Voted

Was voter #94 this morning so there's been a reasonable in-person turnout already at my precinct.

Overall, it proceeded rather smoothly, although the fellow in front of me caused a bit of a hold up. Apparently his claimed new address did not match his current driver's license, nor his voter registration records which were for a different precinct, so he got sent to the town hall to sort it out. Good to see they're checking at least that much.

So if you haven't voted yet, you have a small window left to make sure you understand the issues, the proposals, and then choose people who best represent your views, and vote accordingly.

The Fifth Of May - Proposal 1 Voting Takes Place Today

So I voted today.

Against the Proposal 1 tax increase, an increase that would be the biggest tax increase in the state since 1967, for many of the same reasons quite cogently explained by Tom McMillin.

I voted in favor of the renewal of my local schools hold-harmless millage. Taxes won't go up and if it is not renewed our district, currently ranked one of the best if not the best in Michigan for results in terms of student performance, will drop to the lowest funded district in the state. This would not be a happy occasion.

Most people I talked to seem to have the same position, but we'll see what the majority of voters decide.

We'll see what we end up with when the results come in.

Voted

Went to the poling place at around 11:30 am today, and there were 300 previous voters at that point.

Interestingly enough, they had accidentally given the voter right in front of me two ballots (one was stuck to the other) just before I reached the point in line to receive my ballot. There was a short delay until they frantically tracked down the missing ballot and got it back in order and then all was well.

We'll give them points for paying attention.

Happily, he had not started on that one as it was stuck under the ballot he was actually supposed to have, so I was able to cast my ballot without any pre-completed selections.

Primary Voting Done

This year's primary looks like it is going to have quite the low turnout.

At 3:00 pm I was voter #99 at my precinct.

I voted yes to Proposal 1 to get rid of the regressive and archaic business personal property tax, an easy decision to make indeed.

Next I was faced with a choice of voting either Republican or Democrat in the primary there wasn't a lot of choices to make this ballot.

On the Democrat side running for Congress there were choices of either a Democrat platform lockstep strongly anti-gun rights candidate, a rabidly anti-gun rights candidate, a foaming at the mouth anti-gun rights candidate or a totally loony anti-gun rights candidate.

Considering my district has been gerrymandered into Detroit, whichever anti-gun rights candidate wins today will most likely be the next Congress-critter save for one slim possibility.

The Republican running for the Congressional seat has a last name of Conyers.

There is a non-zero chance that a lot of Detroiters will see the name Conyers and reflexively vote for it regardless of the (R) appearing after it on the ballot.

So yeah, odds are good I'll be stuck with yet another anti-gun rights congress-critter come November, and one even worse than the current occupant, Gary Peters.

So I voted on the Republican ballot and I voted in the only contested race on it. I voted for State Senator Mike Kowall as he's been solid pro-gun throughout his time in office and deserves to stay in office.

It took all of 5 minutes to vote, how about you?