Just got back.

[RP 247]

We had good support for Paul but here's where it gets interesting. Approved speakers were supposed to get 10 minutes. This morning they said speeches would be restricted to 5 minutes. One of our keen-eyed Paul supporters saw people taking and turning in multiple ballots (up to 20 in one case, according to him). He witnessed people not checking in (you have to be registered) and just taking a ballot anyway.

did you guys have red stickers? when we checked in, the person gave you one red sticker that you put on your ballot.

Anyone could have easily filled out multiple ballots since they were just handing out stacks of them, but without the red sticker they wouldn't have counted.

 

[RoyalShock]

Yes, but they didn't tell us to put it on the ballot. Only that if you didn't have a sticker, you wouldn't get a ballot. So people wore the stickers. They ran out of stickers and started marking hands with an "X" in black ink.

I think after the first session, they got lazy. That's the only conclusion I can come up with.

 

[Bubba]

I just got back, and people were angry at me for wearing my gigantic Ron Paul shark costume because I knocked someone over when I couldn't see where I was moving.

LOL

All press is good press

Leaving home without your handler? Priceless

 

[Aldanga]

Yes, but they didn't tell us to put it on the ballot. Only that if you didn't have a sticker, you wouldn't get a ballot. So people wore the stickers. They ran out of stickers and started marking hands with an "X" in black ink.

I think after the first session, they got lazy. That's the only conclusion I can come up with.

Those ballots better get thrown out.

 

[Bubba]

Ahh...ok im crying now....and the shark suit signifies what exactly?

I'm crying too. It's hard to read the small type through the tears because my head is bobbing as well.

I heard about a post for a guy that was all fuelled up on brewskis and converted about 28? people in a McDonald's but I can't find the thread.

Laugh out LOUD!

I sure hope there's Shark vid out there. Add some Jaws music and we have a new RP mascot! However, might look like you're a little bit "tipsy" instead. Did you eat at McDonald's first?

Anyway, I trust you managed to make it look like it was natural for a giant rubber shark to fall on someone. Or, was it open-jawed like an SNL shark Candygram and you swallowed them head-first?

 

[angelatc]

I just got back, and people were angry at me for wearing my gigantic Ron Paul shark costume because I knocked someone over when I couldn't see where I was moving.

I'm so tired of being polite. That's funny. I hope it wasn't an old lady who broke a hip I guess...

 

[Shingen]

I thought the whole system was kinda screwy.

First, they didn't have me in their database either (as I am a first time voter but reged in early Dec). I had brought my Kansas Registration Card along with picture ID, and a very nice lady there in charge said I was good to go.

She then gave out Red paper stickers and said "You can't cast your vote without this sticker".

I inquired, "What good is this sticker? Would we all be voting on electronic vending machines, or by paper ballot?"

She replied, "Oh no, this is much better then those machines." and quickly sent me on my way.

I then found out, that once I entered the building, I could not leave, and if I did leave (ie: to walk outside to have a smoke, since it's almost a capital offense to smoke inside anymore), I could not re-enter and thereby lost my vote! Who makes up these rules and what country do I live in again?

So, after about 2 hours (without a smoke I might add), and being corraled around like cattle, they had us all single-file lined towards 4 ballot boxes for roughly 4000 people. The ballets were simple paper cards with the canidates names, that you place a check mark next to. You then place your sticker, on the ballot and place it in the box.

However, there's no way for me now to go back and prove how I voted.

Shouldn't each vote have the name, address, and social securitry number for each person voting, on the ballot? Like a legal document? Isn't my vote for the Republic Candidate, in written form, a legal document?

I'm confused.

Maybe it was because Kansas hasn't had a caucaus in 20 years. But the more I think about it, the less I like the system. It seems to be engineered for fraud.

 

[RP 247]

^^ I was thinking the same thing. I think they should have at least made people sign their name to the ballot, so we could prove that we voted.