Comments on: I voted. And other matters. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:58:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/#comment-521648 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:58:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/#comment-521648 This was also Huxley’s first time to the polls.

]]> By: chris https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/#comment-521647 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:54:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/#comment-521647 If we’d been at the same grocery store you’d have seen one on my 5 year old son. I took him with me and showed him how to fill out the bubbles. We had an interesting conversation on the way home about the party system and how voting works.

He’s very inquisitive and asked perceptive questions, like, “What happens to the people who don’t get the most votes?” I wanted to say, “They sometimes win anyway,” but I didn’t want to get into the Electoral College and Bush v. Gore.

]]> By: scidog https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/#comment-521646 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:57:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/10/i-voted-and-other-matters/#comment-521646 when i got my sticker i chatted with the lady handing them out.she said they had someone come in with a Ft. Snelling address and after a phone call or two got him to the right polling station where they put the paper ballots into–ready– a red toolbox.i have no idea who lives at the Ft,a caretaker,someone who works at the Club? but that sounds very cool and very Minnesota.

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