Curled up in a fetal position under the covers, whimpering softly, as I suspect Bush will win . . .
good evening friends,
as a poll worker, i will be at the poll site at 6:45 am to dig the voting booths out from storage and set them up, secure the ballot box, open the book of registered voters for my precinct and get ready to monitor the election.
my day will be spent inotialing paper ballots, (we use an optical scanners in my state) signing in voters, making phone calls to the election commissioner to find out where the people not registered in my precinct but showing up to vote anyway are supposed to be voting.
when the polls close, i will help verify that the number of ballots cast match the number of signatures in the registered voter book, take down and re pack the voting booths, package up the registration book and the ballot box and drive them to the election commissioner’s office. i should be home in time for teh 10:00 news to get some peliminary results, but after a long day at the polls i will go to bed early and catch the official results the next day.
My son will want to watch me vote again, but this year I will be voting where he goes to school, so I may do it before school, but probably after, as I like to take time and push the metal pen through about 10 times Just To Make Sure, like I did last time.
After voting, we will probably make some Kerry signs and hold them up for traffic on our street.
Then we will eat, walk around, and turn on our fave, FoxNews.
Oh.
And I’ll be praying.
praying hard.
Booze sounds good either way, but if it looks like it’s leaning toward Bush I may also check out the Canadian want-ads online. I was considering relocating to a Caribbean island but it appears to be a bad time for that.
I got this card in the mail that I could mail in to get an official vote-by-mail ballot, so my choices are to trust the U.S. Post Office with my vote or the Florida elections officials. :smack: I fell like I’m screwed either way.
I’ll be at… whatever polling place the Election Commission assigns me to, working! 
Yep, I’m going to be a poll worker. I fully expect to be the only person there under the age of 98.
Some of us are just too 
for words.
The numbers are over on the wall and the turnstile is to the left of that.
The sacrifices I make for democracy.
Helping The Bushes get out of DC by sundown! 
- Jinx
My first presidential election was Clinton vs Dole, so I’m not too much more experienced than you are, but it seems like the majority of elections are fairly one-sided, and you know who’ll win before you go to bed.
From memory: Reagan vs Mondale was never even a contest; Bush Sr. vs Dukakis was kinda close but Bush always had an edge; Clinton beating Papa Bush was no surprise; and Bob Dole was basically a sacrificial lamb ('tho I voted for him anyway). W Bush vs Gore was the first close race that I can remember. I was in grad school at the time, and I stayed up until well past midnight (EST) before I went to bed, and didn’t find out the results until the next day.
This time around, it’s painfully obvious that neither Bush nor Kerry really wants to fix anything. Bush just wants to go fight terrorists, and Kerry (as near as I can tell) is a zombie that has been created by Ted Kennedy so he can rule the nation vicariously. Neither candidate seems to care about the average American worker. I figure that I’m screwed either way. I’ll vote for the guy who I decide is the lesser of two evils, and then pray that he won’t fuck us up too much.
I’ve already put in for the next day off, because I will be up all night watching the returns. Unbelievably, they accepted my request for a vacation day.
I am firmly anti-Bush, not so firmly pro-Kerry, and I’m planning on consoling myself in the probable event of a Bush win with the pathetic idea that it’s really best for the country in the longer run. If Kerry wins and fucks the world up, and I voted for him, I’d feel bad. Better to vote for the underdog; as I always vote Democratic, this tends to work out well for me.
(I have this faint idea that it’s best for America to utterly dominate the world, especially the Middle East. I can’t morally or logically support the idea; it’s only a vague feeling; so I vote Democratic as my conscience guides me, and hope and pray for the best despite my own vote.)
Nothing else to add.
Carry on.
The day of the election, I always print up a blank map of the US and color the states blue or red as the results come in. (I’ve done this since 6th grade.) This year I’ll either go to a bar with some friends, or invite some people over to watch the results with me - it depends on who’s doing what that night.
Better bring some earmuffs Indigo, you’re probably going to hear some expletive laden froth flecking tirades.
My wife and I were on our honeymoon of sorts (we both worked in the software industry at the time and so our honeymoon happened a year after our marriage) during the last election. We wound up at the bar at the Four Seasons in Seattle watching the elections and being terribly confused. In trying to keep up with tradition and our on going efforts to be as annoyingly pretentious as possible, we will be sipping martinis at the Four Seasons in downtown Toronto sometime after the polls close on the East Coast. Depending on how the election goes, I will be making periodic calls to my friends in the States. “Yes, the basement is finished; it has its own kitchen and bathroom and you’ll love Toronto”. “Hi, did I mention the NDP picked up seats this year? Yes, I have a spare room”.
I will not be admitting to my citizenship while doing so, expect to any other expatriates who might be around. They are easy to spot, given the long suffering looks on their faces whenever Bush is mentioned.
I remember last time I went to bed thinking it was Gore with a clear shot, and woke up and found out I would be led for four years by a chimpanzee. Then I heard the really bad news: it was going to be Bush.
I haven’t decided whether I’ll vote and bury my head in the sand, or vote and try to pay attention.
I really, really think they shouldn’t be allowed to announce ANYTHING until the next morning.
Normally I spend election evening glued to the television. After the debacle of 2000, however, I plan to go to a movie that night. If I weren’t a Mormon, I’d probably get sloshed. But I figure a movie will do the trick.
I have to go out; I can’t just watch a movie at home, because my husband will burst into the bedroom every 5 minutes to tell me the latest tidbit. This is more agonizing than watching it myself.
Carry on.
Watching Veronica Mars, assuming it hasn’t been cancelled yet. Or pre-empted. In which case I’ll probably be playing Morrowind.
I"ll be working as an election judge, go have a couple of beers and then checking out the results on TV. I already took the morning of the 3rd off.
I miss the last election - I was at a resort in the US Virgin Islands with no TV, no radio and limited internet access. It was nice to not have to hear the news and ads.
Whistlepig, who thinks he should start booking a low-tech trip every 4 years.
Wow, I wonder how many people nationwide are taking Nov. 3rd off and if it will be worse than the “Star Wars flu”? 
What can we dub Nov. 3? “Election Hangover”, the “Liberal Epidemic”, “Bush Immuno-Deficiency” (BID).
I have to duke it out with another friend who, when I told him the idea, told me he was planning pretty much the some thing, but one or both of us plan to have some friends over for dinner and watching the returns. We may consolidate our gathering at his place, because he has a bigger apartment (and a bigger TV, with CNN, which I don’t have.) However, he doesn’t cook, so if we compete for guests, I intend to entice them with homemade chili.
A couple of the invitees will not be eligible to vote, being furriners and all, and for one of them it will be the first Election Day she has spent in the U.S. So we hope to be able to indoctrinate, ummmm, I mean educate them as we go along.
After an unsuccessful run for New York City mayor, Jimmy Breslin said he would never again run for office as long as the bars were closed on election day.