I Voted…

[Dave2512]

I didn't get any call just a few things hanging on my door. Still the barrage of "news" and ads has been a grind. On Wed I suspect I will feel like I was freed from a dungeon and see sun for the first time in months.

 

[Kalnoky]

24 minutes ago, mcanadiens said:

What I don't get are the throngs of people that are voting early.

My beloved sister apparently didn't want to spend 15 minutes voting tomorrow at our neighborhood precinct, so she just juiced four hours waiting at the County Board of Elections in the next town over..

We have vote by mail in Oregon. I think other states are looking at doing the same going forward.

Super impersonal, but easy. 

[Dave2512]

Yep mail in is a must for me. I hated waiting in line back in the day, though I hated liquor stores and bars being closed more.

[mcanadiens]

19 minutes ago, Kalnoky said:

We have vote by mail in Oregon. I think other states are looking at doing the same going forward.

Super impersonal, but easy. 

Actually that is an option here in Ohio as well. They must of spent plenty of tax dollars mailing everybody in the state to let them know about it.

My precinct is right on the way to lunch, so it's real easy for me.

[Hacker James]

Mail in for me. I switched party affiliation a year or so ago. I feel a little guilty however, since I have received political favors by members of both parties at one time or another. 

[billchao]

I'm voting tomorrow morning. Polls open at 6AM.

[iacas]

I unplugged my home phone.

Political calls don't count against the "Do Not Call" Registry, AFAIK.

[Yukari]

I always chose mail-in ballot and vote early. Gets rid of pesky spam calls to vote for their candidate. 

[woodzie264]

1 hour ago, billchao said:

I'm voting tomorrow morning. Polls open at 6AM.

Yep^^^^

[iacas]

I just signed up for nomorobo. Thanks!

[boogielicious]

12 hours ago, iacas said:

I unplugged my home phone.

Political calls don't count against the "Do Not Call" Registry, AFAIK.

But they are robocalls. Norobocall blocks them for me. It has been awesome. The phone rings once and stops.

[dennyjones]

This is what you do with spam phone calls.

[iacas]

1 hour ago, boogielicious said:

But they are robocalls. Norobocall blocks them for me. It has been awesome. The phone rings once and stops.

That's why I signed up.  It worked at least two or three times last night. It still rings once (or partially rings), right?

[ZappyAd]

23 hours ago, RussUK said:

We could do with this here in the UK. I get calls on my mobile. What they do over here is use a number generator to go through all the combinations, as soon as it hits one that connects they call you. As soon as you pick up they have your number confirmed as active and you get loads of cold calls. 

If i dont know the number i cancel the call and google the number.

 

Have you tried tps?  http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

I registered a landline with it once and got no more calls.  The calling organisation has to respect the rules and actively not call anyone on the list but given that prosecutions are now more likely if they break the rules I think it works.

 

[boogielicious]

10 hours ago, iacas said:

That's why I signed up.  It worked at least two or three times last night. It still rings once (or partially rings), right?

Yes. Rings once. 

[Patch]

On 11/7/2016 at 3:54 AM, dennyjones said:

We dumped our land line many years ago.   No spam on the cell phones.  

Yep, we did too. We went the "his & her's" route. Unlimited everything on both. 

[Strandly]

On 11/7/2016 at 6:16 AM, newtogolf said:

In NY we get more spam on our cell phones than we do on our land lines. 

Same thing happened when I moved to Colorado; never got a spam call in my life until I got to that state.

Anyway, I voted about an hour ago.  This has easily been the worst election I've had the mispleasure of participating in.

[Gunther]

I voted too...for the winner.