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11602. Magoseph - 10/9/2004 4:28:08 AM You still have time to find out about them. 11603. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 4:58:03 AM How do you go about finding info on your local candidates? 11604. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 4:58:49 AM Oh and thanks, I caught the last part of the debate. 11605. Magoseph - 10/9/2004 4:59:10 AM Call them.
11606. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 5:21:38 AM It's that simple? I find their numbers where? 11607. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 5:34:37 AM Where do I even find out who is on the ballot? 11608. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 5:47:07 AM The past elections....
I get in that voting booth, and I see local elections questions that I haven't heard about, before. Feels like betting on a horse by name, in some respects.
Do you feel lucky? 11609. Magoseph - 10/9/2004 6:04:31 AM Listen to your local radio station and read your local paper, As for me, yesterday I walked into the local Kerry headquarters and they have all the information on the local candidates; you can also walk into the local Bush headquarters and get their presentation of the local ticket.
It so happens that in a big election like this, both parties have these headquarters all over the place. 11610. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 6:21:44 AM Well tra-la-la, it so happens, I've managed to find offense where none was intended.
The local paper, the local radio station, DUH.
Why did I not think of that! They're not biased, and they present each candidate equally well.
11611. Magoseph - 10/9/2004 1:33:14 PM I believe you're correct in your analysis. The local papers just don't editorialize in the fashion the majors do. They evidently regard the dissemination of information as their prime responsibility. 11612. Ulgine Barrows - 10/9/2004 7:18:00 PM Time for lunch! I think I'll have a tomato salad with basil and mozzarella. 11613. Magoseph - 10/11/2004 1:04:44 PM Hello, everyone. How was your weekend? 11614. neato - 10/11/2004 1:21:41 PM Mine was good. I worked both days- lovely overtime rates at the dear old library. 11615. alistairconnor - 10/11/2004 1:22:12 PM Your score is 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. John Kerry is your man. He may not be perfect in your eyes, but next to the smirking idiot who occupies the White House right now, he looks like Abraham Lincoln.
I probably lost points for answering that Kerry "shares the values of people like the French". Which I happen to think is true, to some extent. And a good thing.
11616. alistairconnor - 10/11/2004 1:23:09 PM Time for lunch! I think I'll have a lousy sandwich from the machine.
And a nice apple from my tree. 11617. neato - 10/11/2004 1:34:26 PM It was Aussie elections on Saturday. I didn't vote (in Australia) (still vote in NZ) for the first time for 20 years. Suddenly disenfranchized, because of an error in 1984 - I enrolled then, voted in all elections, state and federal, until the electoral office realized that I was on the rolls by mistake. 11618. alistairconnor - 10/11/2004 1:54:42 PM ?? You don't have the right to vote in Oz? Why not? 11619. Magoseph - 10/11/2004 2:20:54 PM I would assume it's because she is not an Australian citizen.
11620. neato - 10/11/2004 2:22:26 PM I'm not an Australian citizen. I am a "permanent resident". (Although this is a vague term, and I have no documents to prove it - it is just something I tick on the immigration card each time I enter Australia).
I had been voting since I settled in Oz in 1984 until 2001. I believe that in 1984 there was a cut-off point for NZers who wanted to enroll to vote.(If I had enrolled in 1983 I would still be voting). 20 years later I changed my address for the third time, but this time "they" realized that I enrolled in the few months in 1984 when people enrolled who shouldn't have.
What I find hard to take is the fact that I have voted all these years. And been on a jury.
I suppose I should just bite that bullet and become an Australian citizen 11621. Magoseph - 10/11/2004 2:34:52 PM I waited ten years to become a citizen. When I decided to take the plunge, it was done in a jiffy. I think that for you it will be a cinch too.
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