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Frankg
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Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 3:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here!
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Lodgedodger
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Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 8:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here!
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Nanska
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Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 8:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We mailed in ours 2 weeks ago
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Chuckjav
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Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 10:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here, Here
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Eriedearie
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Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 10:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here! Ballot submitted Oct. 10th
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Alsodave
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Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 11:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dropping off my ballot tomorrow!
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East_detroit
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 12:06 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I need to go in person, so that I can personally declare that I am voting without a driver's license. I have all day.
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Mauser765
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 3:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

BAMN ! mrs mauser too.
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Mauser765
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 3:48 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i refused to produce my license when receiving the ballot. they said "okay" and compared signatures to last election - no biggie. but they did ask.
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East_detroit
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 8:16 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Magnificent valor, Mauser. We need to stand up next to the people who are being targeted by this nonsense.
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Dorothyd
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 4:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Turned in my husband's and mine last week.
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Jiminnm
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 7:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Submitted last week. Even the early voting around here is taking 2-3 hours.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 9:23 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I voted for them BOTH! TWICE!
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Homer
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Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 12:53 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Three from my house, and some from dead relatives. Every vote counts.
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6nois
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Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 9:21 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Done. Mailed it a week ago.
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Hagglerock
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 1:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

2 weeks ago from the sands of Iraq!
Lets hope it arrives.
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Ray1936
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 7:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Early voting (not absentee) ends today in Nevada. The Clark County Election Commission is reporting that 300,000 + votes have been cast early, or a full 1/3 of the total number of registered voters in the county. I'd call that quite a success story. (Yup, we voted Oct. 20, the first day.)

Uh...by the way....Happy 144th Birthday, Nevada.
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Jiminnm
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Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 12:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ray, early voting ends today here in NM. It's estimated that 20-25% of all registered voters voted early. That doesn't count absentees, and those are also being returned in record numbers. The Secy of State said that as many as 75-80% of registered voters may vote this year.

Oh, we're only 96 here (97 in January).
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Ray1936
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Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 2:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Warning: Threadjack ahead.

Jim, Nevada has the lamest state song of all 50 ("Home means Nevada", written by a grade school teacher 70 years ago.)

New Mexico has a state song ("O, Fair New Mexico") that has the nicest beat of all the 50. Given a good bass guitar, it could make the top ten in Latino music easily today. Viva, Nuevo Mejico!
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Jiminnm
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Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 4:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oddly enough Ray, I have heard the song and it's not half bad. Did you know that song was written in 1915 by Elizabeth Garrett, the blind daughter of Pat Garrett (who is alleged to have shot Billy the Kid)?

As if one song isn't enough, we also have a state ballad, Land of Enchantment by part-time Taos resident Michael Martin Murphey (who has written and recorded a few hundred songs like Wildfire, Carolina in the Pines, Geronimo's Cadillac, etc.), and a state bilingual song, New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico by Pablo Mares.

I won't go into the assorted state bugs, minerals, animals, etc.
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Ray1936
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Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 5:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nor I.

No, didn't know Elizabeth was a daughter of Pat Garrett, but did know she was the composer. Interesting.

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