Ride your bike to the Polls

[Maggie]

I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
suck.
Peace and Stuff

''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
nudity.''

 

[the black rose]

Maggie wrote:
> I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
> 6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
> place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
> President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
> suck.
> Peace and Stuff
>
> ''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
> nudity.''

Local club here is doing an election day ride -- they're
getting together and riding to everybody's polling places.
I live two blocks from my polling place, and I'm not free
for rides on Tuesday mornings (gotta be up at the college at
11am), so I just walked over early this morning.

Looked like a good turnout. Better than 2000, anyway.

-km

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[Jeff Starr]

On 2 Nov 2004 05:30:29 -0800, [email protected] (Maggie)
wrote:


>
>''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
>nudity.''

That is a strange analogy. And doesn't really make a lot of sense.

At this point, I would be really surprised, if this election is
settled by morning. I hope so, but I doubt it.

Vote early and vote often;-)

I'm with Sheldon, I'll be voting for John Kerry, and you all should
vote for him too.


Life is Good!
Jeff

 

[AustinMN]

Maggie wrote:
> I just hope we have a
> President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
> suck.

Last year...I think it was four years ago. And it was brought on by a
democrat.

 

[Diablo Scott]

Rode my bike about a half mile to the booth at 7am. There was another
cyclist there too and they let us park our bikes inside (a church gym).
I suspect we were both Kerry voters. Also, I like to put those (I
VOTED) stickers on my helmet; one of them says "YA VOTÉ"

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[[email protected]]

After stopping at the neighborhood coffeeshop and filling my thermos, I
rode my bike to the poll and completely bypassed the gridlock in the
middle school parking lot. I rode right up to the doors, rolled the
bike inside, leaned it against the wall in the hallway, waited in line
for two hours, voted for W and various other candidates and measures,
and got into work at 10:00 a.m.

I saw two other commuting cyclists on the road, but I didn't see any
other cyclists at the polling location. Saw plenty of Kerry bumper
stickers on large SUVs and got *that close* to being right-hooked this
morning by a young woman driving a Saab sporting "Defeat Bush" bumpers
stickers.

RFM in Boulder County, CO

 

[Dane Jackson]

the black rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Looked like a good turnout. Better than 2000, anyway.

My polling place is on the way to work, only about a block out of the
way. The turnout wasn't fab, I was voter ~100 at about 8:30. Granted
it was peeing down rain this morning, but it's Seattle, you think
people would be used to it.

--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
"I can't see a conspicuous evolutionary advantage in being good at
higher mathematics. " -- James Riden in the Monastery

 

[dgk]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:52:28 GMT, Little Meow <[email protected]> wrote:

>Maggie wrote:
>
>> I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
>> 6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
>> place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
>> President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
>> suck.
>> Peace and Stuff
>>
>> ''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
>> nudity.''
>>
>
>I rode my bike out 5 minutes before poll opening.
>For all offices, I wrote in "Little Meow".
>It's a good thing I brought a sharpie, because
>ball point doesn't write too well on the Diebold
>screen.

Glass etchers.

 

[dgk]

On 2 Nov 2004 05:30:29 -0800, [email protected] (Maggie)
wrote:

>I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
>6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
>place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
>President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
>suck.
>Peace and Stuff
>
>''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
>nudity.''

Rode to the poll, and then on to work. Voted for Kerry. No proposals
or propositions or anything so it should go real fast. I was number 5.

 

[Beverly]

"Maggie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
> 6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
> place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
> President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
> suck.
> Peace and Stuff
>
> ''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
> nudity.''

I'll be voting after work so it will be dark and I won't be riding the bike.
I'm just hoping we don't have too much of a mess at the polls. There will
be people challenging votes at some Ohio voting locations today. After a
tough day of working on production problems at work I don't want people in
my face at the polls tonight!

Beverly - who just has a feeling this is going to be worse than the last
election

 

[Cheto]

"Beverly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> Beverly - who just has a feeling this is going to be worse than the last
> election

Only if Bush or Kerry wins.

http://badnarik.org/

Cheto

 

[Claire Petersky]

"Dane Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> the black rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Looked like a good turnout. Better than 2000, anyway.
>
> My polling place is on the way to work, only about a block out of the
> way. The turnout wasn't fab, I was voter ~100 at about 8:30. Granted
> it was peeing down rain this morning, but it's Seattle, you think
> people would be used to it.

