<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Don't Forget to Vote : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Don't Forget to Vote : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-19T04:43:29+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Don't Forget to Vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/5307/1/" /><id>5307</id><summary><![CDATA[Don't Forget to Vote]]></summary><issued>2006-11-07T04:02:56+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-07T04:02:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hope this isn't too late.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tennessee constable wins election with ONE vote ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/72008/1/" /><id>72008</id><summary><![CDATA[Tennessee constable wins election with ONE vote ]]></summary><issued>2008-08-11T14:00:37+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-11T14:00:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not just BY one vote - WITH one vote.<br/><br/><div class='qp pad d'><i>Her husband didn&#8217;t think she would win</i></div> Obviously, or else she would have had TWO votes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How We Used To Vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80922/1/" /><id>80922</id><summary><![CDATA[How We Used To Vote]]></summary><issued>2008-11-03T10:37:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-03T10:37:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In 1859 they tried to fix elections a different way. On George Kyle's way to the polls he was attacked by men with knives, guns, and bricks. His brother died from attacks. He survived but didn't get to vote. When his candidate lost and he contested the election. Congress basically said a &quot;real man&quot; would have managed to vote.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Wasted Vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80572/1/" /><id>80572</id><summary><![CDATA[A Wasted Vote]]></summary><issued>2008-10-29T21:35:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-29T21:35:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When asked why they will not vote for a third party candidate, many people will respond by saying something like, &quot;He cannot win.&quot; Or, &quot;I don't want to waste my vote.&quot; It is true: America has not elected a third party candidate since 1860. Does that mean, however, that every vote cast for one of the two major party candidates is not a wasted vote? I don't think so.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vote or Die - Literally!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/5367/1/" /><id>5367</id><summary><![CDATA[Vote or Die - Literally!]]></summary><issued>2006-11-07T23:47:58+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-07T23:47:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Follow up to <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://plime.com/politics/l/5352/1/" rel="nofollow">http://plime.com/politics/l/5352/1/</a></div> <br/>Poll worker choked voter trying to force him to vote in a judicial race that the voter didn't want to vote on. Possibly even more entertaining are the comments below the story.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Florida plan would give voters 'no vote']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17752/1/" /><id>17752</id><summary><![CDATA[Florida plan would give voters 'no vote']]></summary><issued>2007-04-24T23:09:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-24T23:09:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A state legislator in Florida wants voters to have a &quot;none of the above&quot; option to avoid questionable election outcomes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Chicago woman, 114, registers to vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/46105/1/" /><id>46105</id><summary><![CDATA[Chicago woman, 114, registers to vote]]></summary><issued>2008-01-05T03:58:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-05T03:58:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners visited a 114-year-old woman who registered to vote on Thursday. It was also her birthday, according to her family, who cite a family Bible as evidence of her birth date.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Good to be in DC]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41011/1/" /><id>41011</id><summary><![CDATA[Good to be in DC]]></summary><issued>2007-11-08T01:02:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-08T01:02:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In honor of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/webvideo/l/40847/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This Land</a>, I present you with it's sequel. A bit last election, but it's dead on. So, make sure to vote in next election.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vote card sent to dead president]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/4181/1/" /><id>4181</id><summary><![CDATA[Vote card sent to dead president]]></summary><issued>2006-10-23T21:25:07+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-23T21:25:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic has been invited to vote in an upcoming referendum, despite having died while awaiting trial in March.<br/><br/>And the fact he was arrested by the international tribunal for war crimes apparently didn't matter either.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Whom do I vote for?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/30552/1/" /><id>30552</id><summary><![CDATA[Whom do I vote for?]]></summary><issued>2007-08-07T14:30:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-07T14:30:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Don't have a clue?  Me neither.<br/><br/>Pick the candidate that supports the issues you support or opposes the issues you oppose -- or just be a sheep and vote for the one that your friends like.