Posted on 11/07/2006 6:01:51 AM PST by watsonfellow
Just dropped our ballots off at the court house in Grants Pass. Steady stream of voters parking and placing ballots in the box.....raining at 12:14 pm and hello to the Freepers who can see the court house from their home...
Our little polling place is packed! The parking lot is full of cars.
I vote this evening when my husband gets home...'round 5pm.
I voted in Plymouth Township, MI (western suburb of Detroit) at 2:15. It didn't take long, but the poll workers said they had never seen a turnout like this. I was #363. I think Plymouth township went for Bush in 2004. Bush won the City of Plymouth by something like 5 votes!
Sounds like my dad's experience signing up with XM radio. He spelled his name out slowly 6 times before the person on the other end finally got it.
Sounds like what I used. A new system used during the primaries. We had had the touch screens. I heard a poll worker say it was a new statewide system. ?
Here's a good story being reported now. A man went to the polls and forgot his voter registration card. He had ID but that wasn't enough. He had to go home and get his card before he could cast a ballot. After he returned with it, they let Governor Sanford vote.
Voted in Harvard, MA an hour ago. People going in and out of the high school to vote, small line. Paper ballot. Unfortunately, republicans put up very few candidates statewide. Kerry/Healy (Gov, Lt. Gov) and maybe two others. Marty Meehan ran unopposed (dem. in congress). Grrrr. He's an old pal of Howie Carr's and promised years ago that he'd only serve two terms. (He lied.) The only signs outside were dems...for Deval Patrick, running for Gov. (The Boston Globe thinks he walks on water, but he's a DC carpetbagger, with backing and money from the old Dukakis machine. Patrick, who happens to be black, talks a lot about Together we can! (Can what?) He never commits himself. Never says anything that makes sense. But Liberals love him. It's sickening.
I saw that - and I'll bet the CommieCrats will still whine about fraud.
Me, too.
Although there was this one optional touch screen machine, no one was using it. It is essential to have a paper trail that can be recounted. I understand that some touch screen machines do not provide any means to recount.
My husband and I went to vote at the same time we usually do. Our polling place was MOBBED! Even in presidential election years, it isn't all that busy ( at the time we go, which is why we always go around 2 o'clock ) and we never have any problem finding a parking space. Not so this year.
They did away with the booths and the lever machines. This year, we had to fill in little ovals, with a felt tipped pen, and then slide it into a big black box,that sucked it in. Everyone was talking about this, since there had been NO mention of the change in the local paper. But nobody was having any problems with it and everything is going smoothly here.
Fatso Kennedy is running for reelection in MA, and the republicans found someone to run against him...whom I voted for. Never saw one single republican or dem. ad for that race, though. If you ask me the name of the republican I voted for, I couldn't tell you. (But he got my vote anyway.) Now I'm depressed. The thought of Fatso waddling around DC for another six years. Uggh.
Sorry, nothing exciting.
When I voted, there was a DUmmie chick at the polling place. She was wearing all black and a DU t-shirt. Her face was covered in light makeup. I almost burst out laughing because she looked like she was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask but didn't actually have a mask on.
She was yelling at one of the workers that there were no paper ballots and something about the "DieBold controversy". When another worker said her name out-loud she got mad and said "they are listening". I kept thinking about DUFUs and almost laughing.
The good thing is that turnout was very low in my heavily-DUmmie precinct. With the exception of that DUmmie, I didn't seen anybody else that looked crazy. In 2004 it was a zoo.
I like that optical scanner and I don't understand why EVERYBODY doesn't use it.
Voted for the first time in my new hometown of Colorado Springs (Gorgeous weather, the snow-capped Pike's Peak smiling upon us). I have no history here, so I asked the judges, they said it was "very busy" though I only waited a couple minutes. The precinct is (I'm guessing) 75% Republican. Process is very easy here, with paper ballots.
Voter turnout in my heavily Republican district was described as "Excellent"
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