Voting tales

[blackeagle603]

I REALLY think we should start using the purple thumb voting completion technique.

Mike,
You already know how I feel about that! That's a proposition I'd like to see on the CA ballot.

Purple fingers will turn many blue races to red.

[308Mike]

I went and voted today while it was raining. There was quite a few people voting so I had to park a distance away and walk through the rain to exercise my vote. No waiting, if Diane Feinswein was for something, I was against it. Didn't see any Urkel stickers or signs on any nearby cars, saw several for Palin.

I heard radio reports from around the nation of people getting into fights at the polling place, intimidation by people standing nearby with clubs - but everything was peaceful everywhere I looked.

Looks like the K-31 will stay in the trunk all day. Fingers are crossed for McCain/Palin to win, and I'll be making a deposit into the porcelain bank for Obamassiah (and I'll flush twice since it's a long ways to Illinois).

[Bullspit]

I arrived at my polling place at 8:00 this morning. There were several people voting, but only one in line before me. Total time to vote: 10 minutes.

The part of California I live in is a little rural and I don't think there is that much excitement on either side here.

[Ben S]

My prof said that he was at the polls at 6:00 AM today and there were 300 people in line.

I went at 1:45pm, and was in and out in about 10 minutes. It took no longer to vote than it did to get my allergy shot today.

[mekender]

was in at 6:45 and out by 8 am...

[HTRN]

Boy, you guys are in there for hours?

Took me longer to walk there then to vote.

Of course, my luck held true - did I get the table with the hot MILFs? NOOOoooo. I get stuck with the chatty geriatrics, who get a put upon look when I politely coughed, interupting to, you know SIGN THE FRIGGING BOOK. I also got the evil eye for my "Voices" tshirt..

At least it was fast. There and back in 20 minutes.

[ButchS1066]

Stopped by my polling place mid afternoon, was in and out in 20 minutes. 2004 was much the same, though I waited in line over an hour back in 2000.

[morsetaper]

Three people in front of me. In and out in 10 min. early this afternoon. Took me about 3 times that in 2004.

[SoupOrMan]

We switched back to the optical-sensor voting machines this year, having gotten rid of the electronic voting machines in Sangamon County. So I spent time filling in little circles with a black Bic pen. I saw a lot more black voters from the neighborhood this time around, and as usual the election judges were surprised when I brought out my voter registration and my drivers license. After a while I saw a lot of the other people behind me doing the same thing.

I may have started a trend beyond just signature verification, at least for today.

[drice]

CA voter lines result from having an n average of a dozen tax-and-spend propositions everyone has to vote on every election.

True. I had to vote for POTUS and Congressman, State Assy, and Senate, City Chief Counsel, at least 5 different school board members, a dozen state initiatives, and at least 10 city and county initiatives.

I received 5 different official government books in the mail a couple months ago with all the inititiatives explained, pros, cons, etc. It was daunting to get through them all.

That being said though, there was a 15-minute queue outside my voting place this morning, but it wasn't for lack of voting booths (manual with hanging chads possible, not electronic). There were at least 15 booths, but the chick who was looking up names from the book of names in our neighborhood couldn't process people quick enough. Why not have 2, or 12, people checking for names?

My boss had an hour wait, but it was because there were only 2 booths in her voting place. That's just stupid.

All that being said, I didn't have to wait at all. I vote by mail, but procrastinated filling it all out until last night. I just had to drop my mail ballot off with the volunteers behind the table and move on.