Danny at Beltway Blogroll on the blogosphere’s willingness to discuss how they voted:
Americans remain free to voluntarily disclose how they voted, and in a political blogosphere that has become increasingly obsessed with transparency, that’s exactly what is happening.
On Friday, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit informed his 100K+ daily readers that he had voted for Senate candidate Bob Corker (R), John Greene (D) for Congressman, and Democrat Phil Bredesen for governor of Tennessee.
Today, Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters disclosed how he and his wife voted on their Minnsota absentee ballots (Both gladly supported the Republican candidates on their ballots — with the exception of where they voted for Ed himself as a write-in candidate for Mayor of Eagan).
As to why so many in the blogosphere seem willing to disclose their secret ballots, Danny concludes:
People’s political leanings generally are quite obvious on their blogs, so such voting disclosures aren’t likely to surprise many readers. Even so, it’s interesting to see the current generation of Americans so willing to make their ballots open to the world on the Internet when their political forbears fought so hard to keep ballots secret.
I disclosed my votes in the 2006 mid-term elections here.
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I’ll try to keep an updated running list of other bloggers who are posting “How I Voted” entries during early voting:
- Jason Pye (Georgia)
- Joe Frank (Missouri)
- Scott Reynen at randomchaos (Iowa)
- The Hermit (Illinois), who voted for incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) despite the fact that — in his opinion — he is “corrupt as all Hell”.
- Daniel Patterson (Arizona)
- Jeremy’s Jeremiad (Utah)
- Nick McCart (Colorado) at Haphazard Tangent
- S-townMike (Tennessee) — “Harold Ford indeed lost my vote. He needed my vote more than I need him in the Senate.”
- Karl-Thomas Musselman at Burnt Orange Report (Texas)
- Steven Adams at The Holywriter (W. Virginia), who voted for incumbent Sen. Robert Byrd (former Klansman — D), admitting that,” I’d rather have a senile Byrd in office…”
- Kevin at TalkLeft (Tennessee)
- Paul Smith Jr. at Delaware 2006 (Delaware)
- Not So Confidential (Tennessee)
- Aaron Brazell at Technosailor (Maryland)
- Emmett O’Connell at OlyBlog (Washington)
- Emily Duffy at Political Artwork (California)
- The Militant Libertarian (Utah)
- ascap at Reconstitution (California)
- Gordon R. Durand at Zeta Woof (Oregon)
- Timothy at BurntOrangeReport (Texas)
- Scott Brannock at Austin Daze (Texas)
- Tgirsch at Lean Left (Tennessee)
- John at Op-For (Virginia)
- Bitter at The Bitch Girls (Virginia)
- Erick at Peach Pundit (Georgia)
- Ryan Wrasse at GOP-SPOT (Wisconsin)
- VOLBOY (Tennessee)
- Josh Schroeder (Wisconsin)
- David Burns (California)
- Dean Wormer at The Dean’s Office (Oregon)
- Vonski at They Call Me Vonski (Oregon)
- scorpioprimus at Rambles from a Wreck (California)
- Le Lowry at Breathe. Politics (Texas)
- Nani Moon (South Dakota)
- Ryan Uyehara at Contradictions of the Not So Everyday Man (Kiev, Ukraine — by way of Virginia) — “And that was how I voted. Voted in the deserted attic of a dorm I don’t even live in. Voted as the Louisville-West Virginia game played on distantly, without interest in my historic event.”
UrbanGrounds about ascap’s California election rundown. Sun, 29.10.2006 13:38 Danny at Beltway Blogroll on the blogosphere’s willingness to [...]
Even so, it’s interesting to see the current generation of Americans so willing to make their ballots open to the world on the Internet when their political forbears fought so hard to keep ballots secret
Not really so interesting. The point of secret ballots is to remove the threat of intimidation swaying the voters. If you don’t feel intimidated go ahead and tell the world. Even if you do feel intimidated: lie.
[...] While searching for “How I Voted” posts to include in my post about transparant ballots, I ran across these two Democrats who shared how they voted…but also their predictions for the outcome of the national election: [...]
I’m a HIM!!!!
Yikes. Sorry about that (corrected).
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[...] In this post last week, I started tracking bloggers (regardless of party affliation) who were posting how they voted during early voting. Now that Early Voting is done, and before tomorrow’s general election, I wanted to re-publish this list of bloggers who wrote “How I Voted” posts on their blogs: [...]
In talking to people about the Texas governors race, I never really thought of looking at, “how I voted” as an issue of voting transparency but rather as a way to get out the vote. Not so much on my blog but on the campaign trail, I talked a lot about what was right with politics in what I saw in Chris Bell and Kinky Friedman. As I attended more events from both candidates, I came out more for Bell. As a way to get out the vote among Democrats in San Antonio, I decided to more openly support Bell. Guess it didn’t work, he lost but the political process moves on.