Season's Greetings: Election Day

Season's Greetings: Election Day   I bid you A Happy Election Day. Remember to get out and VOTE!!!!! Election Day in the United States is the day set by law for the election of public officials. It occurs on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The earliest possible date is November 2 and the latest possible date is November 8. Election Day is November 2, 2010 this year. The following election days are November 8, 2011, November 6, 2012, November 5, 2013, and November 4, 2014. For federal offices (President, Vice President, and United States Congress), Election Day occurs only in even-numbered years. Presidential elections are held every four years, in years evenly divisible by four, in which electors for President and Vice President are chosen according to the method determined by each state. Elections to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate are held every two years; all Representatives serve two-year terms and are up for election every two years, while Senators serve six-year terms, staggered so that one-third of Senators are elected in any given general election. General elections in which presidential candidates are not on the ballot are referred to as midterm elections. Terms for those elected begin in January the following year; the President and Vice President are inaugurated ("sworn in") on Inauguration Day, usually January 20. Many state and local government offices are also elected on Election Day as a matter of convenience and cost saving, although a handful of states hold elections for state offices (such as governor) during odd-numbered "off years." Congress has mandated a uniform date for presidential (3 U.S.C. § 1) and congressional (2 U.S.C. § 1 and 2 U.S.C. § 7) elections, though early voting is nonetheless authorized in many states. In Oregon, where all elections are vote-by-mail, all ballots must be received by a set time on Election Day, as is common with absentee ballots in most states (except overseas military ballots which receive more time by federal law). In the state of Washington, where most counties are vote-by-mail (and in the others most votes are cast by mail as permanent absentee ballots), ballots need only be postmarked by Election Day. Election Day is a civic holiday in some states, including Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. Some other states require that workers be permitted to take time off from employment without loss of pay. California Elections Code Section 14000 provides that employees otherwise unable to vote must be allowed two hours off with pay, at the beginning or end of a shift. History By federal law since 1792, the U.S. Congress permitted the states to conduct their presidential elections (or otherwise to choose their Electors) any time in a 34-day period before the first Wednesday of December, which was the day set for the meeting of the Electors of the U.S. president and vice-president (the Electoral College), in their respective states. An election date in November was seen as useful because the harvest would have been completed (important in an agrarian society) and the winter storms would not yet have begun in earnest (a plus in the days before paved roads and snowplows). However, in this arrangement the states that voted later could be influenced by a candidate's victories in the states that voted earlier, a problem later exacerbated by improved communications via train and telegraph. In close elections, the states that voted last might well determine the outcome. A uniform date for choosing presidential Electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845. Many theories have been advanced as to why the Congress settled on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The actual reasons, as shown in records of Congressional debate on the bill in December 1844, were fairly prosaic. The bill initially set the national day for choosing presidential Electors on "the first Tuesday in November," in years divisible by four (1848, 1852, etc.). But it was pointed out that in some years the period between the first Tuesday in November and the first Wednesday in December (when the electors met in their state capitals to vote) would be more than 34 days, in violation of the existing Electoral College law. So, the bill was amended to move the national date for choosing presidential Electors forward to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, a date scheme already used in the state of New York. In 1845, the United States was largely an agrarian society. Farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns. Ray Stevens - Throw the Bums Out - RayStevens.com  Well you're on the wrong side of the American voter All you RINO's liberals middle-of-the-roaders. You're so out of touch... no clue what we're all about. Hey America! What you say? Let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!) Let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!) Well you've been playing both sides against the middle class Flying in your private jets burning that gas Off to Copenhagen while the future of the country's in doubt. Throw the bums out! Yeah and start all over again. Cut up that Congressional credit card; My wallet's not an ATM! Let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!) Yeah let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!) Well Obama's tax man cheats on his own taxes Congress won't read the bill but insists that it passes Let's see those "shovel-ready" jobs My doctor's gonna need one now. Hey America! What you say? Let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!) Throw the bums out! And vote some patriots in. Cut up that Congressional credit card; My wallet's not an ATM! Let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!) Yeah let's throw the bums out! (Throw the bums out!)...   Ray Stevens - We The People - RayStevens.com   It's gonna be a big heart breaker, Grandma needs a new pace maker, And the doctor says, "I realize she's ill, But there's talk of legislation, on all our medication, and maybe all we can do is put her on a pain pill." Whoa, me! Hey, Congress! You vote Obamacare, We're gonna vote you outta there! We the People have awakened to your tricks. You vote to let this pass, You'll be out on your ____! 'Cause we the people have awakened… And to put it in words you might understand, if you had the common sense that God gave a billy goat, you'd no doubt noticed that your constituents, the electorate – that's us, voters – are onto your pork-barrel-special-interest-tax-and-spend-scam. Or, to put it more succinctly, "Heh, heh, heh, Pfffffffffffffffffffft!" We've heard from Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh, What you've got in mind for Grandma, And we found this O'Reilly fella on Fox. We're kinda like Joe the Plumber, And when we crunch the numbers, It all adds up to votin' you out at the ballot box! Heh heh heh heh… You vote Obamacare, We're gonna vote you outta there! We the People have awakened to your tricks. You vote to let this pass, You'll be out on your ____! 'Cause we the people have awakened… And to put it mildly, we're harboring feelings of extreme alienation, due to copious amounts of horse manure that have been shoveled out of the White House AND the Capitol Building, and we sense that we are being royally defecated upon. (Ha ha!) Yeah, we're getting' the impression that you think we are not relevant to these proceedings, and dismissing our input into the situation. Please tell Nancy Pelosi, We're gonna do the Hokey Pokey, Put the "right" ones in, Pull the "left" ones out. You vote Obamacare, We're gonna vote you outta there! We the People have awakened to your tricks. You vote to let this pass, You'll be out on your ____! Yeah, we the people have awakened… And you might want to start looking for another line of work. How 'bout the medical profession? Ha ha. Yeah, they're gonna need every one that can put up with the red tape and the pay cut. Hey, why don't you kill every last job, tax every last penny, and infringe on every God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?! 'Cause let me tell you, ain't NOBODY happy with you! We the People have awakened… And it occurs to me that you might really like it down in Venezuela!   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895 "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895  "I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock  "TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003  "EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS MySpace.com: www.myspace.com/carlraylouk http://www.myspace.com/carlraylouk Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : LouksHauntedGraveyardhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/LouksHauntedGraveyard/ Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk/