Posted on 11/07/2006 6:01:51 AM PST by watsonfellow
Tell us what you saw today at your voting place.
Upper East Side of Manhattan polling site had 3 voters, no waiting, at 7 am.
At 6:05 am there were less than 10 people voting. It was raining in southern indiana so that may have detered some people. I vote in 5 minutes. It took almost an hour in 2004.
Well I early voted and I didn't have to wait in any long line, lol! When I voted last week there were at least 2 other people voting, but no line and a bunch of senior citizens sitting around yapping away while working.
This morning I drove by the voting place in my precinct near my sons school and there were a lot of cars parked and people walking in and out to vote. I live in a mostly Republican area so that is good.
Presidential Election years are always more attended. I %doubt that 65% of electorate will get out to vote today.
Less than 2 dozen people at 7:30 at my polling place in Frederick, MD. In and out in minutes.
Pennsylvania, 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, voted 4th at 7 a.m. opening. There were at least 30 people in line outside when I finished. No apparent problems, but the touch sceen voting was curious-- a cartridge which looked like an miniaturized 8 track tape which came out of the poll worker's pocket and went into the machine. There were five machines in our polling place, so mine (#4) took a little longer to boot up as I was the first one to use it.
I haven't voted yet, but It will be so easy ..Just to mark that Straight Republican Ticket arrow.
At 6:05 AM EST there were 12 people present at my polling place in western Old Town Alexandria, VA. Polls opened at 6 AM.
I was voter number 7, and cast my ballot for George Allen!
From NRO:
Hi Kathryn,
Just wanted to let you know that I reside in Hilltown Township, a small community in Bucks County, PA. I am one of those people who vote in every election usually before I go to work. Normally I am one of the first ten voters; today I was #89. I waited in line for 40 minutes. When I left there was still a line out the door and around the corner. Hopefully this will bode well for Rick Santorum.
Two years ago, they made me remove my, "Coors," hat. I was wearing it because it's part of my uniform. Pete Coors was running for Senate at the time.
Only thing that happened this year was we got to use the new touch screen machines. A piece of paper recorded my vote. I asked the lady why I couldn't get a copy and she said, "Can't. you can sell your vote if that happened."
Didn't make sense to me at the time, but some FReepers told me how this was done.
San Antonio, Texas, packed at the open.
One worker to show people how to use the machines, three on registration duty. 16 pages of candidates. Line moving at a good clip, one of the eight machines are already down.
Electioneers already lined up. Big Bonilla support.
Hey, that sounds like the machine we used here in my Indiana precinct. They made sure that we knew to hit the "vote" button (with flashing red light) or our ballot wouldn't be cast.
Here in State College PA, we're already having serious problems with the new touch screen machines at several precincts. A couple of polling places did not open at the regular 7:00 AM time. Lines are longer than usual in our little town, according to local radio, and some of that seems to have to do with voting machine problems and slow downs.
reporting from my office (MD).... seems all the libs are giddy today... I can't wait till tomorrow when they are suicidal.... after the GOP ROMP!!!
When I asked a longtime poll worker "How's the turnout?" she said "We can barely keep up" (she's an elderly lady and a solid Republican - and she's been working the polls for decades). This is good, because we're in a very Republican RED area.
Here's an interesting little thing I overheard:
As I was signing in, a poll worker came over from the computer voting area and said to the poll worker with the book "We have another runaway voter - put a slash by her name". I'm guessing that this means the voter started her ballot on the computer and walked out of the polling place, but didn't press the "vote" button that actually casts the ballot. And, obviously, from the comment, she was at least the second voter to do so. Interesting phenomenon. Wonder how common this is?
Rural South Carolina...
7:00 AM
I got there at 6:59 and the parking lot was full. I was the 33rd voter. My neighbor got the coveted #1 spot.
Before I left there were two lines with at least 20 people in each to sign in.
A line with another 20 people waiting to vote on one of the 8 machines.
Steady stream of folks were coming in the whole time.
Oh yeah...it was raining.
Our local moonbat's father told me that his daughter refuses to vote in the "BushReich farce election". He says she's sitting home getting drunk already. LOL
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