Posted on 11/07/2006 9:55:15 AM PST by TBP
What are the conditions at your polling place? How is turnout? The weather? The voting equipment? Was checking in easy? Were there people outside electioneering? if so, who was there, Republicans or Democrats or others?
At my polling place, thigns were slow when my wife and I went to vote about 8-ish. One of the few guys passing out literature (for the newly-Republican State Senator inmy district) was saying that the turnout had been very low. (I'm going to go over there later and see how it's going.) The only people electioneering were two guys handing out literature for the Republican and Democrat candidates for the State Senate in my district and one guy working for a candidate for county office in my district. Nobody from either side of the gubernatorial or Senate races.
The weather is good. It's in the 50s and clear. No precip expected.
We have new Diebold touch-screen machines this year. They're easy to use. But where is the paper trail? How do you recount if you need to? They felt the need to put up a big sign announcing that the electronic voting is secure and it's illegal to tamper with it. We have electronic check-in too. I'm not sure I entirely trust it; it's a blue state, after all.
I grew up on lever machines and know how they can be compromised, but I miss them. At least I had a curtain so nobody could walk by and look at how I am voting.
Let's track this all day and see how it's trending.
I voted at 8am this morning. Maybe 15-20 people in line.
Voted on the new electronic machine, double-checked my choices on the screen but overlooked checking the paper copy. Got in my car, turned on XM listening to Glenn Beck and first thing I heard was a caller saying to be sure to check the paper ballot that some place was reporting problems with folks voting one way on screen and the paper ballot printing something different. Oh Geez! Can't trust anything or anybody anymore!
Magnificent, voted just before 10am, #266 at the ballet insertion machine.
I pulled out my list for the more local races that don't have a party affiliation, had to make sure I voted for the conservative.
Dad provided me with the list, he's magnificent too.
Down on the highway overpass a bunch of young folks were holding signs for Gil Gutnick, R MN,
geuss they know they're issues too, magnificent!
It was misting when I went in to vote at noon.
No line, no wait, showed I.D., took my paper ballot to the box and marked my circles... I was # 198.
No one was in line behind me, but a car did arrive as I was leaving the lot.
ROTFLMAO!
God bless you and your parents for voting against the Demscum Murtha/Casey/Rendell!
I didn't notice where there was any count of how many people were voting.
I voted around 11:30 in a pretty easy atmosphere. The voting machines were nearly all occupied full but I got on right away.
This was the first time I'd used a touch-screen voting machine and I thought it was impressively smooth. They gave me a card, I stuck it into the machine and they took it back. Not sure why that was or how that part works.
But voting was very easy and I thought it was well designed overall. I was able to punch a "Straight Ticket" Republican button that made voting trivial but took too much of the drama out of the process.
I'm in Carroll Township, Washington County, PA (near Pittsburgh). I happen to really not like where I live at all so I'm not sure what its political affiliation is overall. Hopefully by the next election I will have moved :-).
D
No. I am in the district next to DeLay's district. But I have a good feeling that the Republican, Shelly Sekula-Gibbs, will win DeLay's district. There are some pissed-off Republicans in that predominately Republican district and Shelly Sekula-Gibbs did a good job on TV ads to get the word out.
No problem with the equipment. They are the same touchscreens we've used before (Sierra?). One of the poll workers is a long-time family acquaintance, so we chatted a bit. Check-in process was orderly - no signs of White-Out. I appeared to be the only voter there when I arrived, but another lady was leaving the second booth as I was departing.
Rain is forecast later, and it's mild and overcast now. Our district is pretty divided, but trends Democrat now - it's been changing over time.
I was not on the list!! They had to call the court house and get a OK for me to vote.. I have voted here for 30 years, I voted on a touchscreen machine..
My son and wife will be included along with me as we go to vote also!!!!!
At our polling place, there was a big sign announcing that it was illegal to use your cell phone in the polling place. The only D I voted for was unopposed for a local clerical-type office. Even a Dem can't do much damage in that kind of position.
Here in Mobile, I voted at 830 - was the 110th voter on the scanner (?) they were using and there was three total machines. The line was out the door....we've got no worries here in Alabama but I'm hoping this is a barameter of what the turnout is around the nation. And, it was rainy and a little windy.....Go GOP!!!
West Hanover township(outside harrisburg,pa)normal traffic,signed my name and went right into the booth. I was so happy to finally vote I forgot to check what number I was on the list.
Local radio says in Lebanon county they had trouble with the new screens and they are extending voting hours till 9 p.m.
I voted this morning in a rural Va. district outside Richmond. I was number 260 to vote (or thereabouts). I voted same time of day in 2004, and was number 180. The line was longer than usual, lots of farmers voting. And, I am in a gerrymandered district with an unopposed Dem congressman, so people were only there to vote on the marriage amendment and the senate race.
Of course this is unscientific anecdotal information from one polling place, but I took it as a good sign. There was NO evidence of a disaffected Republican turnout from what I saw. Quite the opposite.
We had WinVote (?) touchscreens which worked fine - very quick and efficient. No sign of any "observers" from either side.
Outside the polling place (beyond the legal marker of course) Allen signs outnumbered Webb signs 10-1.
And, it looks like we are in for rain this afternoon. BWAHAHAHAH!
Just west of Madison, WI---very, very busy at the polls. It is an extraordinarily beautiful day here! Didn't see any problems, but it was organized differently than in the past and there were lines to get in lines.
Fairfax County, VA (Clifton precinct). Wife and I showed up around 10 AM, had a 30 minute wait to get through the line and to vote.
Fairfax County uses touch screen machines, and has for some years now. No problem with the machines. They had 7 machines set up but only enough workers to supervise 5, and I'm sure that contributed to the wait.
I would say noticeably heavier than a standard non-presidential year.
The Dem and Rep representatives hand out different color sample ballots. Clearly more folks in line with Rep sample ballots than Dem, but this has traditionally been an area that goes 60-65% Rep. Unfortunately, Fairfax County as a whole is becoming reliably Dem.
Jack
At ours, there is a plastic card, like an ATM card. You check in, take the card, and stick it in the slot. That activates the screen. We had 4 screens of stuff to vote for.
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