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Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - mrbigstuff - 10-31-2008 ![]() Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - Mike Sellers - 10-31-2008 Split ticket. If I don't have a strong Democrat/Republican preference, I'll vote Libertarian. We need a viable third party. Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - mikeylikesit - 10-31-2008 vision63 wrote: Bloomberg, who grew up in Medford, MA - a couple miles from me, is a Dem who could only outflank the NYC machine by running as a Repub. Dick Riordan is a wealthy independent more than a Repub, one who recently stepped out and endorsed Obama. I ran for office as a Dem and later ran a county campaign for a Repub (who won in a solidly Dem county). Use to be in Mass you could go into a booth and indicate one party or another, pull a lever and vote a straight ticket. For anyone wanting to split their vote or in primaries they would provide you with a paper ballot that unfolded like an over size roadmap. After voting you would refold the ballot and deposit it in the box (election workers were forbidden to help or touch that ballot) -- ever refolded a road map? The lines outside were often 3-hours long -- two of those hours directly attributable to peoples inability to to refold a friggen ballot. Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - vision63 - 10-31-2008 mikeylikesit wrote: Bloomberg, who grew up in Medford, MA - a couple miles from me, is a Dem who could only outflank the NYC machine by running as a Repub. Dick Riordan is a wealthy independent more than a Repub, one who recently stepped out and endorsed Obama. I ran for office as a Dem and later ran a county campaign for a Repub (who won in a solidly Dem county). Use to be in Mass you could go into a booth and indicate one party or another, pull a lever and vote a straight ticket. For anyone wanting to split their vote or in primaries they would provide you with a paper ballot that unfolded like an over size roadmap. After voting you would refold the ballot and deposit it in the box (election workers were forbidden to help or touch that ballot) -- ever refolded a road map? The lines outside were often 3-hours long -- two of those hours directly attributable to peoples inability to to refold a friggen ballot. That's very interesting. Didn't know you had that political a background. Cool. Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - mikeylikesit - 10-31-2008 It was too many years ago to count for anything. Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - DaviDC. - 11-01-2008 I tend to veer from Democrat to the occasional Republican. |