Posted on 11/07/2006 6:01:51 AM PST by watsonfellow
Tell us what you saw today at your voting place.
ROFLMAO !!!!
Your right. my very bad....the Uninformed!
We tried voting at about 7:10 in Utah County. None of the machines were working. Voters leaving. I don't know when they'll be running.
Yep, Lieberman's name was actually partially covered by the voting machine's lever when I went to vote this morning.
One would have to kind of reach around it to vote for Joe.
In central MS, there were comments about the already-good turnout so early. This was my first go with the touch-screen machines. A reciept is printed that shows what votes you cast so there IS a paper trail. Good experience.
Rhode Island checking in here.
Got to my voting place early. The Dem and repub town council candidates were in the parking lot looking for last-minute hand-shakes. I passed by both of them, and took a sticker from the 'Vote No on the Casino Bill' lady. She said "Thank you", I replied, "State-sponsored sin must be defeated".
As I entered the voting area, two poll workers were singing Clinton's praises, going on about how they can't wait until Bush is out. "Clinton couldn't keep his fly up, but at least he got the job done."
*sigh*
I just shook my head and walked away.
Didn't vote for liberal senator Linc Chafee, didn't vote for the greater liberal senator wannabe Sheldon Whitehouse. I wrote in for Steven Laffey. Chafee and Whitehouse have been running ads, each trying to claim they're the most liberal, and how we should vote for them to "Send Bush a message". And to think the state GOP approves of Chafee. And to think Laura Bush was here stumping for him. It makes me sad - he deserves to lose.
Voted to keep the Republican governor, voted for the Republican Lt. Gov and Republican Attorney General.
Rejected the Casino, rejected the proposal to allow felons the 'right to vote', rejected the public housing initiative, rejected the liberal college bonds, approved the transportation bill (our roads are complete shyte).
We met "Rush Limbaugh" at dawn (6:45 a.m.) and voted Republican straight ticket in Greenwood, IN....poll officials stated they had been busy since opening at 6:00 a.m. This is a heavily Republican district....and we are happy the base has turned out to vote.
Picky, picky, picky :) Brown County - Wisconsin. We are voting for reinstatement of the death penalty (advisory only) and a marriage amendment (one man/one woman), and dumping Govenor Bingo Doyle. It was great fun!
I may ask for one of those, just so that I make sure I vote opposite to every one of their "recommendations".
Goose Creek, SC - raining cats and dogs, long line. Hard right district.
Mark Sanford will have an easy win, no commiecrats in contention for anything important here.
And it might have, except for the older (50-60) woman in front of me trying to figure out how to use the touch screen. Like the proverbial longest line at the express checkout, we ended up with five people in line waiting for her to figure out the machine. After 5 minutes, some people asked for paper ballots just so they could cast their votes and leave for work.
Finally, I got my chance to vote after 8 minutes of waiting. (The operator REALLY didn't want me to leave.) In less than a minute without help, I cast my votes including writing in Ronald MacDonald to oppose Bobby Scott (D). (Scott is the beneficiary of a gerrymandered Democratic district.) The electronic machine was faster and easier to use, as long as the user knows what he/she is doing.
Anyway, just my story from this morning...
My brother-in-law, however, lives about 1/4 mile south from me, in the same city, and he is in DeLauro's district.
I agree about the big red flashing "vote" button. I don't like how the technology is mixed - - - everything else is happening on the screen and now I suddenly have to go off screen to a "mechanical" button. It's asking for trouble and confusion.
Voted this morning at 9:00 AM in Sudley Springs Area (small Rat precint 2200 voters)in Manassas of Prince William County, VA. Turn out was normal, 4 voting machines lines of 5-10 people. Quite a few holding Dim-moron sample ballots. I got offered a ballot and flatly told them No. Cast votes for Allen, Wolf and Stewart, Voted for marriage amendment and against all bond (going into debt issues)
On my way to work I talked to a guy at the gas station who lived in a conservative precinct and he told me voting was very heavy for 6 AM. On the way to work I passed through another conservative precinct at the firehouse and it was packed. Car lot wass full and lots of cars were parked on the roadside. Cops were there to regulate traffic.
Just voted here in the Florida Keys. #242 for the day. Light turnout it seems, but my local paper says over 35% have voted absentee or early voting this year.
Straight R ticket, except for one local County Commissioner race.
Polling station in suburban Buffalo, NY had 3 voters at approx. 8 am. Took me no time to pull the levers.
As a business owner, I would suggest that you ask your employer for time off to VOTE. I would pay an employee who had this problem to go and get is sorted out, no matter who they were voting for.
You are disenfranchising yourself.
Even in NY, your vote does count.
Did you see that RINO Joe registered as a write in candidate yesterday?
How was the Renaissance Festival this year :-)
Cheers!
...Yes I voted today, got into the polls at 7:10 AM, they had opened at 7.
People were already leaving the polling place, there were about 15 people in line and a steady stream behind us.
No diebold machines. Paper ballots with a little head and tail of an arrow next to each candidate; you use a black marker to complete the arrow.
I think we will have VERY heavy Republican turnout.
Cheers!
I'm swamped - but I'll lift a glass to you now - thanks for voting!!
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