Posted on 10/13/2020 7:57:43 AM PDT by Mrs.Z
I just participated on the first day of early in-person voting in Texas. For years the choice of early voting stations was limited, but this year there were many. I choose what I believed would be an obscure spot. I was wrong, lots of people "found" it.
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I know the lead poll watcher who was in charge of this site. She said they anticipated a good turnout, but this was beyond what they were expecting.
Some observations:
1. Nearly one hour wait. 2. Enough poll workers, too few machines (10). 3. More than half were retirement age or older. 4. Next largest group were working age people over 40. 5. A few in there thirties. 6. I saw no twenty somethings, even though there is an open college close (TCU). 7. The building is large, so the line was all still indoors as I left, but SOCIAL DISTANCING WAS IGNORED BY ALL. (There were tape markers as you got in the polling room, but those were also ignored).
I hear the polls are packed.
This is going to be such a route, barring massive voter fraud.
It’s all looking up for Trump in Texas. Turnout is high in Dallas, Harris, Bexar, and El Paso counties.
I bet you saw no pink, green or blue hair.
I will be working today at noon at the polls but I got paranoid as we are very short staffed so I left home early and voted to get it behind me. Line was steady and long...about 30 mins. Inner city Houston (Heights).
LOL!
Nope, no woke kids voting.
The few African-Americans in line were friendly and chatty.
Maybe Blexit really is working.
Just an anecdotal observation. I remember in 2018 being in the gym, and some black guys working out near me were talking about the Kavanaugh hearing and how he was being railroaded without any evidence and just an accusation. Maybe the purple-haired feminist women liked the hearings, but I think it really pissed off a lot of black men, who let’s just say have some historic context why they’d be mad at false accusations.
I’m in North Fort Worth and wanted to run by my polling place at lunch. They have this nifty wait time dashboard, updated 2 minutes ago. Right now I would have a 30-44 minute wait.
https://www.livevoterturnout.com/tarrant-nov-03-2020/Early%20Voting%20Dashboard.html
You did your bit.
Dallas County really isn’t as liberal as many assume. It’s more 60/40 leaning Dems, as cities tend to lean Dem, but it’s not far left at all.
I’m also going to really stick my neck out here—I think Travis County might be slowly moving rightward. Yes I said it. Call me insane. Yes, I know Austin is historically liberal...but military veterans keep moving here in droves. I’ve heard Austin has the second most amount of special operations veterans, only exceeded by Fort Bragg.
But most of those counties are Democrat! why would you think a high turn out would be good for trump in these counties.
Agreed....enthusiasm for our guy is so high, I don’t think any amount of fraud will beat us, though post election tallying will tighten our sphincters.
Heavy, early, in-person voting skews right. Enthusiastic to vote, and unafraid to vote in person, .......rather than left-leaning mail-in.
I figured I wait a few days before trying to brave the long lines.
My experience has been that I wait much longer in early voting, than I did when voting on Election Day.
Agreed!
Just a heads up - that’s no longer a solid indicator of liberalism.
Long lines = People not afraid to vote in person + mirrors the enthusiasm for Trump at the rallies.
https://www.livevoterturnout.com/tarrant-nov-03-2020/Early%20Voting%20Dashboard.html
Thanks for posting that! We waited over an hour and a half the last we voted at our local polling spot.
It’s a solid indicator of goofy.
I’m in Houston - Very large HOA and voting is set up in the club house. Line was too long this morning, I’ll go again tomorrow.
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