Post Race!

[homer13j]

Lol, that's funny. Do y'all still do paper ballots?

I still have yet to vote (waiting for the lunchtime crowd to clear out) but two years ago we still used paper ballots.

[dday9]

Since I've started voting in 2010, we've had an electrical one.

[dday9]

It didn't have levers, rather it's a felt like paper over a large area(4.5' x 4') with buttons underneath the felt. You pressed a button by the candidate or amendment and it would place a green X by the name or amendment.

[dday9]

I just googled "Voting Booth" and I see setups of 5 to dozens of booths. I went to a school and there were just two booths.

[homer13j]

A few more from the last couple of weeks:

The Rocky River about a mile downstream from the last shot

[homer13j]

Tappan Square, Oberlin, Ohio

[homer13j]

Enzo contemplates the meaning of life - or where to poop next

[homer13j]

Tinker's Creek, Bedford, Ohio

[Gruff]

Enzo and I have a lot in common.

[Gruff]

My daughter and her youngest son's first birthday.

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[dday9]

I hate to say it, but she looks nothing like you Gruff. The only fur she appears to have is on her head.

[dday9]

Plus, I can't see any whiskers either.

[dday9]

This one appears to be more like your daughter:

[Gruff]

Typical rainy day at work in Oregon.
(Looking out my new cube window.)

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[dday9]

That car next to the Durango appears to be a mid 90's Ford Escort station wagon! That was my first car.

[Gruff]

*Heh*

[dday9]

If you add about a decade to the year built. And take away the station wagon.

[dday9]

But it was still the booger green color.

[homer13j]

Ford Escort station wagon

I had Mercury's version of the Escort wagon. Paid $150 for it which turned out to be about $100 too much. It was such a POS rustbucket I tried to get it towed away. I even parked it during a Browns' game ON THE SIDEWALK at the corner of West 6th & St. Clair right across the street from the Justice Center. You can imagine my disappointment when I returned the next day and it was still there.

So I parked it in front of the third district police headquarters in a space marked "POLICE VEHICLES ONLY." It took more than two weeks, but they finally hauled it away.

[dday9]

Wow, sounds a lot like my car(unfortunately for me I paid about 10 times your price).

[Gruff]

My first car was a nash rambler.

So old the floorboards on the driver side rusted through.

You had to keep your feet up on the pedals to keep them from dragging in the gravel.

Looked something like this though not as good looking.
faded pink top and dirty cream lower body.
Ran intermittently if you push started it.

The passenger door was held closed with coat hanger wire.

Older Nash models did not have cut out wheel wells.
I thought it made them look clunky. Not unlike a wind up toy car.

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[Gruff]

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[dday9]

My wife's grandfather's first car was an AMC Rambler. Yellow exterior and black interior.

[dday9]

I like the Hudson/Nash/AMC cars. That is pre-70s for the AMC. I did not like the Javelin or the others.

[szlamany]

I call my old VB6 UI "AMC"...

New web version is AWC...

[dday9]

He grew up poor though and his first car wasn't until he got back from Vietnam in '70.

[Gruff]

My current ride. The green sure footed mountain goat.

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[homer13j]

Still paper ballots here. Sad to see so many Dem judges running unopposed including the entire 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. But that's the price of living in a liberal mecca like Cuyahoga County.

I did get to vote against the traffic cameras. That was nice. I believe they're as good as gone.

[homer13j]

My mother's last car was a Rambler. She died in 1969.

You guys remember the SC/Rambler? That was a cool car...

[dday9]

I'm actually %100 for traffic camera's if you're referring to the ones that take pictures of the license plates if you run a red light.

[dday9]

Those that live in that town know where they are, so the majority of the citations will be out of towners.

[homer13j]

I did not like the Javelin

The AMX was cool. It was a two-seat Javelin.



The reason for the Javelin's fugly fenders was to allow oversized tires in the SCCA Trans-Am series. You couldn't flare the fenders just to race - the carbody had to be stock. So they put the flared fenders on at the factory.

[homer13j]

Those that live in that town know where they are, so the majority of the citations will be out of towners.

Not here. The speed cameras are portable and constantly moved around so you never know where they are. I don't have a problem with the red light cameras, but the vote was an all-or-nothing thing so I voted to get rid of them all.

[dday9]

The speed cameras are portable and constantly moved around so you never know where they are.

Oh those! Yeah we had one in a smaller city west of us and they voted that out like a month after the city got it.

[Gruff]

I hate those red light buggers. If your traveling the posted speed and happen to hit the unholy sweet spot you are not going to be able safely stop in time. I did it once and left skid marks all the way up and over the crosswalk. Got a ticket for sure. I like to think I'm a safe driver, I leave lots of space ahead of me and drive the speed limit. Perhaps the camera and timing is set up wrong for the posted speed.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Lol, that's funny. Do y'all still do paper ballots?

We moved up from clay tablets since the last election. Man did that suck! If you got there late in the day, the clay had dried enough that you got all dusty, and it was terribly hard work. It would have been easier if they'd just let us scratch one line through the box, but making us chisel out the whole box to a depth no less than a quarter inch was really hard on the elderly.

This year, I got there early so that I could make my mark before the clay had really set up, but lo and behold, the ballots were made of paper!! Progress even arrives out here in the hinterlands.

[dday9]

I thought that they allocated a little bit of time after the light turns red to compensate for that.

[Shaggy Hiker]

What disappointed me about the polling station this year was that two years ago there was a serious MILF working there, but this year...I just voted. There were very nice people working there, but none that I wanted to poll.

What did disturb me, a bit, was the fact that the registration sheets were large with small print, so there were LOTS of names on each sheet, yet I may have been the first one to sign on the sheet that had my name. I realize that turnout isn't all that high in mid-term elections, and I did get over there in the first hour that the polling station was open, but it wasn't much of a showing.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Wow, I thought I was posting on something relatively recent, but two whole topics have been covered since my last post.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Gruff's daughter: She's a gal, so naturally she shaved off the extra fur. He's not European, you know.

Cars: My first car....has returned to the earth, I'm sure.

Cameras: I believe that we have red light cameras on most of the lights, but I also believe that the budget to operate them has never existed, so the cameras are just for show.

Back to polling...well, I added my comments.