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GenerationIke · 10-02-2008, 09:33 PM

There's this little known--used--voting factor called the write-in vote. On the older machines like I vote on there is a little window above all the names that you can use to put your own candidate of choice in. Many fail to know of it either because you are not told about it or they have put it in a place where you don't readily see it. Most of the time it is a bother to the people who work at the poles because the counter has to physically open up the box and look at the paper and see what was written on it.

I don't know about the computer diebolds where their write-in boxes might be, but if Americans finally get it in their heads that they CAN write in candidates' name they would like to have in their government instead of voting for the ones they've given us, we might find a bit of a change in our houses and senates little by little over time.

As long as we have a ground roots active plan for putting our own candidate in the write-in would definitely be the answer for many districts.

10-02-2008, 09:33 PM	#3
GenerationIke Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Geneva, NY Posts: 156	Re: Why register this time and vote? There's this little known--used--voting factor called the write-in vote. On the older machines like I vote on there is a little window above all the names that you can use to put your own candidate of choice in. Many fail to know of it either because you are not told about it or they have put it in a place where you don't readily see it. Most of the time it is a bother to the people who work at the poles because the counter has to physically open up the box and look at the paper and see what was written on it. I don't know about the computer diebolds where their write-in boxes might be, but if Americans finally get it in their heads that they CAN write in candidates' name they would like to have in their government instead of voting for the ones they've given us, we might find a bit of a change in our houses and senates little by little over time. As long as we have a ground roots active plan for putting our own candidate in the write-in would definitely be the answer for many districts.