I would think that most of the Liberals here would actually agree with that particular vote. Best man for the job, obviously!

[Arrian]

I'm going to vote after work. I will vote Democrat for Senate. I don't think my House district is up for election. I will likely vote Dem for governor, but frankly I'm not 100% on that yet. Jodi Rell hasn't done anything in particular to piss me off, at least that I know of ( ). As for the others, I'll probably mix 'n match a bit, leaning Dem because I'm currently very angry with the Republicans and have only a very limited ability to punish them. Any 3rd party types that aren't completely insane (libertarians, greens - basically just don't be a nazi and I'll throw ya a bone) outside of the Senate and Governor races will get my vote. If there is a race with both Lib and Green... probably Lib, 'cause CT is fairly lefty in general.

Not that all of that matters much, but one tries.

edit: Rell's gonna win anyway. She's up ~20pts in the polls. I don't take polls as gospel, but a 20 point gap is unlikely to be noise.

-Arrian

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Arrian
I don't think my House district is up for election.

every House district is up for election. Is yours uncontested maybe?

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Arrian
I don't think my House district is up for election.

Uhhhhhh, every house district is up for election every single election.

Welcome to 7th grade civics.


edit: damn, I got beat.... by a Canadian!