The invasion has begun.
Posted on 11/02/2010 10:08:40 AM PDT by davidlachnicht
Went to vote this morning (Woodstock, GA). Precinct had at least twice as many cars in the parking lot as there were folks in the building (voters + workers).
Noted someone in another post had parking problems but little to no waiting to vote, too.
Anybody else experiencing this kind of 'anomaly'? ;-)
Remember that most polling places have other things going on than just voting.
My polling place is a city hall. There is easily many more city employees parked there than voters or poll workers.
Same here in Northern Virginia. Parking went to a spill over lot, which I”ve only ever seen in 2008. But I went up to the second check-in person and voted right away.
Our polling place in N Ga is our communities club house. There WERE more cars parked than voter activity seemed to warrant, but ...
three greeters, three or four verifiers, two assisters, one vote card collector.
It made sense once inside.
Check these cars for union stickers, etc. This may be a strategy to suppress the vote. They may be hoping that making parking difficult will cause folks to give up.
yep...here in NY (westchester county) waited on a line longer than any other i’ve ever seen...there were three different TV vans from three different networks outside the polling place as well..
This is odd that you posted this. I live in W. PA ... lots of cars near the polling place. The polling place is a local elementary school. There were a lot of kids there today yet they obviously had the day off (almost seemed like some kind of daycare???). This had never happened before and I’ve been voting there since 1992.
I live in suburban Buffalo NY 1000 people had voted in our polling place by noon.. as I left people were coming in in numbers.
Most of the adults in our area would be at work now..the polls will be busy tonight
I voted at the local church at 6:30 AM in NJ. There were about 8 cars in the parking lot (I had to park in the second row when I usually get the front row for Sunday Mass). There were about 3-4 poll workers so I’m not sure where the drivers of the other cars were when I voted because it was way too early for 7:30 AM morning Mass.
I witnessed an unusual “mistake” this morning. A construction crew dumped a load of gravel across the driveway of my polling place. I had already voted but stopped to ask what was going on. The contractor said it was a mistake (It was a USDOT Tiger job). The police showed up soon after and made them move the gravel.
The invasion has begun.
Better check the trunks to make sure they’re not full of soon to be “discovered” ballots.
I saw it too, in typically liberal Minneapolis. Also, the election judges there didn’t ID me. I showed up to vote wearing a pair of jeans, a ski jacket and a full face motorcycle helmet. I didn’t once lift the visor of my helmet, much less take it off. They just asked for my name and address and let me vote. Heck, they didn’t even ask questions or treat me “suspiciously” until I prodded them about how a person’s aid was only mentioning DFL candidates to a blind woman and not the GOP ones.
However, when I went to the local pawn shop to look at some used goods, the pawn store operator asked me to take off my helmet and give them my ID before I played one of their guitars.
Surreal.
Same here—two full lots (one for 100+ teachers/staff, the other for 60+ visitors)at 7:50 a.m. Almost turned around to park the car at home & walk when a car pulled out. Brought a book into the polling, expecting an hour or more waiting. No registration line, 6 poll-workers, and 7 folks waiting to vote on machines. No line at all for paper-ballot casting, so I took one and was in and out within three minutes. Think teachers needed to park their cars at the school last night?
Drove up, many cars; thought, "There must be long lines", inside, no lines...Strange.
Wise County, Texas
I was voting this morning at 8:30 a.m. and asked the judge there if they’d been busy this morning (all the voting machines were in use, so I was just making conversation). He smiled, looked at his log, and said: “You’re number (such and such) and that’s more than we usually get all day. When I left, there were people waiting in line for my machine, and the parking lot was being entered by other vehicles. When I passed the place as I came home for lunch, the parking lot there was full of vehicles, with more coming.
I’m very hopeful that the turnout will be unprecedented, and overwhelming!!!
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