Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Vote Early & Often

Election Day is FINALLY here.  We've had some drama lately but nothing like years past.  Consider this the election thread.  Yours truly will live blog the elections tonight.  Fire away. 

61 comments:

Anonymous said...

how are the lines in NE Jxn?

Anonymous said...

(1.) I hope more than 25% of eligible voters show up.

(2.) I glad theirs a third candidate for Lt. Governer. I can't stomach
Dilbert or Mcdaniels.

(3.) I tried to call the Rankin County election people to find out
what district I live in, never made contact. No one in the
office. Go Figure.

Anonymous said...

Seeing so many "unopposed" on the ballot is always so discouraging. There has to be better options.

Anonymous said...

Very low turnout in Stankin.

Anonymous said...

I’m seeing low volume in the city. Higher volume in the woods.
There’s gonna be surprises tonight.

Anonymous said...

Hosemann/ McDaniel race gonna be razor thin close. And by that I mean contestable.

Anonymous said...

I don't care about this one. Delbert and McDaniel are both decent. Who is challenging Wicker or Guest in March 2024? Screw those RINOs!!

Anonymous said...

@1:54 PM Find your precinct here: https://myelectionday.sos.state.ms.us/VoterOutreach/Pages/VOSearch.aspx

Anonymous said...

@1:54 - go to the precinct where you vote and tell them which ballot you want. If you dont know your precinct call the circuit clerks office and ask them.

RED said...

@1:59–when is the last time you ran for public office ? So folks that run expose themselves and their family to ridicule and if elected some bozo calls you a crook and says don’t vote for any incumbents. Go figure!!

Anonymous said...

what is the over/under on how many write-in votes will there be in the Rankin SO election. No way I could mark the box for that goon, but he is unopposed. sickening.

Anonymous said...

I vote in NE Jackson just down from Delberts house and the line was fairly long this am

Anonymous said...

One thing is for sure, if McDaniel loses, by any margin, he will cry foul and contest it. It's what he and his supporters do best.

Anonymous said...

I sincerely hope Bailey gets less than 100 votes.
And those 100 people better be blood related to him and still ashamed of themselves.

Anonymous said...

McDaniel will win. His people are organized and like Trump, show up and vote.

If he does win, he will have to show up and actually attempt to do work. He's not that frequently found in Jackson, and will find himself arguing with half of the GOP and the few Dems who will join up and block all his ideas.

Anonymous said...

McDaniel's best hope is low turnout.

Anonymous said...

2:32
Hell that is gonna get interesting!

Anonymous said...

In re write-in votes, @2:32, some years ago now I didn't like any of the candidates in one of our local elections here. I asked the town clerk about writing in someone. She said to me, "Well, who do you want to write in?" And I responded, "That's my business, not yours. I'm only making sure I can write someone in."

And she told me that in Mississippi a write-in choice on a ballot is for use when a candidate dies or removes himself from the election between the time the ballots are printed and the election is held. Otherwise, she said, a write-in vote is not counted.

Now, you and I and some of the rest who browse here all realize that government officials (and cops, but I repeat myself) will lie to your face, so I don't know for certain this is true. But if it's true, the write-in option in Mississippi is not for a voter to make a statement but instead a rarely used, rarely needed convenience for the State.

Anonymous said...

All the Hinds incumbents cover except Gavin. Wanda Evers should cruise.

Anonymous said...

If you waited until today to determine your polling place, you're probably an uniformed voter and weren't going to vote anyway.

Anonymous said...

2:22 nailed it. Wicker and Guest need to go away, fast.

Anonymous said...

Rankin District 62 Jeremy lee for the win.

Anonymous said...

Hey 2:32PM, that is the only race I skipped. Could not vote for Bailey in good conscience.

Anonymous said...

Per Watson in an a.m. phone call 40,000 absentee ballots were cast statewide

Low
Low
Low

Anonymous said...

Gilbert going to kick tin-foil hatted McDaniel's ass.

Anonymous said...

McDaniel, if he wins, will be worthless because he will refuse to work with anyone who doesn't 110% toe the line with him, and most won't work with him because it's his way or the highway. I'm as conservative as can be, but this guy and a lot of his followers are card carrying lunatics. Hell, there was a woman at the Neshoba County Fair with a denim motorcycle vest with an airbrushed picture of him on the back carrying a hunting rifle and it said "Vote McDaniel LT Governor". I don't care how much you like a political candidate, that's just weird and brainwashed.

Anonymous said...

I have gotten a dozen pics from random friends with their write-ins for Bailey. Will be humiliating for him and should be.

Anonymous said...

@2:32 Agree… I wrote in Bo Luckey (not that he’d want it, but I didn’t want to leave it blank)

Anonymous said...

It appears the Patriots will finally be victorious tonight.

Anonymous said...

@2:20 —

Yeah. And the 2020 election was “rigged.”

Hoseman by 12 points.

Anonymous said...

@2:22. Gunn if I had to take a guess.

Anonymous said...

McDaniel might smell like mungus in this hot weather but Hoserman is actively rotting, emitting a veritable petri dish of democrat scum miasma. So I selected the former but not proudly.

Anonymous said...

I feel Gunn will make a move against Wicker! After he failed to get his chairmanship I think he is vulnerable.

Anonymous said...

Voting was brisk in Madison. I did a write-in instead of Bailey as well.

Anonymous said...

Trump won in 2020.

