In my small town in MA, I had to wait in line to vote. I've never had to do that before. Ever.
And we now have a Republican governor.
The Democrats are pushing a cock and bull story, I think.
“In my small town in MA, I had to wait in line to vote. I’ve never had to do that before. Ever.”.......
Same here in Wisconsin. My wife and I went to vote early in the AM and there was a huge line ahead of us. Unheard of before in our small town of 900 people. The BIG draw here was keeping Gov. Walker at the helm and then the various other races. A real message was sent but apparently the demodummies weren’t home to get it.
I've only had to wait in line ONCE to vote in the last 22 years I've lived in my current home.
That was back in 2008, I had to wait 5 minutes. I was voter #12 right after the polls opened here at 6am. I'm usually one of the first 5 voters every election.
This past Tuesday, I had to wait almost 20 minutes, and I was voter #28 at 6:15am. Our precinct had a whopping 5 voting booths for the entire day.
My wife voted around noon on Tuesday, she was voter #548 and she waited 15-20 minutes to vote.
According to my friends who are a combination of poll workers, election judges and poll watchers it was that way ALL DAY. There were over 30 people still in line at 7:00 when the polls closed, and they had to be allowed to vote according to Illinois law.
I think part of the reason was because we had such a long ballot in Illinois this time. A fair number of referendum questions, a few constitutional questions and a long list of judges to retain or dump.
The main reason however is that we had very high turnout at least in my precinct. Over 91% turned up to vote during a mid-term election. That's a record here.
People were also pretty pissed off that the now former Governor hiked our income taxes a whopping 67% "temporarily" three years ago, and if he were to be re-elected it was going to be made permanent and hiked another 33%. I'd like to believe that alone was a major motivator of getting folks to the polls.