Today I exercised my right to vote in Wisconsin and I voted for Joe Biden.

[Talitha]

[Walleye]

1. Thank you, brave soul.

[George II]

2. I'm proud of you. I hope you didn't have a crowded polling place or long wait on line.

[Talitha]

9. I live way out in the boonies in a red countyand voted at noon - was number 80.

I'm glad Milwaukee didn't have our weather, it was thunderstorming like a son of a gun all morning. It's likely most of the voters came in the afternoon when there were patches of blue in the sky.

We had a choice of someone coming outside, but I went into the building. They sprayed my hands with something, and gave me a new gel-pen to mark the ballot with - no pencil-passing allowed.

My mask was on before I opened the door, and the 3 Ladies inside were all wearing masks, too - as well as sitting behind a plexiglass barrier.

We only have 2 booths (sparsely populated township) and immediately after I voted, the booth was sprayed with the same stuff she put on my hands.

The whole process was very nicely done!

Sure wish the voters in Milwaukee had been treated 1/10 as nicely, damned repugs.

[sheshe2]

17. Thank you, Talitha.

[ibegurpard]

3. Sorry repukes have trashed your once great state

Thank you for turning out in this shitshow

[AJT]

4. I did also.

[lkinwi]

5. Thank you!

I did an absentee two weeks ago. My friend worked at her polling place today. They had a skeleton crew, but got through it. I’m praying that she stays healthy.

[SheltieLover]

6. Thank you for voting!

I hope you were able to stay safe!

And I hope those state legislators who forced everyone to risk their lives today will be up to get ousted come Nov!

[Cha]

7. Mahalo, Talitha! Our Voting was suppose to be on April 4th..

but it has changed to All Mail in.. anxiously awaiting my ballot in the mail.

I hope you all you went out today are Safe!

[GeorgiaPeanut]

8. Thank you Talitha

K&R

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

10. Thank you. Please stay in now and stay safe.

The right to vote is so precious. Your bravery and that of thousands of others is amazing.

It is time to exterminate the Walker Disease which has such a damaging effect upon Wisconsin.

[Talitha]

11. Thank you all... you're so kind!

It's great to have Friends like you to talk to!

We'll be on pins and needles till the votes are all counted.

[Demsrule86]

12. I ordered my ballot for Ohio the 27th of April I think. We are having a by mail primary.

I am voting for Joe...he is already the nominee but it is my pleasure to vote for him.

[Bev54]

13. And I hope against the repub judge

[Talitha]

16. Absolutely! That goes without saying...

Time to throw the repug's shit-show into the gutter where it belongs.

[DUgosh]

14. Thank you!

You risked your life and we are grateful!

[Meowmee]

15. 👏🏻👏🏻

[Laffy Kat]

18. I heard it was raining and hailing!

You are a patriot.

[Talitha]

19. Hail? Wow - maybe farther north of me. All we got was rain. BIG drops of it.

And thank you, I think we're all Patriots.

We're bound and determined to get our state and country back on track.

Go with Joe and you can't go wrong.

[jrthin]

20. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[dobleremolque]

21. You are a genuine hero! n/t

[LisaM]

22. If the Democrats somehow win the judge seat...

The Republicans will for sure try to find some way to invalidate it. Did you see Trump insisting today that vote by mail was riddled with fraud?

[Talitha]

33. Yes, I saw a clip of it tonight. He's hoping to sow the seeds of suspicion.

But the only ones who will listen are donnie's deplorables. The rest of us got hs number a LONG time ago.

One thing that keeps giving me hope is the way we stormed in and took the House back. If the repugs had things locked up ahead of time (like they want us to think they do), we never would have been able to do it.

That's why it's so important to GOTV!!!

[The Magistrate]

23. Good For You, Ma'am

Thank you.

Be well, and stay safe!

[Midnight Writer]

24. Thank you. I salute you and your bladder.

[BlueWI]

25. Absentee ballot never arrived.

Voted in person for Warren. Last chance to weigh in for strong structural change before the GE.

Meanwhile, the election process was wack beyond wack in our state. Plenty of work to do for every progressive citizen if we're to break the Republican stranglehold in Madison.

