2016 Postmortem

RBInMaine

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6. The one consolation about the school budget vote is it prevents another attempt at TABOR.

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 07:36 PM

Oct 2016

Remember TABOR, the Maine Heritage Center/Grover Norquist attempts to tie our budgets in knots and gut needed services? Well, with the school budget vote law, we can say we have a method in place to give voters some voice on that which is 60% of the local budget which is essentially a TABOR type law. So all in all, I have to say I support that. And for the most part people support the schools and they get passed. Occasionally a town has to tweak the budget and then do a re-vote.

I love our early voting system. So easy. Yeah, I like to vote early so I don't have to deal with lines at the polls. Like you I vote in person for local items and primaries.

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Voted early today in Maine. We have absentee vote by mail. Anyone can do it. [View all] RBInMaine Oct 2016 OP

Early voting is great. I really recommend it. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #1

I wish Pennsylvania would join the 21st century. femmocrat Oct 2016 #2

Do you actually have to provide an excuse for why you need an absentee ballot? Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #4

I think so... femmocrat Oct 2016 #8

Do you mean same-day registration and voting? Do you have any early voting, or just election day? RBInMaine Oct 2016 #9

There is voting on one day, Nov. 8. femmocrat Oct 2016 #10

Also in Maine Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #3

The one consolation about the school budget vote is it prevents another attempt at TABOR. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #6

Depends on the city you live in. Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #11

I hear you. Then they get teachers who don't stay and schools in crap condition. Their loss. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #13

Mail-in ballots in Arizona, to which I moved from Maine many years ago, are postage paid royable Oct 2016 #5

The word goes out to put two stamps on them. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #7

They actually said in the directions for the Lewiston ballot Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #12

Yup. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #14