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Connecticut Voting (Post Your Report Here)
11/2/10

Posted on 11/02/2010 6:43:25 AM PDT by kidd

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Voted at 8am at the local elementary school.

The parking lot was full. It was difficult to find a parking space. Cars were parked on the baseball field. But there was only a minor line to vote (2 people ahead of me).

I even caught myself thinking "wow, parking lot is full. There must be a huge line to vote. Maybe I'll come back later to vote". I found a spot to park and voted anyway.

Turns out the teachers were having a conference (no school today for students). I've been voting at this school for years and they've never had a conference on election day.

Showed my ID (as is required in Connecticut). The ballot had most of the democrat candidates listed twice (as Democrat and as Workers party). However republican candidates were listed at the top of the ballot.

There were no irregularities in the polling place, but I found the full parking lot to be unusual.

1 posted on 11/02/2010 6:43:33 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd
I wonder if we could get a DE thread like this going?

That's going to be a fun one to watch....

2 posted on 11/02/2010 6:45:46 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (You can roll a turd in powered sugar; that don't make it a jelly donut)
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To: kidd

Anyone wearing WWE t-shirts? Linda’s husband was on tv last night with “Linda” bumper stickers all over the front of his shirt, and a big Blumenthal banner covering his rear end.


3 posted on 11/02/2010 6:48:53 AM PDT by RabidBartender
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Our family of 5 voted together this morning. The parking lot was full but the lines were not bad inside. We had an anomaly because the dems kept the republicans off the ballot for state rep so ours had to go at the bottom as a petitioning candidate. There are normally enough to fill one side of the new fangled paper ballots (I loved the old diebold machines!!) but today there were three sides. I wonder how many people will forget to turn over one of the pages? And Martha Dean was on that side!


4 posted on 11/02/2010 6:50:50 AM PDT by sorrisi (CAP spending and TRADE Congress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: kidd
Showed my ID (as is required in Connecticut). The ballot had most of the democrat candidates listed twice (as Democrat and as Workers party). However republican candidates were listed at the top of the ballot.

I wonder how many of the dumbbunnies here in CT will mark both lines? Also, how many of those votes will be counted twice?

BTW, the description of where you voted sounds a lot like my voting place. Are you in Middlesex County?

5 posted on 11/02/2010 6:53:02 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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I voted before 7 this AM. When I pulled in the parking lot was almost full and I thought there would be a long line, as there was at that hour when I voted in another part of town. Nope, the place was jam-packed with poll workers and watchers—but hardly any voters.


6 posted on 11/02/2010 6:53:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: kidd

MORE THAN A THUMPIN'

Obama says Dems are in trouble because Americans aren't thinking clearly. He's delusional. Time to put the federal beast back into its cage.

Forget the polls, forget the media spin. Go to the ballot box and put an end to the Dem Party. Throw this putrid congress out on their heads.

Are You Ready to Vote-13sm

Save America2sm

limitations

This ain't going to end well for these Statists

ratsfail

The Rats are shovel-ready for the dust bin of history.

7 posted on 11/02/2010 7:01:25 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: raybbr

Hartford county


8 posted on 11/02/2010 7:01:57 AM PDT by kidd
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voted at 6:00 am in Greenwich - was #2 in line as the polls opened (SWMBO and I always walk to the polls on election day, it’s just over a mile each way). Fair turn out, several neighbors known to vote R, but nothing like the turnout in 2008.


9 posted on 11/02/2010 7:09:32 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Persae Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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My family voted in Milford Ct this AM. 3-0 straight Republican, my college daughter voting for the first time.

More cars than usual in the lot.


10 posted on 11/02/2010 7:12:21 AM PDT by y6162
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Voted at about 6:50 this morning in Waterbury, at Blessed Sacrament School.

There were about 4 other folks in there voting at the same time. Plus about a dozen poll workers/watchers/counters.

I was the 27th person to cast my ballot at that location, per the counter on the only ballot scanner.

11 posted on 11/02/2010 7:51:42 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, JETS!)
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I submitted a report to the local republican poll watcher, regarding the parking spaces.

It was just too odd to ignore.


12 posted on 11/02/2010 8:27:36 AM PDT by kidd
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Voted at 06:45 in the middle school gymnasium. With about 12 people in line ahead of me I had to wait about 5 minutes to check in and get a ballot.

If I lived on a street name in the bottom of the alphabet there would have been no line at all.

My ID was checked as was the ID of everyone else I saw voting.

Voted, scanned and stickered I was back out within 10 minutes of when I started.

Typical turnout for my town at that time of day, maybe a little bit heavier than normal.


13 posted on 11/02/2010 8:50:20 AM PDT by Fixit
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To: kidd; sorrisi; raybbr; 9YearLurker; nutmeg

Whoa, same thing happened at the High School in Brookfield. Parking lot was very full (thought school was in session), no line but the number of cars in the lot did not reflect the amount of people in the voting place.


14 posted on 11/02/2010 8:50:36 AM PDT by mojo114 (VOTE)
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To: kidd

If you know someone who works for an insurance agency, you can get a list of the plates and have them run them to see who owns the cars.


15 posted on 11/02/2010 9:20:23 AM PDT by myself6
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SW Ct - no problems. Except if we don’t vote Himes out.


16 posted on 11/02/2010 9:45:20 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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Wife and I voted together, shortly before noon in Ledyard. Was relieved to see them requiring ID, not once but twice. I wore my "Worst President Ever" t-shirt and no one protested that :-)

Turn out was "busy" but not packed... the back up at the first ID check tended to stay about 5 or 6 deep during my time there.

Like others, I was surprised to see the unfair advantage Democrats had be being listed twice on the ballot, once on the Democrat party line and again on the "working Family" party line. Did a little poking around on that issue when I had the chance and apparently it's legal in CT, "cross endorsement" they call it... certainly an unfair practice but gives me a few ideas for 2012 :-)

17 posted on 11/02/2010 12:11:11 PM PDT by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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Nothing out of the ordinary when the Mrs. and I went at noon. I was actually surprised it was so empty, no one else was there voting while we were there.

There’s still another name listed at our address, I’m assuming it’s a person that lived there sometime prior to us (wonder if they’ve voted in recent elections?) and has been on the list for 14+ years now that we’ve lived there. We tried to get it removed but was told by the SoS’s office that we couldn’t have the name removed, that person had to have their name removed.

As usual, the Dem and Green party sign holders were all toeing the 75’ line as we entered.

I don’t know what to make of it, though. The Dems have a sizeable registered voter advantage, I’m guessing suburban guilt, so it would take a majority of the Indy’s voting R to win it here. It’s far more interesting (read close) than I ever thought I’d see in CT!


18 posted on 11/02/2010 12:40:48 PM PDT by LoneGOPinCT (I'd still rather hunt with Cheney than ride with Kennedy.)
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...gives me a few ideas for 2012...

"The Working Families Party" name cracks me up. Perhaps
Republicans could run under the

"Do It for the Children Party"
"Cute Puppies and Bunnies Party"
"Hitler Was Bad Party"

19 posted on 11/02/2010 1:29:31 PM PDT by kidd
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How about all three? possibly 4 or 5 more.
If this is all it takes, the number of signatures to put a party on the ballot are relatively easy, especially if it’s properly coordinated.


20 posted on 11/02/2010 1:33:28 PM PDT by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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