Vote
It was heard at a shopping counter recently: “I’m not going to vote for either one.”
My advice is pick out the one you dislike the most, then vote for the other one. But get out and vote, vote, vote.
WAYNE N. MOOSE
Lewisville
Easy solution
There's an easy solution to the problem of dead people on the voting rolls (“County, group at odds over voter rolls,” Sept. 27). All someone at the Voter Integrity Project need do is take a subscription to the Winston-Salem Journal and other area papers and read the obituaries. Then, they can write the elections board and make sure these unfortunates are off the rolls — immediately.
I'm sure they'll volunteer their time for this worthwhile project, which otherwise would cost the taxpayer millions of dollars to hire a few people to do this. They could be a thousand points of light in the night sky.
ROGER N. KIRKMAN
Winston-Salem
Devoted
For 30 years I have worked in real-estate law in this community. A well-run Registry of Deeds is essential.
It is people like Karen Gordon who are responsible for this important work. She has devoted her career to the Forsyth County Register of Deeds office. The people of this county need her back in that office.
A.L. “BUDDY” COLLINS
Kernersville
Finish the Thought
Saturday, we asked readers to complete the sentence: “Debates between presidential candidates can help voters if they ...”
“... succinctly and yet forcefully highlight and detail their contrast and differences in their policy positions and rebut with strong, spontaneous counter-punch. Scripted statements and answers will make the debate look tame.”
BOON T. LEE
“… just tune in. Then they can see Mitt try to debate with his foot in his mouth, like he does everything else.”
EDWARD WAKE
“…if the questions and comments leveled at said candidates by the moderators do not reflect the opinion of their employers.”
WILLIAM K. ACH
“… don't even turn the TV on.”
MONA POTTS
“… turn off the TV and spend that hour on their knees praying for our nation.”
FAITH A. HILL
“… more clearly outline where they really stand on the issues.”
WILLIAM SAMS
“…are honest and truthful and avoid any negative comments during the debates. The American people want facts not falsehoods.”
JACK LUTZ
“… if the candidates are not unfairly controlled by the moderator in charge of the guidelines for the debates. That is, eliminate any and all attempts to bias control by the input, format, procedures and process of the debates that could be caused by conservatives or liberals.”
PETE LOVETTE
“…if the questions asked and the answers given are about actual problems and what the candidates would do, specifically, to address the issue. The likelihood of that happening is low because it would mean a candidate would have to take a stand that would cost him votes and to set measurable standards he can be held to.
“Most importantly, they would have to tell the American people the truth about the seriousness of the situation we are in and what it will take to fix the problem. Not what the American Idol set wants to hear.”
KEN HOGLUND
“…open their minds and really listen. After all, Obama said before the debates, if he could not turn things around in three years he would not deserve to be reelected. He said it would be a one-term presidency. Did you hear him? Will you act on Nov. 6?
MARVORENE EDWARDS
#1-If voting were not important then there would not be so many groups and legislators trying to stop certain citizens from voting.
ReplyDeletePick your poison. If you can't handle Romney or Obama then there is Gary Johnson.
The language of democracy is voting. Speak the language if you want to continue to live in representative democracy.
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Delete#2 The board of elections should cull data from local newspapers regarding death notices if they do not do so already.
ReplyDeleteIf I recall correctly, the latest accusations of dead people voting in NC have not revealed one case of an actual dead person voting. People who were deceased on election day did cast votes, but they did so by voting early or by absentee ballot prior to their departure.
The local board of elections receives a daily list of local deaths from the register of deeds office, which is checked off against voter registration rolls.
DeleteThe problem is people who die elsewhere, because their deaths are recorded wherever they die and not here. The elections folks check the Journals death notices list as well, but not all deaths of local people get listed.
The last time dead people voted in NC was about 60 years ago, when the Ponder boys in Mitchell County, up on the Tennessee line, resurrected a bunch of Democrats and threw the Republicans out of office.
When EY Ponder went to take over the sheriff's office, the Republican sheriff set up a machine gun on the courthouse steps and dared him to try to claim his office.
In the next election, hundreds of Republicans were resurrected to counter the dead Democrats, but by then, even more Democrats had been resurrected, so the Ponders held power in the county for several years.
Eventually, the SBI had to go up there and shoo all those dead folks back into their graves.
#3 As Dotnet will say, "endorsement".
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard of any evil deeds being done by our current register of deeds, but labels matter; Coach, Michael Kors, Kate Spade, Prada, Steve Madden, Uggs and of course Apple.
Debate:
ReplyDeleteRomney-1, Obama-0.
The president's flat and unengaging performance will result in tightening of the polls to the delight cable news outlets,super pacs and the GOP.
