Yeah, I had the same feeling. For the first time, I actually skipped voting on a few of the offices :(Its on the November 2, 2010 ballot.

I have no remorse about not voting for specific things if I don't care.

I honestly don't care who is mayor of my town. So I don't vote for it. Same for Seat #3 on the Dippity **** Stream and Management Conservation Regional Tallyhoo Board.

I only voted for governor, lt governor and the house/senate people. I don't care about local representation.

Yay Gavin Newsom!

He won for, what primary again? Deputy AG? Lt. Governor? I forget.

I'm just glad the two corporate-shill ballot measures I loathed went down in flames.


But sheesh, even though there was NO ONE at my polling place when I got there, and my name is easy to find as one of the LAST in the alphabet, it took them over 10 minutes to get me my ballot. Not exactly the crack team for the primaries, eh?

Lt. Governor. I still wish he were running for governor, but he was probably smart to step out of the way of the Jerry Brown steamroller.

I was the first in line at my polling place, where apparently most of the workers called in sick. There was only one lady there when I arrived 5 minutes before it opened, a 2nd showed up at 6:59. They announced, 'The poll is open...but we have no idea what we're doing." :rolleyes: It then took about 5 minutes to find my name and get the computer to spit out my #. Hopefully my vote actually counted.

As the first there, I did get to be the one to validate that the ballot box was empty, and then seal it. That was nifty.

Having experienced him somewhat directly as mayor, while I agree that he's on the right side of social issues, I haven't seen anything to make me look forward to him being governor. Between him and Jerry Brown I'd probably take Brown.

Fortunately Lt. Governor don't mean anything so I'm fine with him there. Plus I have to imagine that former mayors of Oakland and San Francisco being #1 and #2 would make tea partiers weep.

I'm glad to see that the insurance initiative failed. It was a way to jack up rates flavored as a benefit to you. There are so many legitimate reasons for a lapse in coverage - including military service overseas, living in Manhattan for a few years, changing insurance companies and they botch the start date so coverage doesn't overlap. It gives them an opportunity to eliminate the loyalty discount while appearing to extend it. I don't think they would have spent that much money on the campaign if they didn't anticipate that chances to void loyalty and impose "surcharges" weren't going to exceed extensions of loyalty discounts to new customers.

Plus, there are an awful lot of uninsured motorists out there and it sure sucks to get hit by one. If an uninsured driver decides to go legal, this proposition would have been a barrier. I'm not in favor of increasing incentives to forgo insurance.

No that's going on the November ballot. Like all props ought to until we can do away with this system entirely.

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