Every two years people complain about the low voter turnout for elections which recently has ranged between 49-56%. Well that’s because elections are held on Tuesday! With our economy today, most people aren’t willing to, nor can they afford to take off of work to go vote, even though most would like to.
Why not change the date to a Saturday…maybe the first Saturday of November? That could easily shoot the percentage up to 80-90%. What would need to be done in Washington to make this happen?
Elections were originally set on Tuesday for agricultural reasons. But these days that is hardly an issue with the majority of Americans.
Is there anyone who feels the same as myself? Is there something that can be done to make this happen or do most politicians not want to change this for fear of affecting their chances of election/reelection?
Most law makers are already aware of those issues, thats why in most places voting starts at 6 am and ends at 9 pm, to make sure there is time for everyone.
They came to a conclusion a few years ago, that even if it were held on a saturday the turn out rate would be basically the same, but it would be the opposite type of people voting.
This was a poll done in 30 states.
But, I think changing the day may help, what you need to do is write to your congressmen and have others do the same
This past Wednesday, World Net Daily published a story on the internet, saying a man who was a grad assistant at Western Kentucky University last semester, claims President Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii. That man is Tim Adams who was the Senior Elections Clerk for the city and county of Honolulu during the 2008 presidential election.
But Adams says even though Obama may not have been born in Hawaii, he is still a U.S. citizen.
The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago. The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public. In contrast with the rest of Mr. Obama’s life story, little is known about his college experience. He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to Columbia in 1981. The move receives only a mention in Mr. Obama’s 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” which instead devotes that chapter to his impressions of race and class struggles in New York.
An article in a Columbia University publication, Columbia College Today, reported that Mr. Obama has portrayed Columbia as a period of buckling down following a troubled adolescence. He did not socialize much, he has said, instead spending a lot of time in the library, “like a monk.” He has also stated that he was involved to some extent with the Black Students Organization.
Federal law limits the information that Columbia can release about Mr. Obama’s time there. A spokesman for the university, Brian Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not receive honors, Mr. Connolly said, though specific information on his grades is sealed. A program from the 1983 graduation ceremony lists him as a graduate.
Just curious what would happen if the election is tied in electoral college? What does the constitution say about this?
One candidate has to hit 270 electoral votes. If that doesn’t happen, the election is thrown to the House of Representatives. The supreme court only gets involved if there is a legal dispute over the vote count or some other such thing.
Not that I would want this to happen, but what if McCain or Obama passed away before the November election day, who would take their place for their parties nomination? Would it postpone the election day?
No, it wouldn’t postpone anything. Either the election would go ahead with just one person (and the dead person’s name would be on the ballot and wouldn’t be removed) or the party would be allowed to provide a substitute.
Tim Adams, who was the Chief Elections Clerk in Honolulu during the 2008 Presidential Election, says that Obama was NOT born in Hawaii. Listen to the attached 7-minute audio clip. This was excerpted from the June 5th episode of the Political Cesspool radio show, Part 3 http://libertynewsradio.com/shows/tpc/tpc20100605c.mp3
I live in France and am planning to watch the results of the US election come out live, (I have CNN and CNBC on my TV and want to follow it state by state.) What time will the results start coming out for the east coast states?
I read something about a restriction on calling the results until after polling has closed on the west coast. Does this apply to the networks calling states or just the whole country?
Each state counts its own vote as soon as the polls close. I think the first state to finish voting is Kentucky or Indiana and that’s 5.30pm local time, if my memory serves me correctly. That’s 11.30pm in the UK and 12.30am in France. Within minutes the networks will call the state for one of the candidates or declare the contest too close to call.
Americans finish voting early, particularly compared to the UK. Most states finish at 7pm or 8pm local time, so by 2am in the UK, 3am in France, most states in the Central Time zone have closed their polls and most votes have been cast. California, the largest state by population, is the only major state in the other time zones. If it’s a landslide, the result may well be apparent by 2.30am French time. If the vote is really close, the result may not be known until the morning rush hour in France or later. Remember that in 2000 everything depended on Florida and that went to the courts and a partial recount.
The US, quite remarkably, doesn’t have federal laws on the conduct of federal elections, leaving it to local state law. There is no ban on counting the votes and declaring the victor before other states have finished voting.
I think what you heard about referred to Canada, which had a general election on Tuesday. There, there is meant to be a news blackout for the western provinces when the eastern provinces start counting. However, it didn’t work properly and so people in Alberta and British Columbia knew that the Conservatives were doing well before they’d finished voting.
This past Wednesday, World Net Daily published a story on the internet, saying a man who was a grad assistant at Western Kentucky University last semester, claims President Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii. That man is Tim Adams who was the Senior Elections Clerk for the city and county of Honolulu during the 2008 presidential election.
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Tim Adams, who was the Chief Elections Clerk in Honolulu during the 2008 Presidential Election, says that Obama was NOT born in Hawaii. Listen to the attached 7-minute audio clip. This was excerpted from the June 5th episode of the Political Cesspool radio show, Part 3 http://libertynewsradio.com/shows/tpc/tpc20100605c.mp3
In the lead up to the elections some are calling it the most important in decades.
EXCLUSIVE! Pastor Gallups responds to Keith Olbermann, MSNBC! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7q-OmvSVjY