The 'I voted' thread.

[angus]

Just voted for Hillary and straight D down ballot. Voted no on mandatory retirements for judges at age 75 (who puts crap like that on the ballot? That's blatant ageism. There's probably lots of judges over 75 sharper than those aged 65).

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you may have missed the point.  The current retirement age is 70.  It is mandatory that they retire "...at the end of the calendar year during which they reach their 70th birthday."  This referendum seeks to raise the mandatory retirement age to 75.  If you feel that mandatory retirement age represents unfair ageism, and if you think that they can be effective beyond 70, then you might want to vote Yes on that question.

[angus]

I voted!

I came home immediately after lab ended at 3:50 and jumped on the bicycle and headed to Saint Thomas Episcopal Church to vote.  It's about a mile away.  The boy sometimes comes with me but today he had a pile of homework so he stayed home and did that. 

There was a queue!  I've never experienced that.  I've read about them, mostly on this forum, but I've never actually waited in line to get my ballot before.  There were about ten people in front of me and it took nearly ten minutes from the time I entered the building till the time I received my ballot.  Luckily I locked the bicycle.  Usually I don't because it's such a short visit but the large number of cars in the parking lot suggested to me that I might have to wait so I put the lock on. 

I had a technical question this time.  I explained that I was going to write in the name of the presidential candidate and I wanted to know whether I also needed to write in the vice-presidential candidate in order for my vote to be counted.  The first octogenarian poll worker I asked did not know, so she called another octogenarian poll worker over and we asked her.  I explained that usually I can find one of the five candidates that I support, but it wasn't happening for me this year.  She asked whether I knew who I wanted to vote for and I said that I had studied it and had a particular presidential and vice-presidential candidate in mind.  I just want to know if I need to list both, or just the president.  She said yes, you must list a name for president and for vice president in order for it to be counted.  I made sure to spell it correctly.

I voted as follows:

President:  Bradford Lyttle  (P)
Vice President:  Hannah Walsh  (P)
US Senator:  Edward Clifford, III  (L)
US Representative:  Christina Hartman  (D)
Treasurer:  Joseph Torsella  (D)
Attorney General:  John Rafferty  (R)
Auditor General:  John Sweeney  (G)
State Senator:  Greg Paulson  (D)
State Representative:  Charles Klein  (D)
referendum:  yes

Paulson is the only one of them that I've spoken to personally.  He and I had a nice conversation downtown about two weeks ago at the Ware Center.  Surprisingly, he wasn't in campaign mode.  It was just us talking.  I decided that I liked him.  The others I've only read about but I'm pretty sure I like my choices.  I doubt any of them will win, except maybe Rafferty and Torsella. 

[angus]

I came home immediately after lab ended at 3:50

I've heard you teach at Millersville...what lab would this be?

Thermodynamics in the fall, quantum mechanics in the spring.  Caputo Hall room 226.  Are you into chemistry, physics, or any of the sciences?  Come stalk me some time and I'll show you some cool stuff.  We can throw a chunk of potassium in a beaker of water and watch the purple flame fly around the surface of the water.  You'll have to wear safety goggles.