Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, We voted from Germany back in 2008. We filed ahead of time and had the ballots sent to our German hosts house, and then did our voting and sent them out from there. Fairly easy, I thought. gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:07:38 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: visual thinking I am in lucky position of being able to vote in 3 countries: the US (presidential elections only), Poland (all elections) and Spain (local elections). I certainly vote in all Polish and Spanish elections (we have interesting local elections here in the Valencia region next year, and there are LOTS of corrupt politicians to kick out). I vote in US elections only when it is close in the state where I can vote (NJ, my last residence there), but usually it is not worth the effort since the Democrats almost always carry the state by a comfortable margin, so my vote does not make any difference--and the process of casting a US ballot from abroad is truly painful. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > The reason why I asked that is from my experience in India, most > armchair experts do not vote. My personal view is that forfeits their > right to pontificate about anything. I strongly support Brazil's > system where voting is legally compulsory, and not doing so is a > criminal offense. > > Incidentally, we have been having elections in one of our poorest and > least educated states, Bihar, and till now (the voting is held on six > days over a month in order to deploy police forces in sufficient > numbers), despite Maoist threats of violence the voting has been > around 55%. The interesting thing is that for the first time in living > memory, the elections would probably favour the incumbent Chief > Minister, Nitish Kumar, who again, for the first time in living memory > has actually brought development to the state. Ranged against him are > political parties who truly believe that educating the populace is > dangerous as it will eat into their vote bank! > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at >> gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Did all of you vote last time? >>> >> >> >> Two years ago, I did not vote in an election for millage renewal, and a >> city >> councilman. The favored one was my choice, and he won. I had to be out >> of >> town unexpectedly, otherwise I would have voted early. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information