Posted on 11/04/2008 8:32:10 AM PST by jrooney
I voted about 10:30 this morning in downtown Cincinnati. I have voted at this same location since 2002 and there has never been more than 3-5 people voting and never a line.
Today, there was 2 people in front of me in line and all 8 voting stations were filled. Within 5 minutes 10-12 more people showed up and got in line. My ballot was #189, where in the past it has been around #20 (I always vote mid morning), so it was a big turnout, at least for this precinct. It is located in the central business district, so not a lot of people live in this area.
The only thing out of the ordinary is that they were using scan ballots they had to tear off from a book. They kept on getting torn outside the perforation causing the scanner to reject them. I saw several people who had to fill out a new ballot because of this. No big deal, but would be a major headache if this is going on in bigger precincts.
High turn out means republicans are showing up. The polls in LA California Reseda are two or three times as long as I have ever seen them.
Just a suggestion.
Hello fellow ohio pal! I too am from a small town...and this morning the lines were huge like they are reporting everywhere. They say nearly all who could register, did. And there are Mccain/Palin signs dominating all around, no matter where I go in and out of town here!
I LOVE that we are a battleground state too!
GO MCCAIN!
pray for victory...
Where are you? I am about 30 miles east of Toledo along Lake Erie. Lots of McCain signs here too.
I did my part in Cooper County, MO this morning.
I just want to THANK all of the PUMAs for figuring out the truth about the Obama / Media machine. I hope conservatives and PUMAs are happy tonight, no matter how late. I have more respect for Hillary than I ever had because of the quality of her supporters.
Haven’t been out yet but the morning guy here in L.A. was crowing over being able to go out and vote for the HISTORIC “Barack.” All his supporters think they are on first name basis with the guy. You KNOW he is too arrogant to even care about any of them. And Handel is Jewish. If Barack didn’t have his necessary melanin to be “historic,” no way would all these Jews vote for a man who is this close with Palestinian terrorists.
Minority turnout appeared massive at least in my precinct. However with the registration verification process, fraud should be minimal.
sorry no video yet, I just captured those this morning from TV.
in Alaska...they have the Rats, they have the Pubs and then they have the "coalition"......made up of some Pubs and some rats....
now the "coalition" tried to kill Sarah over this tasergate thing.....that goes to show that you can't always trust other people....
but if the pubs lose seats in the House and Senate, a new "coalition" might be in the making...I can't believe all rats are totally bad, and want the destruction of America...at least I hope not...
South Whitehall Township (suburb of Allentown, PA). Waited 30 minutes to vote (went about 11 AM). Have never waited that long in the past 25 years.
Party ID for South Whitehall is 43% GOP and 30% DEM.
My polling place has two precincts under one roof 80 and 81 by number and there were two lines one for each. I live in 80 and we have our own booths.
I suspected something was wrong because the line for 81 moved three times as fast as the line for 80 meaning it took three times as long to get to the booth. It seems that there were people in our booths that just could not fill out a ballot in over thirty minutes that it took me five minutes to fill out while waiting for a booth. Picture the scene in Men in Black where Will Smith and the other candidates are filling out the MIB questionaire and you have me filling out a ballot while waiting for a booth.
I suspect that based upon the Obama’s stickers on cars in the parking lot that didn’t move, that these slowpokes were deliberately holding up the process so that people that had to go to work would leave before voting as the other line that went three times as fast was from a neighborhood that would have naturally favored Barack Obama.
Hers the puma’s log of events, they too are seeing record republican turnout
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/election-thread-what-are-you-seeing-on-the-ground/#comments
my computer area is covered with bits of paper and notes and lists and electoral maps.....I am going crazy here.....just need a spot for my glass of wine......
3 people ahead of me in line at my precinct at approx. 11:05 a.m.
As I was approaching the school door, people were outside handing out their campaign literature and one guy handed me a potato chip bag Clip with "Keep Brennan for Supervisor" printed on it. I thought that was pretty cool because I needed one so I voted for the guy..........
Did you get the feeling they were Republicans, or McCain voters?
Bump
FR is too slow this morning...hope it picks up before the results start coming in.
Heavy turn out at my polling locale - (suburb of Richmond, VA) - overheard, as did several coworkers at different voting sites, that this election is “payback time” - (hopefully, this may sway undecides to McCain by the time they cast their ballot) - also witnessed how difficult it seems to be for some Acorn-types to shade in a small oval with a pen.
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