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    Friday, Oct 10, 2008 9:00PM / Standard Entry / current event / Members only
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    I received my absentee ballot in the mail the other day.

    Hasta la vista,... somebody. Or, I sure hope so.




    The deadline to register to vote in the November election is October 18 (in California). Must be at least 18 y.o. by election day.


    Oh, and it's Double-Ten today. Must be a big thing in Taiwan. The SF Double-Ten parade took place last Saturday. I used to participate in it through my Chinese school. Baton girl! Back then, the parade took place at 6:00 p.m. These days the parade begins at 11:00 a.m.

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  • oki182
    oki182 
    posted on Monday, Oct 13, 2008 6:36AM [Report]
    I can't vote... so I never got to see a ballot.   Interesting....
  • Etchy
    Etchy 
    posted on Sunday, Oct 12, 2008 10:29PM [Report]
    alan keyes has a shot!
  • Jaine
    Jaine 
    posted on Sunday, Oct 12, 2008 2:24AM [Report]
    yes voting is a basic human right and one so many people don't take advantage of, go fig?

    Why is the day called double ten?  (I know it is the national day for ROC but just wonder about the name, wiki doesn't go that far)
  • JoanneSanderson
    JoanneSanderson 
    posted on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 5:36PM [Report]
    I honestly didn't know about Double-Ten, that's been quite interesting for me to learn this morning, google's a modern-man's encyclopedia.

    It's a lot like the vote in the UK, where the Conservatives and Labour are the only ones we notice, I hadn't even heard of the other names on this ballot! Shameful of me.
  • unwoundclock
    unwoundclock 
    posted on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 10:23AM [Report]
    i registered 3 times.. yah i want to vote that bad.. ive been wanting to ever since 5th grade.. trying to beat that stats of how young people are the least likely to vote lol
  • jaymee
    jaymee 
    posted on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 2:22AM [Report]
    ooo double 10. imagine the mountain of ppl. :S
  • Wildorchid
    Wildorchid 
    posted on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 1:28AM [Report]
    wat's double 10?  is it ur 1st time voting?  or u hv 2 re-register on every elections..
  • janechu
    janechu 
    posted on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 12:24AM [Report]
    oh yea... everything is earlier now. haha...
  • butter
    butter 
    posted on Friday, Oct 10, 2008 10:22PM [Report]
    You bet I'll be voting.  I'm counting the days until that current chump is out of office.

    Yay for Double-Ten.  Celebrate Taiwan.  I hate when they call it Chinese Taipei.
  • ivylam
    Official artist Ivy Lam 
    posted on Friday, Oct 10, 2008 9:52PM [Report]
    I just mailed my absentee ballot from overseas... :)
  • Flagday
    Flagday 
    posted on Friday, Oct 10, 2008 9:27PM [Report]
    You're lucky in California.  A lot more days to register.  Here in Pennsylvania the last day to register was this past Monday, a little less than a month to election day.  But there was a real surge in registrations.  

    Lots of issues though, in a lot of states, about voting machines, voting rolls, what you can wear to the polls, all kinds of BS designed to disenfranchise people.  That makes me mad.  

    Like they say in Chicago, vote early and vote often!  j/k
  • justicevancho
    Official artist Justice Vancho 
    posted on Friday, Oct 10, 2008 9:21PM [Report]
    Noooo not Arnold...I actually like him hehe.

    PALIN '08!
  • Dreamy
    Dreamy 
    posted on Friday, Oct 10, 2008 9:06PM [Report]
    oh yea double 10 day.........
    i don't think we have a celebration here in nyc...

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