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Re: Fear and Voting at the Church (4.00 / 3)

By "local election" do you mean at county/city, state level or something else? The details of US voting confuse me.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 7th, 2007 at 08:13:00 AM EST

Re: Fear and Voting at the Church (4.00 / 3)

The details vary from state to state, but here they call them general elections, and they involve city, county, and state initiatives as well as certain local offices like port commission and city council seats, etc. They also take proposals from the state legislature and vote on whether we need to put it to a vote in the next election.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 7th, 2007 at 08:18:26 AM EST
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Re: Fear and Voting at the Church (none / 1)

There are usually elections somewhere every year. Local elections refer to municipal & state elections. Different states and counties and towns etc. have elections different years. So not everyone in the US had elections this year. (I did not.)

What Izzy refers to as "general" elections only indicates that it is not the primaries. You're not voting to nominate someone but to elect them.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Wed Nov 7th, 2007 at 11:27:19 AM EST
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Re: Fear and Voting at the Church (none / 1)

All that and more, typically -- from state legislators to the board members of the local drainage district and everything in between. It's all quite nauseating here, because somehow every candidate for every office ran on illegal immigration, even if the office had no say in the issue.

If they're going to do that, officials should at least have the decency to keep our state-run liquor stores open at hours a normal person could meet.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Nov 8th, 2007 at 08:40:32 AM EST
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