For Massachusetts residents (sorry, everyone else): Did you vote today?

VOTE!! VOTE!! It is your right and duty as a citizen. It is your ticket to dog about the government! Everyone should vote! VOTE!!

Thank you for your indulgence; I shall endeavor to calm down now.

Nope...I can't.

Yes, and I was sooo proud of myself.

I'm not listed as a member of a particular party (Democrat, Republican, etc.)...I thought you had to be a party member to vote in a party primary?

No, I have not. I doubt that I will be able to either. I simply don't have time. This is the first Primary that I will not cast a vote since I started voting.

The media failed to whip me into a frenzy, so I didn't bother.

I tend not to vote in primaries unless a presidential candidate is involved. I do vote in annual elections regularly, though.

Vote!

***doom, if you register Independent, they ask you whether you want the Democratic or Republican ballot and you can choose either.

Just moved and had no time to register at new location. ***lizzie they make you declare one or the other then they hand you a democratic or republican ballot. ***Timmi, the only problem is I typically want to vote for candidates in both parties, I may care more about which republican wins in one office and which democrat wins in an other so that means if that candidate that I like for gov. is democrat but I have the republican ballot I cannot vote for that person so I either leave the choice blank of pick one I don't care for.

Timmi - When I lived in Massachusetts, there was an Independent Voters Party so if you were registered Independent then you could only vote in the Independent Voters Party primary. To get the effect you describe, you had to be "unenrolled". Of course the situation may have changed since then.

California (here, to me) just started open primaries this June. So now we can attempt to throw the primary of the "other" party if we feel so inclined. I didn't notice any major change in the outcomes.

I bet you all thought this was me, but I was out in Alaska. So in fact my SO and I voted last week, using absentee ballots, which I notice wasn't a choice :)

it's a primary, and I don't know any of the candidates

Yes. But I didn't vote in the right district because I moved in the 20 days before election day and my new housing situation wasn't assured until the day before I moved. Partly for this reason (for really local races) and partly because I was lame (for races that included my new and old locations) I didn't research all of the local races, and so for the first time ever I didn't completely fill out the ballot.

For those of you who live in the 8th congressional district: this was the election; the Republicans do not intend to seriously challenge Capuano, and the third parties have no realistic chance (this isn't Vermont). For those of you who don't and think this is a liberal shoo-in, we had more political spectrum represented -- with a realistic chance of winning -- in just the primary than most districts see in all.

So far I have voted far more often by absentee ballot (11 times, I think) than in person (4 times, I think). In all, silly, not just in this election.