Tip O’Neill said...

2:22 - John Wilcher needs to run against Guest.

RED said...

Tonight we are going to learn how many crazy,I hate people not like me, conspiracy nuts we actually have in Mississippi. It will be the number of rednecks that vote for McDaniel. We would have 4 years of getting nothing done except make Mississippi look stupid AGAIN! And no Im not moving to another state. If Delbert losses we will see the last chance for us to have an intelligent visionary in high office. Only nuts will run.

Anonymous said...

The respective election commissions don't publish names of write in candidates unless it could make a difference. They get tossed aside as unreadable in many jurisdictions. But somebody with some curiosity and time on their hands has the right to request to inspect the ballots. And that would be hilarious.

Anonymous said...

@3:56pm

McDaniel has been laying low and waiting for the right time. Just stop with the "not working" nonsense. There was no point in him discussing/debating, etc. with any of the idiot RINOs in office. A true conservative movement is galvanizing - and they will ALL be called racist, asshole haters, etc. etc. the entire time - but the silent majority agree with their values - even Blacks, Browns, and Hispanics. We need bareknuckle leadership to fight for real conservatism, or it's over.

Anonymous said...

@4:31

Ewwww

Anonymous said...

Had to go cast my vote in the democrat primary in south Jackson. Looked like very, very low turnout.

As per usual, the poll workers tried to steer me to the republican table because I'm white. As if voting in the GOP primary in Hinds isn't a complete waste of my time and theirs! Anywho...

My reason for voting was to support Blount and Tyrone. Not because they're perfect, but because I believe their challengers to be crooks. Of course I also supported Eddie Fair, Wanda Evers, and Charles Stokes.

Disappointed to see so many seats uncontested though. Guess it's hard to get good people to run anymore, knowing the smear jobs that will be perpetrated against them and their family.

Anonymous said...

I also voted for McDaniel. I considered it a protest vote against Hosemann.
I am not, however, proud of my vote today.

Anonymous said...

@5:02 I am a person of color (Fil-Am, like Michelle Malkin)and I am voting for McDaniel. No thinking person is buying the uniparty paradigm anymore. So are you a Democrat shill or aa RINO shill?

Anonymous said...

I’m hoping Bryan Bailey gets less than 100 votes and gets the message and resigns. It would’ve been more honorable to resign before the election. But better late than never.

Anonymous said...

5:13, laying low? I guess you don’t follow his social media. Dude hasn’t shut up since he lost the first and second time. All he does is trash talk and makes no mention of what he will do, except trash talk his opponent. Praise the lord Mrs. Hoseman isn’t in St. Catherine’s Village.

Anonymous said...

I didn't realize we have a State Surveyor until I voted today at my Raymond precinct. There was only one choice anyway, so why not. In the past, I've had ballots rejected by the scanner because I didn't vote in enough contests - either I didn't care about a particular race or didn't know annythong about any of the candidates. So I had to vote anyway in those races just so the machine would accept my ballot. Congrats to the Surveyor, whoever he is & whatever he does.

Anonymous said...

4:51 Bailey isn’t an option in Madison unless you’re talking about Brent Bailey

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
"Voting was brisk in Madison. I did a write-in instead of Bailey as well."

August 8, 2023 at 4:51 PM

Is Michael Bailey, the guy running for Constable in Madison County related to Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey? Michael Bailey is running against Whoever "Taco" Whoever (I kid you not.)

Anonymous said...

5:46, exactly the type of crazy 5:02 was talking about

Anonymous said...

"Voting was brisk in Madison. I did a write-in instead of Bailey as well."

Hate to tell you this, Cletus, but if you voted in Madison, Bailey was not on your ballot.

Anonymous said...

"(2.) I glad theirs a third candidate for Lt. Governer. I can't stomach
Dilbert or Mcdaniels."

Please assure me you're not the typical voter in your precinct.

Anonymous said...

No way in hell I could blacken in the circle for Lynn Fitch, so I wasted my time and wrote my name in.

Amazing how poorly trained some of these workers are. I noticed a sign on each polling pedestal. It read: "Nobody allowed in voting area other than the voter. If you need assistance, a poll worker will assist you".

I told two poll workers that sign is not legal and if I'm disabled I can have a person of my choosing assist me. Both of them said, "First I've ever heard of that!"

Anonymous said...

Also did a write in for Rankin Co Sheriff.

Anonymous said...

Just voted and voted for McDaniel!

Hookah said...

Can a supervisor on a ballot bring breakfast to the poll workers?

Anonymous said...

What in the world is going on with Mary Hawkins endorsing McDaniel on facebook? Did anyone else see the post with her live?

Anonymous said...

The issue I had hope to see was restoration of voter initiate. Nobody is making it a key plank of their platform.

Anonymous said...

Is it possible someone could run a write in campaign against Rankin Bailey for the general election in November?

Anonymous said...

So Kingfish, if Bailey resigns or is removed before the general election, what happens? What happens after the general election and he wins, then if he resigns or is removed? Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Off topic of statewide elections, but since when was the last time a county tax collector campaigned like a statewide position? The one in Rankin county is about obnoxious. She’ll most likely win, but damn, go sit down somewhere. #teamtaxcollector. I hope she gets rocked on her heels tonight.

Anonymous said...

All Bailey did is to cost the taxpayers even more money. Now they will have to pay for a special election when he gets hauled away. You have to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.



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