Regarding Mr. Lovette's comment, the candidates were definitely not over controlled by the moderator Jim Lehrer. Romney summarily dismissed him along with BigBird.
Regarding the debate:
DeleteIt was ugly. Romney put an old fashioned Bucky beat down on Obama.
It kinda reminded me of when I get some of Rush's nonsense in my teeth, and go to work.
Romney exposed Obama for what he is: a weak, uninformed, and ineffectual president.
What was telling was Obama's horrible body language. I've probably interviewed hundreds, if not thousands of people. Had Obama attempted to sell me the bill of goods he was selling last night, I'd have probably called him a liar to his face.
In Obama's closing, he failed to look directly at the camera, hence the American people, in the face. That was a critical and major error.
For all you liberals, that said this race is all sewn up. Shame on you, and shame on the liberal media.
I always choose to wait until the results of elections are in before I declare a winner. I suggest you liberals do the same.
According to a CNN/ORC International survey conducted right after the debate, 67% of debate watchers questioned said that the Republican nominee won the faceoff, with one in four saying that President Barack Obama was victorious.
ReplyDelete"No presidential candidate has topped 60% in that question since it was first asked in 1984," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland
CNN
David Axelrod and James Carville....ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba....what? ba ba ba ba ba...!
DeleteOf course, I 'never' underestimate the delusional state of Rush's mind. He'll say something stupid.
DeleteGood AM, folks!
ReplyDeleteI did not watch the debate, but looked at NBC and CNN afterward to see what the chattering class had to say. It appears that they agree with Wordly's assessment above, for the most part.
Carville tried to spin it favorably, suggesting that subsequent fact checking would dilute Romney's apparent debate win. However, President Obama bent facts a bit, himself. Axelrod seemed a bit nonplussed, but tried to put a positive face on it, as well.
Several reasons were given for President Obama's flat performance (underestimating Romney, no teleprompter), which may have some validity. However, in seeing some of the clips from the debate, it appeared to me that Romney was much better rested than was the President, who appeared to be fatigued. Obama may well want to take a bit of a break before the next debate.
Romney should avoid being overconfident for the next debate. Obama's campaign will take lessons from this first outing.
Did you see MSNBC? Chris Mathews looked like he had swallowed a mouse.
DeleteThis could be 'huge'. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out down the road.
"It looked like Romney wanted to be there and President Obama didn't want to be there," noted Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville. "The president didn't bring his 'A' game.
DeleteWhat's wrong with Romney?
DeleteMs Obamaphone: Romney sucks! Bad!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
I wonder what she'd say about the president's performance last night?
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DeleteGood afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: There are alternatives such as Gary Johnson. I've also read some articles that suggest many Paulbots are planning to write in Ron Paul.
LTE 2: An even easier solution would be to automate the process, so that when a death certificate is recorded, it will trigger a server job that will envoke a stored procedure that updates the voter registration. Very simple to write. It will just require some verification that the person is in fact deceased prior to the death certificate being recorded.
LTE 3: Wordly knows me well ;). I received a mailer from the election office about candidates for judgeships and other state offices such as the State Auditor. Looking at the candidates for Auditor, one was a CPA with years of experience, while the other didn't seem to have any background in accounting whatsoever. I would think positions such as State Auditor and Register of Deeds would require some experience / education in those particular fields in order to know how to perform the required duties. I can't imagine a private company even interviewing a candidate for an auditing position who has no background in accounting. Would these positions best be served by appointment or hired by a county manager / state secretary/treasurer?
Finish the thought: going with Ms. Potts and Ms. Hill on this one. I didn't watch the debate last night and have no plans to watch any that are left. I don't foresee any improvement in the disfunctionality of Congress that will permit either presidential candidate to enact any changes that they have proposed. If Romney were to get elected, it would not surprise me to see the D's pull an R and devote the next 4 years to ensuring a Romney defeat in 2016 by blocking every proposed legislation. The only solution to the partisanship I see is either an end to gerrymandered districts which will eliminate most of the TB's on both sides or the emergence of a moderate 3rd party.
"Obama wanted to have a conversation, Romney came in there with a chainsaw."
DeleteJames Carville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGRCjKhqiog
Okay Bob...., I know you're out there. What's you take on the debate, and what will happen in the coming polls?
ReplyDeleteBucky, Bob engages you by his choice. Since he doesn't have TV, I doubt he even saw debate, so you'll have to go back to your CNN watching for entertainment.
DeleteOkay Wordly. I was just giving him a shout-out. He always has something interesting to say, unlike you know who.
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ReplyDeleteGood informations you have shared. Thank you so much.
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