[StoneColdGOP]

First one at my polling place this morning. They hadn't even sworn in the poll workers.

Yes on Recall
Tom McClintock for Governor
No on 53
Yes on 54

[B-bone]

"First one at my polling place this morning. They hadn't even sworn in the poll workers. "

My informal, unscientific observation suggests a high turnout. I voted this morning on the way to work. Usually I am the 10th - 15th voter in my precinct. Today I was #24.

We changed from punch cards to an optical scan ballot. It is roughly leger size paper with two sides. One had to complete an arrow rather than fill in a box. There is an arrow pointing to each name with the center portion missing. One fills in the center section of the arrow pointing to the person one wishes to vote for.

It is a long ballot (3 columns, double sided for candidates). Expect a drop in voters between question #1 and #2.

[skeeter]

SCGOP, do you know of a real time online source for election results?

[Sabertooth]

I got to my polling place about 6:58, and was 20th in line. The guy in front of me was there with his Dad, and was getting a provisional ballot. He'd moved away and reregistered by mail, and never got a samle ballot. He'd also applied for absentee, and didn't get that ballot either. So he would have been voting provisional at his old site, but L.A. had condensed five sites, including mine, into this one church across the street from the doughnut shop. Much confusion for him.

I saw one other provisional ballot while I was there.

One of the pollworkers said at 7:01, as we were lining up to be verified in the registry, that there were more voters then in the room than there had been for the last election all day.

By the time I got into the booth, there were probably 50 people lined up.

I voted:

Yes on Recall and removal of Gray Davis from office
Tom McClintock for Governor
Yes on 53
Yes on 54
Yes on Cambodian doughnuts.