Yes, Free Republic is moving very slowly, if at all. And while DuPage Country doesn’t care if you ask for a GOP ballot, it took my husband and I ten full minutes to get through to vote, and we were the first in line (and voted earlier — different day!). We’ve got tooooooo many senior citizens running our polls. And when a youngster is there to help out, they just brush them aside like they are useless “kids” or something. Anyway, we got our two in for Adam and two for Patrick, so that’s all that counts in the end.
I don’t vote for people who are unopposed and when I tried to put my completed ballot in the machine it was rejected. A “judge” explained to me that it was rejected because the machine wouldn’t take it if any of the spaces were left blank and asked if I wanted to leave it that way. I told him indeed I did. So he explained to me that he would have to over ride the machine, he acted as if he were aggravated with me for not filling the ballot out all the way. I told him to “over ride away mate”.