Ahhh... Good times!
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?
Ahhh... Good times!
SE Alabama, city of 65,000. Precinct is about 50-50 black/white or to respond to your question 50/50 Red/Blue. Walked into the precinct at 11:45AM After waiting 3 minutes for the lady to find my name on the voter roll, it took 2 minutes to vote and out the door.
We use 11x17 sheets of paper and use a black magic marker to fill in the middle of an arrow that points to the candidate’s name. The paper is then inserted into a machine.
There were about 30 people sitting at the tables filling out the voter form when I was voting. I asked and was told about 1000 people had voted out of a precinct of 5,000. This was the most I’ve ever seen in this precinct at any one time. The black turnout is apparently high.
Just voted in “blue” Montgomery County MD, which is actually commie Red because of the taxation and wealth redistribution.
Anyways, we have a polling literally 30 feet from our house, but the sent us to a church about one mile away. Waited 90 minutes and the process was pretty efficient. The poll watcher said they’re doing over 200 an hour since this it opened.
The crowd seemed to be more repub than commie, but there were the random Obama shirts and a few crunchy looking characters but mostly small business people and parents with school aged kids waiting in line. Talked to a Navy vet excited about finally being able to vote for McCain.
It will probably be a blue district again but I was happy to see a lot of people real patriotic Americans voting for McCain instead of just voting for the black guy.
My Precinct is Ontario, CA in San Bernardino County. Red Precint in a Red County.
I arrived at about 8:00 A.M. there were about 10 booths up. No line to speak of. Voted straight R ticket, all the way down to city council. Voted Yes on 4,8, and the Vetrans Bond. No on everything else.
My precincts 2004 results:
851 Total registrations.
263 for Kerry
395 for Bush
San Berndardino County totals in 2004:
REP - GEORGE W. BUSH & RICHARD CHENEY 289306 55.17%
DEM - JOHN F. KERRY & JOHN EDWARDS 227789 43.44%
Very Red in suburban northern Hamilton County, TN.
Son just called to say he voted in Northern Virginia (Springfield area), which I assume is blue. Anyway, he said it took him under 5 minutes. Would have taken even less time but some idiots don’t bother to read signs and got in wrong lines.
He, of course, voted straight Republican.
I voted at 11am today here in St. Charles, Missouri. The turnout was higher than I have ever seen. There were clearly more young voters than usual here but I don’t know how to take that. This area is definitely a Republican stronghold.
My husband and I did early voting in Arizona (hopefully RED) and sent our ballots in about two weeks ago. I got nervous about the mail and decided to call today to check on them.
I found out that you could go to the county recorder website, input your info including your voter ID to find out the status of your vote. When we did it, we found that the recorder had noted our votes were received. I now feel much better!!
I would encourage any other early voters to do the same.
***not a word was spoken — like waiting for an execution.***
Voted early, first day two weeks ago, then drove hubby and waited outside for him last week.
We’re in TX, an uber conservative city (Fort Worth).
HUGE numbers, no young voters, MANY more blacks than normal...
but while I was waiting both times, people asked me questions: “how does this work, I’ve never voted early”, “it’s been years since I last voted”, and “I’ve never voted in this state”.
In other words, they were people who would not normally have been there and they GRIM and SERIOUS just as you saw.
Still no “youth vote” detected. I was the youngest guy there and I'm mid 30’s.
Odd and intimidating African American male with a big sliver peace sign on a chain was hovering around the polling doors, two additional AAs going over papers inside the door. I was told they were with the “elections” by a neighbor. I don't know why the extra attention but, if we have this oddness here, I can't imagine what the heck happens in the battle ground.
Arrived at the polling place in Roselle Park, NJ, at around 9:30. About 5th in line, waited no more than 10 mins. One of my neighbors down the block was running as an at-large councilman, but with a “D” after his name. He didn’t get my vote, but if I see him I’ll tell him I did so he’ll continue to snowplow our sidewalk & driveway this winter! Unfortunately, my vote here in NJ will do nothing to stem the blue tide. I was so focused on the Presidential race, that I forgot to cast votes on the 2 referenda.
My gf thought the voting was at the local school. It was at the library instead. I told her if she’s voting for 0bama, the voting is at the school. :^D Actually, she was initially for 0bama (Oprah factor), but I asked her opinion on a few issues, and she realized that there is no way she’d vote for 0.
The county website puts up # of voters so far at various times of the day. The last one they put up was the county as a whole was 15% at 11AM CST (with about 25% of the voting day expired). There were no major differences in turnouts by precincts that tend R or tend D. I live in one of the most R precincts in the county. I was voter #327 out of 1399 registered when I voted at 130PM CST.
But people in my precinct have jobs, and the polls opened after most went to work. Iowa actually stays open until 9PM CST, so plenty of time for those who work to vote afterwards. No line to vote for me, but 130 in the afternoon is a slow time I'm sure.
There was a voting disruption according to one of the poll workers. The vote is at the fire station, and they had to move all the stuff out of the way to get some of the trucks out. Very windy today, and there was a grass fire that started a shed on fire. So small town volunteer fire fighters had to dash off to save the day again!
Voted Orange County, Ca...turn out 3 times the norm; as determined by the length of the line and time it took to vote (1 hour)...lots of surfer dudes in line...seemed to be a lot of O supporters...way more than I expected in conservative OC anyway...saw 5 of my neighbors there (I have never seen them at the polls before!)...3 out of the 5 were O supporters...I’m hoping/thinking the quieter people on line were mostly M supporters...this is going to be interesting.
According to a friend who was an election judge there (Obama supporter....) they'd been very busy for the first few hours. I know that a lot of folks have early voted in this precinct -- mostly D. So if the turnout was heavy, perhaps the Rs have made a showing.
Cute anecdote: a mother was there with her extraordinarily cute adopted Chinese daughter (maybe 5 years old), showing/telling her about how great it is that we live in a country where we can vote so peacefully. As I went to turn in my ballot, the lady asked if her daughter could watch it get read by the machine. I asked if she wanted to put the ballot in. In an admirable show of good manners, she started to shake her head "no," but her better nature kicked in and the shake turned into a nod. She got to help....
Yeah, the mom was probably a Dem (they seem to have a near lock on Chinese daughters hereabouts), but you can't fault her style of education.
Spoke to the lone McCain supporter holding a McCain/ Palin sign outside the Boston Public Library. The lady was about 60ish or so. She stated she had been flipped off a number of times. One man walked by her holding the hand of his son ( a child ) paused in front of her and stated to his son “ this is the face of evil “.
Stated that Chanel 5 also refused to get a shot of her although they took shots of all the moonbats with Obama signs.
Democrats are so hateful. How is it that Republicans get the reputation for being hard-hearted? I have never heard of a Republican doing anything near this nasty.
The poor child, being brought up by such a hateful, spiteful parent. Hopefully someday he will leave home, move to a "Patriotic American" state, and un-learn the things he is learning today.
Poll worker checked my voter reg. card, ID, asked if I wanted to vote electronically or on paper. I insisted, "Paper. I want a record of my vote."
She smiled; I sense she knew exactly what I meant.
Straight R ticket. All good to go. Hubby voted. Five minutes max start to finish.
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