VANITY: YUUUUUUUUGE Early Voting Line in Broward County

Self | October 24, 2016 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

(Note: I posted this on another thread about early voting in Florida but I think it needs a thread of its own.)

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Okay, I am now back from early voting at the Broward Country Library Tamarac Branch and I have some SHOCKING news.....

First of all I did NOT vote. Actually, as you shall see, this is GOOD news. The reason why I did NOT vote is that the line was BY FAR the largest I have ever seen it for early voting at this location. It was so large that it went thru the library and snaked out almost to the back door. I estimated the wait time to be around 2 hours. Maybe longer.

I have early voted at this same location several times before and the lines were NEVER close to being this long. In off year elections, the wait time is always zero to less than 5 minutes. In presidential elections, always less than 15 to 20 minutes. I didn't feel like waiting a couple of hours on that looooooong line especially since I didn't bring my cellphone headphones to listen to internet radio while waiting.

An elections official told me there were few people in the line when it opened at 7 A.M. and for about the first half hour so tomorrow I will be there at 7 to vote.

The GOOD NEWS is that any first time voting millennial who is sort of for Hillary will be bummed out waiting for over an hour on that looooooong line. I actually didn't spot anybody on that line that would even fit into that age group. Imagine the shock of a first time voter millennial seeing that line and realizing he/she would have to invest a couple hours waiting.

Well, tomorrow I will be there right at opening time at 7 AM to vote. But just in case, I will be bringing my headphones.

[sparklite2]

From North Central Florida, moderate line queued up, with probably half the number of parasite voters as in 2012. Good sign.

[Magnum44]

Is Florida using electronic voting, or paper ballot?

[PJ-Comix]

Another observation: the first day of early voting will bring out the most motivated voters from both sides. I will get a better feel by going back on Thursday. Also (hopefully) a much shorter wait time on line.

[SamAdams76]

There's a memo circulating on the Internet - supposedly from Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway - that talks about a massive GOTV effort ongoing in early voting states. If this is true, might explain the large turnout you are seeing today. The memo also talks about $140m in ads over the next two weeks. That's a lot of ads - for those who have been clamoring for them.

[ScottinVA]

What exactly did you see insofar as demographics? That’ll help determine whether this is a boon to Trump? Did you see mostly ethnics and women? White men? Any red shirts?

[bigred44]

The statement was that it was a predominantly, if not all, white turnout with great enthusiasm to stand in line for several hours. The non-white population is heavily Democrat, which is the reason Dems have higher registration there.

Not scientific, but that’s an indication that these are Trump supporters. I don’t believe Hillary supporters are that excited about her.

[Political Junkie Too]

Is Sunrise still predominantly Jewish transplants from New York?

-PJ

[PJ-Comix]

Is Sunrise still predominantly Jewish transplants from New York?

No, that's Tamarac. Retirees. However, they are being supplanted by Hispanics.

[PJ-Comix]

Weird thing is that 50 years ago, Broward county was the most Republican county in Florida. It went for Goldwater in the ‘64 election.

[Political Junkie Too]

A shame, but time marches on. My grandparents relocated to Tamarac, and I went to high school in Sunrise.

I guess they all migrated to Weston.

-PJ

[Bluebird Singing]

I hate it. I live in Broward. My Trump sign was stolen Saturday night in the wee hours.

[Bluebird Singing]

Broward county was the scene of the famous “chads” of 2000.

We now have fill in the circle, electronic read of ballots.

[PJ-Comix]

Weston is full of wealthy Venezuelans and Colombians. I think most of them will vote Trump. Especially the Venezuelans. My Venezuelan in-laws are all for Trump.

[Luircin]

god I hate early voting. Geometrically expands possibilities for fraud. Why can’t we just do the ink dip like Iraq?

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Because it’s racist against giant purple people eaters or something.

[roostercogburn]

Elderly folks vote early. A lot of elderly Trump supporters in Florida.
My guess is even in heavily democratic Broward county, longer than typical lines of old white folks is a good sign for Donald.
If he picks up 20K votes in each of the 4 biggest counties in the state, and does as well as Romney in all the others..he wins.

[faithhopecharity]

please be sure to vote

we need every possible vote to overcome the rigged media-SOrozNazi machine

[Dave W]

For what it’s worth, I don’t think the ads matter at this point. If they do show up, it is too little and too late.

[Dave W]

Look. The dems are masters at get out the vote. They put time and money into it because it is important. Trump did not. I heard on the radio tonight, that the first day of early voting in Texas saw a huge increase in democrat voting areas and not so much in republican areas. For example, the county Austin is in doubled from four years ago. I could go on, but you get the point.

The republicans tend to vote on election day, but the democrats know they have bussed, carried, hauled, rounded up millions before election day and those are votes they don't have to harvest on election day.

[PJ-Comix]

An update: I drove past the same library this afternoon where they have early voting and the line is still looooong. Parking lot filled up ad cars parked out on the street.

I set my alarm for early tomorrow so I can vote at 7 AM when the election official told me the line is short.