RK ARCHIVE - How to Lose an Election in Three Easy Weeks!

Along with the absentee ballot application is a card asking me to vote for Mark Allen (R) for the House of Delegates (I don't even live anywhere near the 45th District). Since I already voted absentee (yet another reason the Republican targeting was excellent)- I gave it to my father so he could cast his vote for Paul Ferguson for Clerk of the Court, Mary Hynes and Walter Tejada for County Board, Al Eisenberg for Delegate, and Mary Margaret Whipple for State Senate. THANKS REPUBLICANS!!!

So- Given this excellent strategy by the RPV- I now forecast the new State Senate as 31 Democrats and 9 Republicans :-P

[Update]: In response to "Arlington GOP"- I voted in the Webb/Miller primary at the age of 17 because I was 18 by election day and I voted in the Arlington primary for Treasurer this year (ArlingtonGOP: My birthday is July 14th if you want to send me a present on top of the ballot application). I uploaded the mailer attached to the absentee ballot application:

Note how it asks me to vote for Mark Allen in the 45th District (I don't live in the 45th)

Comments

Are you sure its a real ballot? (True Blue - 10/16/2007 7:54:55 AM)

Could be a dirty trick to get you to throw your vote away. I'd be very wary about using anything the Republican Party provided me with.

I thought the exact same thing (snolan - 10/16/2007 8:03:18 AM)

Take a look at the official state absentee ballot online (comes in PDF format) and carefully compare the two documents...

Seriously!

how to lose an election (changeagent - 10/16/2007 9:16:23 AM)

To James, I find your note very interesting and I question if you are reporting the straight story. I, too, thought that I would give the Absentee Ballot to a neighbor who really needed to request an absentee ballot. However, on the ballot received, my name and address are printed on the ballot. So how how could you give it to your father so he could vote for the candidates you identified?

Or did you "fudge" the truth to fit the point that you were trying to make in this blog?

It was an absentee ballot application... (James Martin - 10/16/2007 10:46:07 AM)

Not an absentee ballot- if the RPV had sent me an absentee ballot- it would probably be a violation of all sorts of Virginia Statues.

How a 19 year old can vote in 2 primaries (cvllelaw - 10/16/2007 10:38:35 AM)

First, you can vote in a primary if you will be 18 on the date of the general election. So if James would have turned 18 before November 8, 2005, he would have been permitted to vote in the 2005 and 2006 primaries, and still be 19 now. Or he could have voted in the 2006 and 2007 primaries, and be 18 now.

ArlGOP doesn't seem to be up on his election law (True Blue - 10/16/2007 10:41:15 AM)

I'm guessing James voted for Webb last year and in the General Assembly primary this year, but that's just an educated guess.

Arlington Republicans have nothing better to do (Lowell - 10/16/2007 11:53:44 AM)

than play silly "gotcha" games with a 19-year-old blogger? No wonder why you guys lose every election in Arlington. Don't you have some taxes to lower or services to cut or something?

Not really.. (ArlGOP - 10/16/2007 12:35:10 PM)

No "gotcha" games, Lowell...just wanted the info in the original post to be correct. Hope young Mr. Martin checks into what happened to his absentee ballot.

Young James (blueweeds - 10/16/2007 4:29:19 PM)

Accused of election fraud, lying about your age, using an alias, posting a fake story ... a pretty good days work :-)

But seriously, I'm gonna have to see some sort of ID before the next Central Committee meeting ... you look like a damn twelve year old.

Exactly my thoughts!! (Doug in Mount Vernon - 10/16/2007 6:16:52 PM)

Next, the Arlington GOP will have Michelle Malkin running around peeping into the windows of young Democrats in Arlington. Either that or they'll be tapping their feet in the local restroom stalls.

I don't do windows...or restrooms (ArlGOP - 10/16/2007 7:45:01 PM)

MARTIN, EDWARD D DR.

ARLINGTON, VA 22203

MARTIN BLANCK AND ASSOCIATES / CONSUL
McCain, John S. (R) (Presidential candidate)
JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC.
$250, 03/21/2007

If you want to say it was my Dad... (James Martin - 10/16/2007 8:22:11 PM)

First off- he's voted in the same Democratic Primaries I have and the letter was address to me... not him :-)

PS- You forgot three:

MARTIN, EDWARD
ARLINGTON,VA 22203
MARTIN, BLANK, AND ASSOCIATES/CONSU
7/1/2006
$250
Webb, James

MARTIN, EDWARD
ARLINGTON,VA 22203
MARTIN, BLANK, AND ASSOCIATES/CONSU
9/30/2006
$250
Webb, James

MARTIN, EDWARD
ARLINGTON,VA 22203
MARTIN, BLANK, AND ASSOCIATES/CONSU
10/23/2006
$500
Webb, James

Absentee Ballot Shame (soccerdem - 10/16/2007 11:46:36 AM)

Hey, at least the RPV HAS the initiative to send out apps for absentee ballots. If you think the Dems usually target voters with greater efficiency than the Republicans, you haven't had much to do with Spottsy. There, despite all efforts on the part of a few members, noone in the County Committee seems to give a rat's tush about it despite, for example, the loss by 325 votes by Deeds for the Attorney General position, a loss that could have easily been reversed by some (any) action by the Committee.

I hope you turn out to be correct in your prognostications!