Here, I've never seen so many cars at our local polling place. I just spent
the morning on GOTV activities; I'm on break now, and then will resume in
about half an hour. I've come home to take a hot shower and change my
clothes -- my feet were completely soaked through due to the rain, and I had
to wring out my pony tail at lunch, it was so wet. After I warm up and dry
out, I'll be back on the street.

They're predicting ~85% turn out for the county, Dane. You probably just
have a neighborhood that votes after work, as opposed to before.


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[gooserider]

I rode to the polls at 7AM. Line was out the door and into the parking lot.
Of course, I was the only cyclist.... :-(

 

[Zoot Katz]

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:19:04 -0800,
<1099415944.K4RShDB2pSA8ZnmMr4RZ2A@teranews>, Diablo Scott
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Rode my bike about a half mile to the booth at 7am. There was another
>cyclist there too and they let us park our bikes inside (a church gym).

Last time I voted there as one other cyclist arriving at the polls
too. We parked outside locking to a fence were we exchanged comments
on how discouragingly stupid it is to not provide bike racks at a
primary school.
--
zk

 

[Matt O'Toole]

gooserider wrote:

> I rode to the polls at 7AM. Line was out the door and into the
> parking lot. Of course, I was the only cyclist.... :-(

I rode, 3 PM-ish, to the library, where there were 3-4 other cyclists. It was a
very nice day, so anyone able to be away from work during the day was making the
most of it. There were no lines, just a steady stream. I heard on the radio
that local turnout was supposed to be about 50%. This is a college town, and
college students mostly don't vote, despite the constant political bickering of
a vocal few.

Matt O.

 

[Rich Clark]

"Maggie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
> 6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
> place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
> President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
> suck.


I was Voter #141 at about 8AM, an hour into polling. As usual, I stopped in
to vote on my ride in to work, and we all had the usual laugh about how
nobody can peek over my shoulder while I vote because I'd see them in my
eyeglass mirror.

My wife voted on her way home, at about 7PM, and was #830. There are only
about 1000 registered voters in our borough. That's something, I think.

RichC

 

[David Reuteler]

Maggie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope every American Citizen remembers to vote today. I voted at
> 6:00 a.m. with my family. I didn't ride my bike because the polling
> place is around the corner from our home. I just hope we have a
> President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really
> suck.

i rode my bike to vote before work this morning. it was kinda neat ..
i voted at an elementary school and parked my bike amongst ca. 20 bmxs and
other assorted kid's bikes.

i gotta kick out of that.
--
david reuteler
[email protected]

 

[Maggie]

"AustinMN" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Maggie wrote:
> > I just hope we have a President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat of last year will really suck.
>
> Last year...I think it was four years ago. And it was brought on by a
> democrat.

Ok 4 years ago........Gosh republicans are so anal. I made a mistake.
A mistake. Liberal Democrats sometimes make mistakes. Rarely but
sometimes. ;-)
Peace my friend.

 

[Maggie]

Jeff Starr <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 2 Nov 2004 05:30:29 -0800, [email protected] (Maggie)
> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >''Election coverage without results is like pornography without
> >nudity.''
>
> That is a strange analogy. And doesn't really make a lot of sense.
>
Its from a book of quotations....I thought the analogy was
appropriate. Do you want to watch election coverage and not see any
results.....I know people who look at pornography want to see nudity.
Not that I look at **** of course. I am a 50 year old wife and mother
who lives in the suburbs. I have no idea what **** is all about. ;-)
I come from a sheltered environment.
Peace

 

[B i l l S o r n s o n]

Maggie wrote:
> "AustinMN" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
>> Maggie wrote:
>>> I just hope we have a President when I wake up tomorrow. A repeat
>>> of last year will really suck.
>>
>> Last year...I think it was four years ago. And it was brought on by
>> a democrat.
>
> Ok 4 years ago........Gosh republicans are so anal. I made a mistake.
> A mistake. Liberal Democrats sometimes make mistakes. Rarely but
> sometimes. ;-)

Like running John Kerry for Prez!

Bill "just heard he's conceding OH; done deal" S.