I did it, have you done it?
Nov. 7th, 2006 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichelefTook TRex with me to vote after I picked her up after daycare. She was pretty amused, I guess, but got impatient towards the end (they only have one machine for each district - four districts vote at our polling place).
In part because I was feeling contrary, I voted almost straight party line. Of course, I did so by voting for candidates nominated by the Working Families Party. (In New York, a candidate can be nominated by multiple parties.) Turns out that this actually has an effect - the order of the lines on the ballot are determined by the ranking of the parties in the previous gubernatorial election - Republicans first because Pataki won last time, Dems second because they came in second, Conservatives third because that line got the third-most votes, etc. So I'm double-happy that I was feeling contrary, because I'd much rather have a "third" party that I support close to the top rather than the Conservative and Libertarian parties (both of which appeared above WFP).
And now I'm going to sit here and look at my picture of my new political boyfriend. He's cute.
In part because I was feeling contrary, I voted almost straight party line. Of course, I did so by voting for candidates nominated by the Working Families Party. (In New York, a candidate can be nominated by multiple parties.) Turns out that this actually has an effect - the order of the lines on the ballot are determined by the ranking of the parties in the previous gubernatorial election - Republicans first because Pataki won last time, Dems second because they came in second, Conservatives third because that line got the third-most votes, etc. So I'm double-happy that I was feeling contrary, because I'd much rather have a "third" party that I support close to the top rather than the Conservative and Libertarian parties (both of which appeared above WFP).
And now I'm going to sit here and look at my picture of my new political boyfriend. He's cute.
