Posted on 11/04/2008 4:27:46 AM PST by gridlock
OK. You've gone out and voted, like a good citizen. Tell us about it.
How was turnout? Were there any problems at your polling place? Who do you think will win your local races?
“Baltimore City, ward 27, pct 40 — deep deep blue area.
“Voted about 9:30, walked right up to the desk and straight to a voting machine. Whole exercise took 2 minutes. No line at all.”
Yeah, but in Baltimore City, everyone votes telepathically. No need to go to the polls. And everyone votes Democrat. All 105% of them.
sitetest
Boy did it feel good to vote! It took us over an hour in line. THere are 828 registered voters in my red precinct. 60 voted by absentee ballot. By noon, 411 votes had been recorded and the line was still an hour long when I left!!! WOOOHOOOO!!! I have never seen so many people there!
He did NOT have a McCain/Palin sign anywhere in his yard.
For the record, I had Huckabee VP sign and two Huckabee for Gov. signs in MY own yard when he was running for Office.
Many of the people in Mike's elite neighborhood had McCain/Palin signs.
Just sayin...
sw
North western Va. Shen. valley, rural area. Very red area. Voter poll worker ladies say it’s the most turn out they have ever seen. I think this could be a good sign.
Freegards
I'm in Maryland. I'm a Terps fan.
But if Sen. McCain takes Virginia AND the election, I'll root for the Hokies, too.
sitetest
Voted before 7:00 in my very, very red precinct. Steady stream of people, no line. Most of the registered voters on the list were already checked as having voted early. The lines were out into the street all last week at the mostly red early voting other location.
We early voted on Oct. 30th at our tiny Jefferson County, Florida polling office. They still use real, old fashioned paper ballots. You mark them with a felt tipped pen, and then slide the ballot into the reader slot.
I was voter number 2000 +.
Several farmers and ranchers came into the polls after us. Those gents looked like they were ALL business. The voting staff checked I.D. and registration on everyone. We were glad to see that.
There was no visible Acorn foolishness at our district.
Our small county has a black / democrat voting majority.
SE FL in a red town in possibly the bluest county in FL. I was going to go at 7 am but stayed up late reading blogs. Got there at 9 am. Our precinct was fairly busy and took 90 minutes with 80 mins in line. I think we have a lot of retirees and semi-retirees at 9 am.
The precinct a few blocks away at the church had people lined up down the street. I never saw it that long. Their wait in line could be at least 2 hours.
People seemed a lot more serious than usual. The weather was fine.
Williamson County, TX is as red as any county in the country and had lines of people stretching around the school. Early voting was packed as well.
Only Rs and Ls on most of the seats.
Are you kidding? CBS called it three weeks ago!
Downtown NYC — lower Manhattan (near the former WTC).
Fairly blue district, so I know that Obamessiah and Nadler (our big-mouth, big-assed congresscritter) will win here, but I vote anway, as I always do. Nearby Battery Park City has more Repubs than I thought would be there, and there are quite a few people here in the Financial District who moved here from out of state and can lean a little right.
We have multiple Election Districts (determined by address and pretty much exist to make people stand in different lines) in each polling place, and the one for NY’s 8th ED was out the door and down the street. A few hundred young, mostly white people. I have NEVER seen so many people voting here, and I have no idea where all these people came from. I thought they might be from the NYU housing high-rise nearby, but they’re in the 9th ED.
I had just gotten on line when a poll worker walked around and tried to make sure that people were on the right line. When I showed him my card, he sent me inside and after getting around a few winding lines, I found my ED — and became the 3rd person on line. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. I went a little after 11 a.m. and was somewhere between the 150th and 200th voter of the day in my ED.
I actually skipped a few contests — mostly judicial elections in which the candidates were endorsed by both parties (I refuse to play along with that crap).
A bit hard to tell — Spotsylvania County is puplish these days....
Checking in from Bethesda, MD. Can’t get more blue than this area. Walked in at 12:55 and was out of there at 1:00. I have voted here for 18 years and this was the shortest time it has ever taken me. My husband voted at 7:00 and it took him 1/2 hour.
Reporting in from mostly blue northeastern Minnesota. Voting poll in the “Little Red Schoolhouse” in Larsmont on the northshore of Lake Superior about 6 miles from Two Harbors. Very little opportunity for fraud since the poll workers know everyone by face. At 0800 I was voter #75 and voted straight GOP ticket. I also voted no on the state constitutional amendment to tax us further for clean water which they are supposed to be doing with the taxes they already receive. Local scuttlebutt is that Norm Coleman is almost a sure thing.
I was in line at 6:15AM, waiting for the polls to open at 6:30AM. I counted fifty people in front of me in line. At 6:58AM the electronic machines were not working, with paper ballots being the only option. At 7:15AM, electronic machines were still not available - only paper ballots. At 7:35AM, just over one hour after the polls opened, they discovered that a ground fault had been tripped and electronic machines were finally available. I received my card to vote on the touch screen electronic machine at 8:05AM. When I went to use it there was an error message on screen that the card was not valid and the vote was canceled. I went back to the table where the voting officials were (only three of them for my precinct), and explained the situation. I didn’t know quite how to react when she acknowledged that they knew that the card I was given had already been giving other voters the same error message, but that they had continued to use it with the hopes it might begin working somehow. I just shook my head in disgust as they setup another card for me and I went to try and vote again. This time it worked ok, and I was able to complete my ballot after only two or three minutes at 8:10AM.
I just voted here in the very liberal People's Republic. Steady stream of voters, but no line. I went in, signed in, got my ballot, and finished voting all within 15 minutes (and this was a very long ballot, 58 items if I remember). The people manning the polling place were very professional, and did a thourough job of checking ID.
Since this precinct is in a very liberal area, a light turnout may indicate a good thing.
As an aside, as I was walking up the street toward the polling place, a man who had just voted, basically said the same thing. He said (angrily) "Why do we even go to vote, since the newspapers have it already figured out?" I suggested that the MSM was trying to supress McCain voters, especially in the west.
Just returned. In a deep blue state and my town is heavily Demoratic. I usually walk in and vote. This time I was about 5th in line. Though it is a Democrat stronghold I got the distinct impression that with the exception of 2 people, the rest of them were NOT there to vote for Obama.
that’s a pretty fancy neighborhood you’re in there, ms. spectre.
not a single obama sign in my subdivision.
keeping my fingers crossed on this one.
regards to spectre.
There were not enough booths so if you didn't want to wait they offered a clipboard and you could just sit on a folding chair and vote that way. While I was filling out the ballot I heard a poll worker ask if she could help an elderly person fill out their ballot. They were told they could. This is what I heard next from the poll worker: "Jimmy Carter? These are the names of the candidates or you can write in another name".
God help us when people are allowed to vote who think Jimmy Carter is a candidate. I thought about saying something but then I realized that a vote for Jimmy Carter was OK with me.
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