Voting Stories (Vanity but Mod please keep)

[watsonfellow]

Tell us what you saw today at your voting place.

[LukeL]

Poll worker couldn't understand what I was saying, took me 10 tries for her to finally understand my name. Ohter than that noting out of the ordinary.

[FarRightFanatic]

"ATTN: MINNESOTA FREEPERS

IF YOU HAVE A VOTING DAY STORY (ANECDOTAL OR OTHERWISE), PLEASE POST IT ON THIS THREAD! "


I voted at 11:00 this morning in the north metro. I overheard one election official say that since 7am when they opened and 11am when I voted, they had already had 600 voters. I didn't have to wait in line, but the polling station was full and there was a steady stream of voters in and out. Seemed similar to 2004 election day.

[MplsSteve]

That makes me a little nervous...I think.

A high turnout in Minnesota favors the DFL.

I hope I'm mistaken.

[mplsconservative]

I was #423 in Watertown, MN at 10:30. There were at least a dozen stations to fill in your ballot and all were full so I had to wait a couple of minutes. Steady stream behind me. Turnout was described as good, very good in this Red county.

I left feeling better about this election.

[jerry639]

So, I surmise that young or old, from both our experiences today, that they don't install the brightest bulbs in those positions.

[kevkrom]

4PM, Gaithersburg MD -- no lines, light rain. Inside, I got to check in almost immediately, but most voting machines were in use. I was voter #972 for the precinct.

[Hildy]

Is gaithersburg predominantly REP or DEM

[kevkrom]

It's Montgomery Country, so it's DEM, though not as heavily as Rockville or Bethesda.

[madison10]

That's what we have in our county in Michigan, virtually fool-proof. We didn't have to show proof, but they know us by name.

Voted around noon, there were hardly any people in line, but I vote in our "city." The township offices across the street looked busy, which is a good thing because they are mostly Republican. Had to split my ballot from straight Republican to vote for one Libertarian running AGAINST John Dingell.

[moondoggie]

We have the exact same system as you do!

We reached our little school to vote around 10:30 AM and were already 205-206 in line. That surprised me. Voter turnout is heavy here.

[pollywog]

Eagle Rock, California.... average voting. I went a little after noon. No wait. Missed the driveway entrance and jimmied up my tires!!*hubby not happy*, and left my car keys in the booth, and had to go back and retrieve them...( can we say stressed out??!!)...other than that, a normal day at the voting booth.

OH they have a new fangled device. They put your ballot through a machine to see if there were any errors!!!!

[pollywog]

..........oh and we still use the paper ballots. We used the ink method of stamping though so no hanging chads!!*hee hee*

[nutmeg]

We live in a very small town in northern Connecticut... population about 4,000. We vote in our community center... same old-fashioned lever and curtain voting machines that I've always voted on. My husband voted at about 6:15am, I voted around 2:15pm. Somewhat busy, but not overly so... I had no wait at all, and had my choice of voting machines. That's typical in our small town, though.

I've heard that people voted via "new" technology - optical scanning equipment - where you fill in bubble for your candidates then insert it into a fax-like machine in other towns in Connecticut, but we still used the old tried-and-true lever machines.

I waved to and gave a thumbs up to the (local) Republican candidates and supporters waving signs near the community center... ignored the waves of the Lamont and other 'RAT supporters.

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

We live in a very small town in northern Connecticut... population about 4,000. We vote in our community center... same old-fashioned lever and curtain voting machines that I've always voted on. My husband voted at about 6:15am, I voted around 2:15pm. Somewhat busy, but not overly so... I had no wait at all, and had my choice of voting machines. That's typical in our small town, though.

I waved to and gave a thumbs up to the (local) Republican candidates and supporters waving signs near the community center... ignored the waves of the Lamont and other 'RAT supporters.

I've heard that people voted via "new" technology - optical scanning equipment - where you fill in bubble for your candidates then insert it into a fax-like machine in Wethersfield, Torrington and East Hartford. There are probably more towns that took part in new technology, but I'm not yet aware of them.

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[Man50D]

are probably more towns that took part in new technology, but I'm not yet aware of them.

According to the report on the radio there is 25 towns being used as Guinea Pigs.

[nutmeg]

According to the report on the radio there is 25 towns being used as Guinea Pigs.

Hope all went well in those 25 towns. I heard one quite elderly woman tell Jim Vicevich on is radio show this morning that it was extremely easy for her to vote using this new technology in Wethersfield.

[nutmeg]

My rather boring voting story is in #293... I'd love to hear yours! :o)

[SuziQ]

There has been a discussion on one of the MA homeschool message boards the last few days about the candidates. A couple of the gals wrote to each candidate asking their positions on homeschooling. They got responses from everyone except Kerry Healey, though several mentioned that Healey was in favor of raising the age of compulsory ed. to 18. What that means for us is that those of us with high schoolers have to continue to get approval from the local Superintendent, and report to the School Dept. until the kids are 18, or are graduated. This year was easy for me because I simply wrote our town and said that since our son is 16 1/2, I no longer had to have any contact with them regarding his education. I did this so that there would be no questions about truancy; there is something on record for him. Most folks were not TOO concerned about Healey's opinion, though, because they considered it unlikely that the legislature would raise that age; there would be way too much opposition

Deval Patrick, on the other hand is SO in the pocket of the Teacher's Unions, it's scary, and he wants public preK for 3 and 4 yr olds. THAT was very worrisome to many of the younger parents, and they thought it more likely that the Nanny State legislature would vote for THIS.

So, though many of the ladies said they'd like to vote for Mihos, they didn't want to throw away their votes so they were voting for Kerry Healey.

[Howlin]

I love those old booths! I loved it when the worker turned it on and the curtains closed.

Now that's voting!

We use the optical scanner and it doesn't take that long to fill in TWO circles (one straight GOP and one on a referendum.)

[rmlew]

Upper East Side of Manhattan polling site had 3 voters, no waiting, at 7 am.
Which polling site?
Were the Flip and Heim people out?