Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Early voting



I voted today on the second day of early voting here for as many Green Party candidates as were on the ballot. Before voting, you had to apply for early voting, which I don't think I had to do before. The application was in English, Spanish, and Chinese. There were many more people voting today than previoiusly when I voted early. At this location, there were 200 on the first day, and some locations had as many as 400.

On the judges portion of the ballot, the majority of the candidates were female. The last item on the 15th page is a referendum on putting a recall motion on the ballot in November for Blagojevich. There is also a vote for a referendum on a State Constitutional Convention. When getting your Sequoia card, they hand you a piece of paper saying that this item is incorrect and should be ignored by the voter. The 1970 Illinois constitution requires that the question of calling a convention should be put before the voters every 20 years.

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