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dog registered to vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/25805/1/" /><id>25805</id><summary><![CDATA[Dog registered to vote]]></summary><issued>2007-06-30T19:05:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-30T19:05:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Duncan the dog is still registered to vote, and his owner isn't pleased.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The kids have closed their election]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79727/1/" /><id>79727</id><summary><![CDATA[The kids have closed their election]]></summary><issued>2008-10-17T17:57:56+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-17T17:57:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[And they've guessed the president correctly since 1940.*<br/><br/>*except for the Nixon/Kennedy election in 1960 and Bush/Gore in 2000.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[I Didn't Vote For Obama ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81135/1/" /><id>81135</id><summary><![CDATA[I Didn't Vote For Obama ]]></summary><issued>2008-11-05T21:52:49+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-05T21:52:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Oh, I went to the voting booth.  I signed, was given my stub, and was walked over to a voting machine.  I cast votes for statewide races and a state referendum on water and sewer improvements.<br/><br/>I stood there, and I thought about all of these people, who influenced my life so greatly.  But I didn't vote for who would be the 44th President of the United States.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Young Feminist Split: Does Gender Matter?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/46885/1/" /><id>46885</id><summary><![CDATA[Young Feminist Split: Does Gender Matter?]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T11:26:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T11:26:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton visited her Alma-mater Wellesley College, an all female liberal arts school, where an Important debate has been sparked between feminists... <br/><br/>Do you vote for a woman to shatter the glass ceiling and further the cause? <b>Or</b> do you make an empowered, individual decision that is not confined by gender?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Dawning of a New Era]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/49498/1/" /><id>49498</id><summary><![CDATA[The Dawning of a New Era]]></summary><issued>2008-02-05T12:02:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-05T12:02:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[PLEASE write in your primary vote for this candidate!  We NEED REAL CHANGE!!  Do not listen to the mainstream candidates! They do not know what change is.  Vote for this one and your life WILL. BE. CHANGED.  I <b>personally</b> guarantee it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Council incumbent misses re-election by one vote -- guess whose it was?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41299/1/" /><id>41299</id><summary><![CDATA[Council incumbent misses re-election by one vote -- guess whose it was?]]></summary><issued>2007-11-10T17:49:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-10T17:49:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bill Monroe lost by one vote in his bid to return to the Winchester City Council, and here's the clincher to the squeaker of a race: His wife didn't vote.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pakistanis Vote Amid Fears Of Violence]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/51043/1/" /><id>51043</id><summary><![CDATA[Pakistanis Vote Amid Fears Of Violence]]></summary><issued>2008-02-18T05:45:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-18T05:45:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Pakistanis fearful of militant attacks voted Monday for a new parliament in a key step toward democracy after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf, whose political survival hangs in the balance.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What about the rest?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81087/1/" /><id>81087</id><summary><![CDATA[What about the rest?]]></summary><issued>2008-11-05T10:42:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-05T10:42:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yeah, yeah. Obama won. But some of you didn't vote for him OR for McCain. Here's a constantly updating list of how many votes every presidential candidate - all 24 of them - received in the election.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Does your vote really count?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80920/1/" /><id>80920</id><summary><![CDATA[Does your vote really count?]]></summary><issued>2008-11-03T08:59:37+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-03T08:59:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Voting for president and having your ballot be the deciding one cast - statistically, that is like trying to hit the lottery. The odds for the average person are 60 million to 1 against it, a study shows.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hacking Democracy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52138/1/" /><id>52138</id><summary><![CDATA[Hacking Democracy]]></summary><issued>2008-02-26T15:06:18+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-26T15:06:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I looked to see if anyone had posted this DVD yet and couldn't find it. <br/><br/>This is about the Diebold machines and the last election, which is directly related to today's link from the Onion: <br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/humor/l/52070/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/entertainment/humor/l/52070/1/</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Black Box Voting]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40197/1/" /><id>40197</id><summary><![CDATA[Black Box Voting]]></summary><issued>2007-10-31T19:07:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-31T19:07:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparently election fraud is bad and we should stop it.]]></content></entry></feed>