Sample Ballot? Am I getting shafted? - Freeze-Frame Radio

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Sample Ballot? Am I getting shafted?

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

We saw info on the sample ballots online.

Here is something on Indiana: Sample ballot

If that isn't right, we found ours when we went to the site to check to see if we were registered to vote. We knew we were but wanted to make sure the system had it right.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Thanks Woo!!

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

You're welcome! smile

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Our local paper usually has a sample ballot in it about two weeks before each election.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Don't believe I have ever had one. I did get a notice in the mail that we are now eligible for the "early" vote now.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

We always get a sample ballot in our newspaper a few weeks before any election and we are allowed to take it to the booth and use it while we vote. I've never heard of not being allowed to use a piece of paper that has your choices wrote on it as an aid while you're voting. I think I would check into that with your city clerk's office and find out why they forbid it. What they're doing doesn't sound legal to me.

-- Edited by ghostdancer at 13:05, 2008-10-10

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I've never been questioned about what I'm taking into the voting booth with me.

I don't think I would take kindly to it if I was.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

You know, I've heard that if they find out or assume you're democrat that people tend to be given a hard time around here at the polls. There's been a big controversy about it. Things like making up reasons that people couldn't vote. But at the same time, there's a good bunch of radical democrats at IU, and they always seem to be victimized one way or another if you talk to them, so I doubted it.

I'm also an independent and refuse to pick a party. But this year, I did vote in the democratic primary, mostly because John McCain had already basically won the republican ticket.

So I wasn't told I had to put my paper way until after I had to declare a party. Hm, maybe there is something to that after all.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Mz, I bet if you contacted both the Republican and Democratic headquarters in your area and told them that you aren't allowed to take a piece of paper into the voting booth with you, they would raise all kinds of heck about it and put an end to what they're doing. I still say this sounds highly illegal; nowhere does it state that you cannot take materials (voting aids) into the booth with you when you vote. I would really press the issue.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Well, that was the primaries, so it's not really worth fighting about now. But trust me, next time, I'm raising heck if it happens again.

Ruby · The Good Witch Of The South

MZ you might just want to put the paper in your pocket and pull it out when you vote. At least you can vote more responsibly. I have never received a sample ballot, but our paper has been running a story everyday on a different race, with lots of information on the candidates. It has been nice. There are lots of people that I might not have voted for had I not read the articles, I too plan on taking a note with me, too much to remember!

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

go to your local voting place and ask for an absentee ballot.