[emmaverybo]

26. Thank you. Hat off to your bravery.

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R

[mzmolly]

28. Thank you!

[Dem2theMax]

29. On behalf of all of us,

Thank you! Stay safe and healthy.

[onetexan]

35. Ditto

[ismnotwasm]

30. K&R

[ffr]

31. Patriot!

Thank you!

[Don1]

32. Good job.

Go Democracy!

[Talitha]

34. Thank you to everyone - you guys are GREAT!!!

[Cha]

38. You're Greater.. GOTV in Wisconsin in person! All you Wisconsinites..

Mahalo!

[quakerboy]

36. get it done.

Im terrified that people will die because they felt voting was important enough, despite republicans refusing to allow people to do it safely.

But amazed and greatful that people are still voting anyway. We have to beat trump, or many more of us will die

[Gothmog]

37. Thank you

[kcr]

39. kick

[no_hypocrisy]

40. Thank you for your effort to save our Democracy!

[robbedvoter]

41. Thank you. And where are the results?

It’s like it never happened.

[Cha]

42. We were told we wouldn't get the results

until April 13th.

[whistler162]

43. Well here you go....

[alterfurz]

44. No, Joe...

...I am from Wisconsin and I am here to tell you yesterday's election was a personal and public health disaster.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-voting-in-the-wisconsin-primary-is-safe-locals-say-it-could-kill-them

[The Magistrate]

45. This Is Simply Noise, Sir

Mr. Biden had no influence at all on whether the primary was conducted.

The governor did his best and was balked by the legislature and the courts. A Federal judge did his best under constraints of law to reduce the risks posed by the primary, and was overruled by Republican shit-heels packed onto the Supreme Court by McConnell and the cheap thug Trump.

Do you expect Mr. Biden to have called for Democrats to absent themselves from the polls, thus ensuring Republican victory in various special elections and measures voted on simultaneously with the party primaries?

This is the kind of senseless, content free drivel people have come to expect from those engaged in a campaign against not the cheap thug Trump, but against the 'Democratic Establishment'. It is at best naive, and at worst deliberate distortion aimed at audience which is ignorant of the normal conduct of public affairs.


"So much of left wing thought is a sort of playing with fire by people who don't even know fire is hot."





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[alterfurz]

46. Biden insisted that in-person voting could be done safely...

...exactly what Robin Vos claimed.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/what-a-clown-msnbcs-morning-joe-nukes-wisconsin-gop-leader-for-touting-incredibly-safe-voting-during-pandemic

[The Magistrate]

47. The Question Is One Of Influence On The Outcome, Sir --- Nothimg Else Matters

Again, your comment is mere noise, and deliberately divisive noise at that. You are free to continue, of course, but do not expect your efforts will not be engaged, and accurately described for what they are.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[alterfurz]

48. Clearly, nothing else matters...

...to you.

PS/FYI--I have been a DU member in good standing since 2001, but I have never been a "Sir" any more than a Magistrate.

[The Magistrate]

49. If One Attempts To Ascribe Blame Or Responsibility

Certainly the capacity of a person to actually affect a thing ought to be taken into account. Not to do so renders any charge frivolous at best.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[alterfurz]

50. To be clear:

It was never claimed that Biden bears any direct responsibility/blame for yesterday's public health debacle (which may prove to have undone weeks of my state's "Safer at Home" efforts)--only that his insistence that in-person voting could be conducted safely during a pandemic was disturbingly and dangerously disingenuous. I can only hope that your (and now all DU's) candidate doesn’t believe that further repeating of WI-GOP talking points is the way to win Wisconsin in November.

[The Magistrate]

52. You Were Clear Enough, Sir

You are attempting to suggest responsibility to someone without authority. I must go wash dishes for the womenfolk of the household, and will accordingly leave this lie for a while.

Carry on as you wish....





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[alterfurz]

53. It has also become abundantly clear...

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..that as The Magistrate, the final word in all cases must, and shall always and forevermore be, yours. Feel free to reply with it now, perhaps finishing with the flourish of yet another cockily condescending Willy Wonka "Sir."
See ya at the polls, if the creek don't rise and the #trumpox don't get you, me, & Grampy Joe first!
</alterfurz>

[LakeArenal]

51. Thanks. Hope they don't cheat you out of your sacrifice.