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When I got to my precinct in downtown Brooklyn at 9:15 am I was voter 152. There were 4 machines, 2 of which were for my apartment complex: a group of 7 16-floor buildings rumored to have 100% voter turnout -- almost all Dem. :( . Of the 2 machines for the complex, one was broken. I didn't see one person vote on the other 2 machines for my entire 30 minute wait.

I voted straight Republican, which was a welcome change from election 2000 when the mechanism for voting Republican for Senator was disabled and I had to vote for Lazio on the Conservative line. (This was a typical Dem. dirty trick -- 2 friends from other parts of Brooklyn found their mechanisms disabled as did Don Imus, who voted from Manhattan.)

I wore my Sore Loserman t-shirt under my coat to vote, along with my flag tie as a headband.

That might be something you might want to report to the fraud people. If you are voter 152, and for 1/2 at 9:30 you saw no one, then unless you missed a big morning crowd, that might be a problem area. Did you ask any of the poll workers was there a big turnout before you got there? One might be stupid enough to answer!

When I got to my precinct in downtown Brooklyn at 9:15 am I was voter 152. There were 4 machines, 2 of which were for my apartment complex: a group of 7 16-floor buildings rumored to have 100% voter turnout -- almost all Dem. :( . Of the 2 machines for the complex, one was broken. I didn't see one person vote on the other 2 machines for my entire 30 minute wait.

I'm confused. If there's 100% turnout (practically impossible in and of itself) in a group of huge apartment complexes that must hold thousands and thousands of people, how could you only be voter #152?

I voted straight Republican, which was a welcome change from election 2000 when the mechanism for voting Republican for Senator was disabled and I had to vote for Lazio on the Conservative line. (This was a typical Dem. dirty trick -- 2 friends from other parts of Brooklyn found their mechanisms disabled as did Don Imus, who voted from Manhattan.)

Well, you do need to keep in mind that the majority of those machines contain parts that are literally over 100 years old and are no longer being manufactured, and there's a perpetual shortage of machines in perfectly-working condition. So there's a good chance they just said "Hell, as long as it lets them vote for Lazio on SOME line, let's just go ahead and use it." But if that ever happens to you again, you should note the machine number and call the NYCBOE to complain and then call all the other various GOP-based fraud hotlines.