So Obama Won...

[Tadao]

Would it be an abuse of power?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm glad Obama won. I think in another few years I'll be able to travel out of the U.S. and actually tell them I'm a U.S. citizen.

[Maxilor]

OBAMA YOU MEANIE! YOU MADE JESSE JACKSON CRY!



Shhhhhhh dont cry Jesse dont cry....

[liquidstatik]

..

[Maxilor]

Originally Posted by liquidstatik

that African-American looks baked

too true

[Grislygus]

[Misdemonar]

im baked

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Finally another Irishman in the office!

[darkvare]

how voting works in the us?
in mexico you have a credential you go to your local booth and they die your finger with a purple thing so you won't vote again

[Asila]

Originally Posted by darkvare

how voting works in the us?
in mexico you have a credential you go to your local booth and they die your finger with a purple thing so you won't vote again

It honestly sounds like a better system, I'm still irritated that they didn't ask for my ID

[Dixie]

They didn't ask for mine either and my maiden name was on the books.

[Asila]

All my info was right, except that it was right from 4 years ago when I lived in this area before. I was lucky that I'd moved back into the area before the election.

[Seven Force]

I'm real glad he won, he had just better not "****** out" on us

[Big Papa Goat]

In canada we just hire a bunch of retired people to run the election. And on election day we just draw a little mark in a circle (doesn't matter what kind of mark, but it has to be in the circle. And it can't be a number, and it can't be all over the damn page.) and then the retired people go back to the local elections office (which is usually a hockey equipment store that has been temporarily taken over by Elections Canada) and count up the votes. And then they tell this guy who won, and he tells the rest of us:
And then we ask this guy what he thinks about it:
And that's Canadian politics in a nutshell.

[Kitsa]

We (and by that I mean my immediate neighborhood) vote in the library of an elementary school. There are always five or six elderly pollworkers lined up at a table and you give them your name. Then the fun begins while they search through a big book to see if you're registered. I gave them my ID to make it easier, but they didn't ask for it.

My real name is a long French one and apparently one of the old women thought it droll. So she called it out to all of her companions to see if they'd ever heard of it, while I stood there waiting with twenty people behind me. So everyone else in line knew exactly who, by name, was voting. Great.

After you work your way down the line of oldfolk, they code a card in a little machine and give it to you. You go to an open voting booth (little computer on stilts that prints out the completed ballot like a receipt). The old people who are voting never know how to use the computers and generally anyone under 60 has to act as tech support. Then you scroll through and touch the screen for who you want and when you finish the receipt-ballot is printed up behind a little window and shoots off somewhere.

Then you take your card out and return it to the guy and get a sticker so you can go get free Starbucks.

[glowbelly]

in cuyahoga county, ohio, we used paper ballots. fill in the bubble style. one of the voters next to me said "i feel like i'm taking a test." then the ballot got slipped into some optical scanner thing to make sure we were in the right district or whatev and then all the ballots go to somewhere to be counted.

[AChimp]

Don Newman rules! They're going to replace him with an animatronic version when he finally dies.

[ElPila666]

[Kitsa]

I was playing something online last night and there was this guy walking around going

CHICKEN
CHICKEN
40s
WATERMELON
FOLDING LAWNCHAIRS
CHICKEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE

One thing about the whole racism aspect I don't understand is this: isn't it -less- racist if you don't vote for someone just because he's the blackguy? I mean, don't you want him to be the better person for the job, not just the blackguy? It kind of scares me to think how many people went into the voting booth with the intent to prove to themselves how non-racist they were by voting for someone who was black.

I am hoping, hoping, hoping that people aren't really that dumb.

[MetalMilitia]

Well it's not exactly "racist" as they're not discriminating against the black guy by voting for him. It's... whatever the opposite of racism is... like this:

[Tadao]

[Kitsa]

Maybe it's phrased wrong.

Isn't voting for him -just- because he's black sort of racist?

[Tadao]

Yes

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by Kitsa

It kind of scares me to think how many people went into the voting booth with the intent to prove to themselves how non-racist they were by voting for someone who was black.

i, uh..

is that really a concern?

How many people do you think voted against him because he was black? 'Cause that seems like the larger group by far. That doesn't disgust you more?

[Tadao]

Hidden racism is worse.