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Whatthe_Firetruck

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33. My hubby is progressive...

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 07:09 PM

Oct 29

...but has no tolerance for the research. Since we agree on the issues. I look everything and everyone up and fill out my ballot. Then he marks his the same.

This time, there was a race with two republicans, I thought about not voting for the race, but we decided to split it. Each of us voted for a different one to cancel them out.

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My Florida poll watching experience - the MAGA mens' fear is real! [View all] mcar Oct 29 OP

Spooked maybe but also very controlling of their wives. StarryNite Oct 29 #1

So creepy mcar Oct 29 #7

Thanks for the story! I choose to take heart from it. LAS14 Oct 29 #2

Good point mcar Oct 29 #8

Kind of like this (2016) Aviation Pro Oct 29 #3

Yep! mcar Oct 29 #9

You are misinterpreting this. He's copying her answers like he learned to do in school. Intractable Oct 29 #12

Booths need to be further apart or arranged differently. LiberalFighter Oct 29 #31

The Lincoln Project dropped an ad on this yesterday. carpetbagger Oct 29 #4

Boom!! Saw it yesterday. Freat ad. Love the older women's approving looks at the end. EarnestPutz Oct 29 #6

From an opposite perspective, I am 99.99% sure that my ex-wife is voting for Trump... Jack Valentino Oct 29 #44

Love It!!!!!! bdamomma Oct 29 #52

WOW. Voting truth to power. chia Oct 29 #56

We need to go back to curtains around the individual booths. Clouds Passing Oct 29 #5

The booths at this early vote location mcar Oct 29 #10

Our booths are touching 🥺 way too close Clouds Passing Oct 29 #11

should send obvious couples to booths far apart sdfernando Oct 29 #17

our booths touch too; they share a divider panel. and why they are called booths when they are anything but is beyond me Native Oct 30 #59

It is unnerving. Clouds Passing Oct 30 #63

Controlling assholes Sky Jewels Oct 29 #13

Thanks for keeping watch, mcar. brer cat Oct 29 #14

Happy to say it was mostly boring mcar Oct 29 #15

Is this like the villages? HagathaCrispy Oct 29 #16

We are Villages-adjacent. Citrus County mcar Oct 29 #24

I am sorry. HagathaCrispy Oct 29 #32

That's about the size of it mcar Oct 29 #34

Same here in Marion County adjacent Villages for the most part radical noodle Oct 30 #62

Yes. They seem to feel very comfortable in Florida. Mariana Oct 29 #36

This makes me feel funny. Linda ladeewolf Oct 29 #18

My husband and I did same mcar Oct 29 #25

I'm the research point person in our family. slightlv Oct 29 #27

My husband and I did this with our absentee ballots this year. NH Ethylene Oct 29 #30

My hubby is progressive... Whatthe_Firetruck Oct 29 #33

I usually do the research Linda ladeewolf Oct 29 #35

Controlling behavior which is abusive. Fuck 'em. Evolve Dammit Oct 29 #19

Wish every polling place automatically sent couples to booths well apart from each other MLAA Oct 29 #20

This is an argument against mail-in ballots. Demobrat Oct 29 #21

It is sad, and a form of control. erronis Oct 29 #22

Democratic turnout in Dade county is underperforming Aviation Pro Oct 29 #23

Yeah, WTF is going on there? mcar Oct 29 #38

Maga men also suck. Joinfortmill Oct 29 #26

If I tried to tell Herself how to vote, it would go badly for me. TomSlick Oct 29 #28

On election night, depending on how things go, we may need to check in with family and friends. Yavin4 Oct 29 #29

A family activity Metaphorical Oct 29 #37

They should separate husbands and wives so they are not next to each other in the voting booth. I like Jmb 4 Harris-Walz Oct 29 #39

I agree mcar Oct 29 #40

I have NEVER voted with my husband LeftInTX Oct 29 #41

The other odd thing I noted mcar Oct 29 #43

I'd never let a man or woman control my vote vercetti2021 Oct 29 #42

Even if not MAGAT, that kind of controlling behavior is unacceptable. iemanja Oct 29 #46

Imagine being married to that iemanja Oct 29 #45

It was setting off all kinds of alarms with me mcar Oct 29 #48

Yikes! In GA, we get a printout with our votes showing ecstatic Oct 29 #47

Yikes is right mcar Oct 29 #49

Yes, we feed it in too, but at the front area. If a line has formed ecstatic Oct 29 #50

Oh yes, ours is same. Voters are given a folder mcar Oct 29 #53

They should be.... paleotn Oct 29 #51

This is what I'm thinking mcar Oct 29 #54

SpookY!!! elleng Oct 29 #55

The fight continues! louslobbs Oct 29 #57

The men might've seen this video from the Lincoln Project SupportSanity Oct 29 #58

I noticed people on either side of me peeking, but I was prepared, many judges and such and was done in 2m. Brainfodder Oct 30 #60

scared witless poozwah Oct 30 #61

The little "walls" need to be a lot higher so it would not be possible... 3catwoman3 Oct 30 #64