Posted on 11/02/2004 9:34:45 AM PST by doug from upland
Put info and links about North Carolina here.
I live in the University area in Charlotte, NC.
I arrived at 8:15 am and voted at about 10:45 am. The line was moving slowly, but it was moving.
I did see 3 MTV "get out the vote" types arrive then leave due to the wait in line.
Population: 8,407,248 (2003 estimate)
Capital: Raleigh
I'll post my experience again from another thread...
Record turnout here in Henderson Co., NC too!!! (We're just about the most Republican part of close-to-the-most-Republican county in NC!!)
I convinced my family to get there at least 30 minutes before the ballots opened, and I'm glad I told them! Dad went separately, he was there even earlier, but Mom and I got there at 6:00 AM. There was already quite a line, we voted at 7:20. By the time we left, the line looked like it was 3-4 hours long!! I just passed by another voting place on the way back to the hotel, the parking lot and streets were so packed with cars (lots of Fords and cars w/ W stickers), and the line was sooooo long.
I am SO pumped!!
I live in the Southpark Charlotte area and got a Republican card handed to me (need mostly for voting judges)but did not see any Democrats handing out campaign info.
I live in Forsyth County (Winston-Salem) which is a heavily Republican county. My wife and I arrived at the local grammar school to vote at 6:50 AM. The polls opened at 6:30 AM. Neighbors of ours were a few people closer to the front of the line. The line was huge. We left and are going to return at 2 PM. It took our neighbors almost three hours to vote. I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, but was it HUGH! :P
I voted a little before 11:00, polling place wasn't very busy, found a parking space near the door. Inside had four to 5 people at booths voting, one person at a provsional booth, one man ahead in line. I believe my ballot was listed as number 249 in the box. I think many people waited in lines for an hour or more for early voting because they thought voting day would be busy. I don't know if you will see the major new voters showing up. I'm sure it was busy early, and will be busy at lunch and busy after work.
Awesome. I passed by one of the polling places recently again, the lines were longer if anything. Stick it out as if your life depended on it!
We voted last week here in Morganton, NC. No lines. Today, they're very long. I don't know why people put things off to the last minute.
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I live in southeast part of NC. Voted last week and the lines seem to be steady and long. The same today.
I was voter #524 at a Rowan County fire station. Long line which took me about an hour to reach the door. When I left, the line was just as long as it had been when I first arrived. Several local politicians were working the line, handing out cards and chatting up those in line. From talking w/those around me, I found some Bushbots there!
Hey, Doug!
As predicted, the lines are 1-3 hours in the suburbs and virtually nonexistent in the inner city of Charlotte.
Suburbanites are being disenfranchised by an uneven distribution of voting machines!
Light rain now in the Triad -- nothing serious to the diehard GOP Voters.
Just got back from voting in my precinctin N. Raleigh. Took an hour and half in line and same number waiting to vote when I finally got out. Heavily Repub area, and hope this bodes well for W. Had some troll cow with a big k/ed button prominently displayed walking the waiting line trying to "poll" us, believe me she got a cold reception. God bless the USA and W.
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