Pet_Bunny wrote:
Luvmyzoocrew wrote:
maybe i can pretend that my water broke and they will let us butt to the front!!! lol
As a Canadian observer, I am not familiar with your voting and your ballots. How many names are on the ballots? And what kind of things do you vote for.
In our last Federal election, we had 5 names from 5 different parties and we had to choose one. My polling station was 2 blocks from my house, I walked over and was home in 5 minutes.
Hi Stan, Here is what the Ohio sample ballot looked like
http://thevoterguide8.cleveland.com/race-index.do
Every one in the state votes on President and Ohio Attorney General. Ohio had 6 statewide issues all of us could vote on except that Issue 4 was withdrawn prior to the election.
My county, Medina is the 13th federal congessional districts so the 2 candiates from our districts appear on my ballot. The other districts are not shown.
It's the same for for State Senate and State House, only the district where I live is shown on my ballot. Ohio Supreme Court and the appropriate court of appeals appears on my ballot.
Since we live in Medina County, only the issues and candiates for Medina County appear on my ballot. City issues will not appear unless it happens that my town, Hinckley, has particular levies like school or fire. This time or townshio no specific levies.
On the list tha appears for Medina County, we could vote all the way down to Medina County Probate/Juvenile. We skipped everything from Brunswick Hills through Cloverleaf because those are not our town or district. Medina County Health levy was on the ballot because it's county wide. Sometimes we get school tax levies and or volunteer fire department levies.
You will notice that metropolitan areas like Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and Summit County (Akron) have lots more on their ballots then those of us in the country.
I hope that helps understand the convolutions a little... In Ohio we can have citizen initiatives that get put on the ballot based on petitioning. Many states do not have citizen initiatives and would need to go through the lawmakers to get a referendum.
Basically this election we are voting for 1 federal office and a lot state and local issues.In 2 years we will have another election which will include some federal offices, some state issues (ie governor here in Ohio)and some local issues.
