(Vanity) How Are Things At Your Polling Place?

[doberville]

Turn out was HEAVY here on Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Lots of lines, about a twenty minute wait.

Weather was clear and moderate this AM with rain expected in the afternoon.

I choose to be optimistic about the large turnout.

I for one am going to celebrate with a good bottle if our guys get in!

[MRobert]

The weather is beautiful here in central Missouri and voter turnout was high this morning. The poll workers at our precinct said it has been heavy as of 11 a.m. today. Another person at another precinct said it was high there as well.

My county is extremely conservative so Talent is probably getting many of the votes. The embryonic stem cell amendment is also drawing voters to the polls. That is about the only amendment being discussed although ACORN was able to get a minimum wage hike on the ballot and there is a proposed 80-cent per pack tax on cigarettes, too.

[demsux]

I just left my polling place in Kirkwood, MO. Big turnout.

I planted two signs which I printed out from my laser printer...they say...

HUNTERS

CLAIRE MCCASCILL WILL TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY.

I got some wierd looks from the smoking ban, stem cell freaks, but I just lit up a smoke and walked on.

[guido911]

I do not know where this "low voter turnout" stuff is coming from. Just heard from the Mrs. that our polling station has run out of paper ballots twice already...

[Apple Blossom]

bmwcyle and I were #2 & #3 in line at our polling place in Fairfax, VA at 5:40am, polls opened @ 6am. Very crowded parking when we walked out at 6:10am.

HOWEVER, now it is raining, so who knows if things will slow down or maybe voters won't stop on their way home from work.

[LoneGOPinCT]

I voted this noon on the "newest voting technology" machines (we had the good old lever machines until this year).

First you stand in line to show your ID. Unlike many parts of the U.S., especially cities, we are required to show an official ID card (driver, state or otherwise) in order to vote. I guess living in a suburb that is the victim of a democRATic-stronghold there is little interest in supporting voter fraud as it wouldn't gain them anything.

Then you go you go to the folding card table-like voting "booth" and color in your candidates circles with the provided black marker.

After filling in your ballot, you place it in a folder and carry it to the line for the reader, which is a fax machine-looking thingy to register your vote.

It hardly seems like a step forward and a process that, as it gets widespread implementation, will give the RATs ample opportunity to commit voter fraud while conversely being questionable enough in the back of the voters' mind to plant that seed that the GOP must have hacked into the system in the event that they lose.

I went during lunch so there were very few people voting, yet because of the steps involved there was still a bit of a wait. I bet it can be a real mess when there are folks lined up to cast their vote. The results in our town are pretty much a forgone conclusion so turnout may only be so-so. Although the Lament-heads may make it interesting for LIEberman.

[BJClinton]

Packed polls in Round Rock, TX. Long lines in solidly (R) territory.

[newcthem]

Just voted at noon (rural Wisconsin) weather fair, turn-out pretty heavy.
Had to re-register, my wife was on the voter list but somehow I got dropped..........no matter, glad to see the folks doing their job.

[LoneGOPinCT]

Forgot to say that the weather was nice for a fall in CT and that the parking lot outside was full of Greenies and Lament-heads trying to pass out their propaganda.

[SengirV]

Howdy Former Neighbor. I used to live just off West rd. east of 610. Still have lots of friends down there. To me, that is one of hte best places to live in Houston. There are actually parts up there that DON'T look like a giant strip mall. Shocking in Houston, I know.

[MamaB]

We had to present an ID. I was 430 and I have no idea how many usually votes here but I do think it was high and it was raining. I voted about 10.

[EyeGuy]

Line out the door @ (6:05 AM) in heavily Republican Sunset Hills (St. Louis), MO. Stood in line between ex-educator female (running for state rep against solid (R) Todd Akin) and a local multi-millionaire mega-contractor.

Voted for Jim Talent, Akin and NO on all ballot issues:

EMBRYONIC stem cells.

ANOTHER tobacco tax.

ANOTHER "education" bond issue-properly known of course, as an NEA subsidy.

Voted out all known judicial activists.

[MissouriConservative]

In Kansas City I just finishing voting before going to work. The weather is sunny and beautiful with temps in the low to mid 60s.

They had one freaking Diebold machine and a ton of paper ballots that you had to fill in the oval (like standardized school tests from so long ago). I waited to vote on the Diebold machine and it was easy as pie to vote. After the vote the poll worker took the little card from me and put it into a holder he had around his neck and downloaded my ballot from the card. I simply love technology.

One lady, an older black lady, was waiting to use the Diebold and we were talking. I said that I can't wait to use this machine to help with the perfect Rovian storm. She looked at me like I was from another planet. While voting I kept chuckling to myself and she just kept looking at me out of the corner of her eye. Funny as heck. Democrats do not have a sense of humor.

[voiceinthewind]

Second in line, Mr. Voice cut in front of me! Easy electronic touchscreen, straight Republican ticket, but I took the time to scroll through and make sure the correct boxes had been checked. Had to vote separately for Lamar Smith.The workers were a little frazzled, surprising as usually the same workers for the past years were pretty efficient, but I think the problem was the redistricting and some people had older voter cards that didn't reflect the change.

[groovejedi]

I waited in line for 2 minutes. There were maybe 20 people there.


I voted all Republican! :D

[YankeeGirl]

Sunny and mild in Westchester County, suburb of NYC.

I cast my vote against Clinton (the guy's name didn't even look familiar; they really didn't spend any money campaigning for that seat) and Nita Lowey. Not too keen on Repub choice for governor, he was a crappy mayor of a crappy city, but I went with him.

Now I have to hope my daughter is too busy to come up to Westchester from her dorm at NYU. She didn't fall for the old "I won't vote if you don't come home" routine. She's determined to cancel out my vote. That's ok. Her dad is on the good side.

[FreedomNeocon]

I live in Maryland, and I voted in PG county around 10am.

The polling place that sent me the little book with all the measures, and "my polling location" for some reason did not have me on the rolls when I got there.

I did move in January '05, and I did a change of address, I even got the election thing at my new place, I am registered Republican, but I think its most likely incompetence than anything shady, but oh well.

I drove the 10miles down to Taylor Road to vote at my old place, turnout was fairly heavy (40 people or so in line, 10 voting), but seemed a pretty equal mix of white/black/hispanic. Talked to an older black women behind me who recently became a citizen and found she was voting for Steele, and I told her so I was I... that was nice.

I offered to show my Drivers license, but the polling lady gave me a strange look and said "you don't need those there", asked me for my address and when I started to explain the issue with the move, they just said 'you know what, it doesn't matter there is nobody here to challenge it anyway, as long as you didn't vote up in two places, you are fine', but yeah... it wasn't exactly the most iron-clad system.

Regardless, the electronic machines worked perfectly and I was in and out in like 15min, my vote took all of 2. (Straight republican where I can, against all the stupid amendments and petitions for additional funding, for all the BS questions, which there was like 16)

[Cyclopean Squid]

I know, I just moved up here from the Med Center and really like it for the most part. It's just temporary though, but maybe I'll find something more permanent in the area.

[Palladin]

Thank you for voting for Michael Steele.