They tried to disenfranchise me but I wasn’t having it. I live in a rural area and I have never missed an election. When I got there, for some reason my name wasn’t in their book. I was LIVID so to shut me up, they let me fill out a form AND they let me vote. The workers said that some of the info they received from the Board of Elections wasn’t correct and they weren’t too happy about it. There were about 7 people standing behind me in line but when I left, the parking lot was starting to fill up. In another hour, I plan to call the Board of Elections and blast them for their incompetence.
My whole family voted during early voting. All of us voted McCain/Palin. My husband is chief judge at our precinct and I will go by there this afternoon to take him his lunch. At the training session they were warned of possible “problems” and told to call the police at the first sign.
During early voting, they had some fistfights break out.
I vote after work bump.
Dallas Texas.
Voted a week ago but it took three tries. The first two had two hour wait lines and I did not have time. Third attempt was at a major Republican stronghold and they actually had their act together. I was in and out in about 20 minutes starting with a line of about 60.
Long lines could mean poor management.
There is no way Hussein Obama is going to turn Georgia blue if I can help it. C'mon Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, and Nevada!!! As we say in Georgia... Git R Done!!!
I hope this means that conservatives are coming out in droves. The worst case is if it's a bunch of ignorant kids coming out in droves.
Arizona—Went at 5:30, probably 50th in line...Say a young black woman try to vote for the second time after she had mailed in a ballot. Luckily they caught her. She pretended like she thought she was supposed to be there.
Problems in precinct 3, Lake Orion, MI. Opened at 7:00 AM. I arrived at 6:25 and was about the tenth person in line. At 6:45 however, the line was filling up considerably. After I voted, I went to the machine to run my ballot through and was told it was broken. We submitted them in a secure place within the machine and were told that they would be submitted once the machine was fixed, after the polls closed. They did say that we could come back at 8:00 PM to submit the ballot ourselves. I don’t think there is any intended hanky panky. It’s always been an above board precinct.
Good luck to John McCain and Sarah Palin and the rest of the GOP.
Voted in Philly at 7:30AM. Obama youth out in force. Black committeewoman telling everybody in line that Haliburton made the machines and Cheney owned it. I said “OK with me. I might keep my country for a while longer.” There was no applause. I was number 53 with a 20 or so line of Starbucksoid folks behind me.
South Johnson County Kansas, Overland Park area. Showed up at the polls about 5 mintues after they opened. Wait was about 50 minutes, everything went smooth. I had some poll watcher tell me I couldn’t bring my Kansas City Star newspaper in because it might be seen as promoting a political candidate. I politely directed her attention to the sign on the wall detailing what literature was not allowed in polling places and pointed out that newspapers weren’t included. Then I went back to reading the sports section.
I handed the clerk my license, she asked my address and date of birth. Painless and efficient.
Just mentioned in another thread...just got done voting here in central Ohio and the presidential ballot was set up so Obama was the first choice and McCain was the 6th choice in the middle of about 10 choices....most of whom i never heard of
I went to vote this morning at 8 am at 56th and Second Avenue in Manhattan. The line was about an hour and a half wait. I came to work and will go back mid-morning hoping things will ease up a bit. It is a high liberal area. I am the token Republican in the Sutton Place area. LOL!
Voted for McCain/Palin, Saxby Chambliss, and Phil Gingrey in Marietta, GA (northwest Atlanta metro area). My neighbor and I were in line at 5:30 AM (the polls opened at 7:00 AM). We were in the first 20-25 people to get in to vote, and we were finished by 7:30 AM. When we left, the line was huge. There were a lot of African-Americans who had gotten in line early (my neighbor and I were the only two white people in line early on), so I’m thinking that they were mainly Obama voters. But Cobb County is a VERY red county.
Turnout in Georgia is expected to be 90%.
GO VOTE!!!!!!!!!
I saw some older woman who was trying to vote in my precinct(a Detroit suburb). She said that she had changed her address yesterday from Jackson, Michigan. A young man who was with her was already voting and he kept looking away from his ballot to coach her on what to say. She eventually was told that she would have to return to Jackson to vote.
my daughter just voted in arlington, texas. she said there were no lines at all at 7:30- am
In SC. Got to the polls at 6:45. Polls opened at 7:00. We voted at 8:00. I was voter #151.
Nothing unusual to report.
Except that they ran out of “I Voted” stickers before we voted. So at most, they had enough stickers for a tenth of the precinct.
I got to my polling location at 6:45 and there were about 50-75 people waiting. Doors opened at 7:00 and I was out of there at 7:45 or so. When I left, there were 200 or so in line. Oh, our county reported 30% of registered voters voted early also.
I’m in a pretty conservative suburb of Atlanta. Like someone else mentioned, everyone was pretty somber, like there were in there to do a job and get it over with. I think there was only one or two people having any real conversation.
I heard on the radio that all of the counties surrounding Atlanta were showing a 45-60min line. The counties of Atlanta (Dekalb and South Fulton) had about a 10-20 min line. I don’t know exactly what this means, but most of the Obama support will come from the Atlanta counties.
I arrived at 06:00 and and found about seventy people in front of me. There were 15 to twenty Diebold machines set up. For the first time, everyone was channeled to exit through a back door to improve efficiency. After the one hour for the polls to open and fifteen more minutes to file through the line, I was out by 07:30.
Brisk turnout in North Raleigh (Republican Area). I voted 289th at 8:30.