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[tlynn78]

I think they should switch things up and give us the day after the election off. I'm going to be up late tonight, looks like.

[BackInTex]

I’ve got to leave the house at 6:30 in the morning to fly to Miami. I’m thinking the Wi-Fi won’t be working on the plane thus I’ll be offline for the entire flight.

[Beebs52]

I slept on the ottoman last night because grands were coming over plus cleaning guru, really early. Thunderstorms all night. I am a vegetable and shall sleep til whatever happens.

[tlynn78]

I’ve got to leave the house at 6:30 in the morning to fly to Miami. I’m thinking the Wi-Fi won’t be working on the plane thus I’ll be offline for the entire flight.

Safe travels

[tlynn78]

A good day. I got more votes than anyone else in the county! Granted, I was unopposed, but so were half of our 8 judges and a handful of others.

[Ritterskoop]

A good day. I got more votes than anyone else in the county! Granted, I was unopposed, but so were half of our 8 judges and a handful of others.

Do you have an opinion, as someone in the race, whether it is a smart move for voters to wade through pages of unopposed candidates? I don't care about their parties; it takes two clicks or taps to vote for these folks or to skip over them, so why have them on the ballot?

I ask with all the best of intentions of wanting to learn.

[flockofseagulls104]

A good day. I got more votes than anyone else in the county! Granted, I was unopposed, but so were half of our 8 judges and a handful of others.

Do you have an opinion, as someone in the race, whether it is a smart move for voters to wade through pages of unopposed candidates? I don't care about their parties; it takes two clicks or taps to vote for these folks or to skip over them, so why have them on the ballot?

I ask with all the best of intentions of wanting to learn.

My county is controlled by the democrat machine. I have no County or State representation. Every county and state position is controlled by democrats. They appoint democrats. They hire democrats. Their staff hires democrats. They recruit democrats for volunteer positions and ignore republicans. And they are assured of a great many democrat votes whether they campaign or not. Seeing the unopposed races on the ballot reminds me, at least, of that fact.

Once again, we did not win any local races. But we increased our vote share and helped Trump win GA.

[BackInTex]

A good day. I got more votes than anyone else in the county! Granted, I was unopposed, but so were half of our 8 judges and a handful of others.

Do you have an opinion, as someone in the race, whether it is a smart move for voters to wade through pages of unopposed candidates? I don't care about their parties; it takes two clicks or taps to vote for these folks or to skip over them, so why have them on the ballot?

I ask with all the best of intentions of wanting to learn.

They have to get at least one vote to be elected, else they tie with everyone else. And there could be write-ins. Not voting for them could and should be viewed as a protest against. I always go down the ballot. I had many uncontested races, including my US Representative Roger Williams. He got 100% of the 262,087 votes cast. No write-ins.

[tlynn78]

A good day. I got more votes than anyone else in the county! Granted, I was unopposed, but so were half of our 8 judges and a handful of others.

Do you have an opinion, as someone in the race, whether it is a smart move for voters to wade through pages of unopposed candidates? I don't care about their parties; it takes two clicks or taps to vote for these folks or to skip over them, so why have them on the ballot?

I ask with all the best of intentions of wanting to learn.

Well, first let me say, this is Montana. We don't have 'pages of unopposed candidates' - one page ballot, front and back. No 'clicks or taps' either, it's a hand-filled ballot.
Why have them? Well I imagine that it is possible to - i guess it would be called 'fail to confirm' or some such. In my case the choice was me or a write-in. In the case of the judges, it was a yes or no to retain and I think there was a space for a write-in candidate.
I've never seen an unopposed judicial candidate get more 'no' votes than 'yes' votes, although all four got well over 10k 'no' votes. I have no idea what would happen in that case. I do know of a Clerk in a (much) smaller county who won a write-in campaign.
While I don't particularly like being at the back end of the ballot, I think it makes sense.

I get the tediousness of wading through a lot, but it must be as it's laid out in the state's constitution and statute.

[Beebs52]

BTW, congrats!

[tlynn78]

BTW, congrats!

Thank you!

[Ritterskoop]

A good day. I got more votes than anyone else in the county! Granted, I was unopposed, but so were half of our 8 judges and a handful of others.

Do you have an opinion, as someone in the race, whether it is a smart move for voters to wade through pages of unopposed candidates? I don't care about their parties; it takes two clicks or taps to vote for these folks or to skip over them, so why have them on the ballot?

I ask with all the best of intentions of wanting to learn.

Well, first let me say, this is Montana. We don't have 'pages of unopposed candidates' - one page ballot, front and back. No 'clicks or taps' either, it's a hand-filled ballot.
Why have them? Well I imagine that it is possible to - i guess it would be called 'fail to confirm' or some such. In my case the choice was me or a write-in. In the case of the judges, it was a yes or no to retain and I think there was a space for a write-in candidate.
I've never seen an unopposed judicial candidate get more 'no' votes than 'yes' votes, although all four got well over 10k 'no' votes. I have no idea what would happen in that case. I do know of a Clerk in a (much) smaller county who won a write-in campaign.
While I don't particularly like being at the back end of the ballot, I think it makes sense.

I get the tediousness of wading through a lot, but it must be as it's laid out in the state's constitution and statute.

The notion of write-ins is the answer, thanks. For the record, I did in fact vote for all of the unopposed judges on my ballot. But I saw that it was tiring on my 88-year-old roommate, is why I asked.

We can make small sacrifices for a thriving democracy.

[tlynn78]

Do you have an opinion, as someone in the race, whether it is a smart move for voters to wade through pages of unopposed candidates? I don't care about their parties; it takes two clicks or taps to vote for these folks or to skip over them, so why have them on the ballot?

I ask with all the best of intentions of wanting to learn.

Well, first let me say, this is Montana. We don't have 'pages of unopposed candidates' - one page ballot, front and back. No 'clicks or taps' either, it's a hand-filled ballot.
Why have them? Well I imagine that it is possible to - i guess it would be called 'fail to confirm' or some such. In my case the choice was me or a write-in. In the case of the judges, it was a yes or no to retain and I think there was a space for a write-in candidate.
I've never seen an unopposed judicial candidate get more 'no' votes than 'yes' votes, although all four got well over 10k 'no' votes. I have no idea what would happen in that case. I do know of a Clerk in a (much) smaller county who won a write-in campaign.
While I don't particularly like being at the back end of the ballot, I think it makes sense.

I get the tediousness of wading through a lot, but it must be as it's laid out in the state's constitution and statute.

The notion of write-ins is the answer, thanks. For the record, I did in fact vote for all of the unopposed judges on my ballot. But I saw that it was tiring on my 88-year-old roommate, is why I asked.

We can make small sacrifices for a thriving democracy.

Indeed.