FW: EARLY Voting begins today - Check your options before voting
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:15:23 -0400
Subject: EARLY Voting begins today - Check your options before voting
From: angelameltzer.cpa@gmail.com
To: angelameltzer.cpa@gmail.com
This Primary election is IT! There will be no other choice in the general election in November to vote for a Democrat because none is running.
Before heading down to the Elections office please take a moment to check the following website www.sos.georgia.gov/mvp - it's super user-friendly. You simply put in your first initial, last name, your date of birth and county. Up pops all your voter details - what district you're in, what precinct and where you vote. Print or view both a REPUBLICAN and a DEMOCRATIC ballot. Compare your options on both ballots. Then go VOTE! There is no Democrat in any of your other races if you're in the 117th District.
P.S. - An added bonus of voting with a Republican Ballot in this primary is that, as a Democrat, you will have an opportunity to have a "say" in the Paul Broun race!
The following are excerpts from Peter McCommons recent article in Flagpole.
Thinking the Unthinkable
Will Democrats ask for a Republican ballot?Doug's (McKillip's) new district, the 117th, is carefully drawn to assemble a Republican majority. No Democrat has a prayer there, and none was foolhardy enough to volunteer to prove it in this election. The math works for the Republicans, but it doesn't necessarily work for Doug, because he has a Republican opponent: a strong Republican opponent—a real Republican opponent, one more genuinely conservative than Doug with all his posturing can pretend to be: Athens attorney Regina Quick.
The Atlanta Republicans assume that they have drawn a district that disenfranchises Athens Democrats, because they're in a minority district-wide. These are the same voters that the Atlanta Republicans have knocked around by diluting their voting strength in the state Senate and now in the House. These voters can be treated with impunity.
But suppose those voters saw themselves not as Democrats but as citizens of Athens, that same Athens that has watched its community of interest sliced and diced and subjugated to those of other communities in the surrounding area. Suppose those Athens voters wanted to tell Atlanta that we've had enough, and we've found an unexpected, deeply uncharacteristic way to fight back: vote Republican.
The Atlanta Republicans and McKillip are confident that few liberal Democrats will vote for Regina Quick or any other Republican. There's no way those Democrats are going to ask for a Republican ballot, even though they don't even have a Democratic candidate in that race or any other race in that primary.
So, here's the deal: most Athens Republicans in District 117 will probably go for Quick, because she is one of them, and McKillip is not. But McKillip will win in the surrounding counties, and he'll never have to worry about Athens again. Athens voters—Democrats and Republicans—will be marginalized in House District 117, just as they already are in our two Senate districts. But if even a few Democrats vote in the Republican primary—it doesn't mean they've become Republicans—they can make the difference in electing Regina Quick, and she will know it.
The Democratic voters in District 117 absolutely hold the balance of power, but will they choose Athens over their party? Doug McKillip and the Atlanta power brokers are confident Athens Democrats will never ask for a Republican ballot—and they're smiling.
Angela Meltzer
(706) 340-2732 (cell)
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