'Pray we're coming up on re-election day'

Happy Election Day from our friends in Arcadia.

Please, PLEASE ... can we get through this day without rioting, lying, stealing and generally dismantling the very fabric of our once-happy country? Is that too much to ask?

Comments

[Douglas Arthur]

Hey Jimbo,

your argument is specious at best since it was really decided by the Supreme Court when it came down to it. You know full well what I meant. And what in God's name is so wrong about an organization that looks out for the disenfranchised and tries to make sure that the constitutional liberties of ALL citizens are looked after. This isn't just a country for Republicans, though many of them would like you to believe they are the only ones who love it. So stop with the divisive swill. I know a lot of life long Republicans who are voting Democrat this time because they are as sick as I am about the way this country has gone the last 8 years. And then they have the absolute gall to hold up Sarah Palin as an "intelligent and experienced"candidate?? How stupid do you think we are? seriously?

[Rock Fields]

What the ACLU says every time it is brought up. That it is racist and only used to disenfranchise African-American voters. I think it is a load of crap argument but that is what they use every time to defeat it or lock it up in court.

[Jim]

Mr. Arthur, since the Electoral College decided the 2000 election, the candidate who got the most votes did win the election.

Mr. Fields, requiring a valid ID to vote is a great idea, but I wonder what the ACLU would have to say about that...

[Rock Fields]

Douglas, my vote was stolen in 1992. I had applied for an absentee ballot since I was going to school out of state. When my ballot didn't show, I asked for a second one and was told that I could not since I would then get to vote twice. However, there was a news story that a former sheriff (from the county I was from) received 184 absentee ballots.
Again in 1990, I saw on my voter card that I had voted absentee in a previous election. I loudly said that was not right, as at that time I had never voted absentee. The poll work quietly asked me to just go vote.

[Douglas Arthur]

maybe that would work to a degree. But I still have to sign in before I vote with a signature verification that they have on file. I think though, that the biggest issues we have are not with fraudulent voting, but the fraudulent discounting of votes. fraudulent purging of voter rolls, and dirty tricks like sending out fliers stating that Republicans vote on Tuesday and Democrats vote on Wednesday. That kind of stuff infringes on every American's right to vote. How about those "great" new electronic voting machines that are prone to glitches and don't allow for a paper trail, and therefore no way to validate the count?

[Bassnote]

Amen, Spearsy, amen.

[Rock Fields]

I'm going to go vote later this afternoon. I'm going to take my oldest son with me so he can see me vote.

Douglas, I think that requiring ID to vote would go a long way to stopping the voter fraud (on either side). You have to have an ID to cash a check why don't we have to show ID to vote? You can get an ID only non-drivers license for free in most states. In every country that Jimmy Carter has gone to to monitor the elections there; voter ID was required to stop fraud. Go figure.

[Douglas Arthur]

Unfortunately, as we saw in 2000, Miguel, that doesn't always happen.

[Miguel]

As a foreigner i`ll be watching the result of your elections. I hope everything goes well and vote with conscience respecting who opposes you.

Have a good day and may the best one wins(the one who gets more votes at least).

[Douglas Arthur]

Remember when we used to send Jimmy Carter to other countries to make sure that their elections were on the up and up? I think we need some of that here. But there is no foreign equivalent of Jimmy Carter that I can think of to watch over the integrity of out elections. Anyway...get out and vote! The polls will be busy today, so plan on spending some time there if you live in a big district.

[Marissa]

No, it's not too much to ask. I hope tempers don't fly off the handle and people can remember the WORLD is watching us. Let's be a good example!