This morning I trudged a few blocks to a local senior center to cast my ballot. I walked in, waited in line, gave my line to the somewhat alphabetically-challenged poll worker, waited for her to look me up in the poll book and signed my name. I then went into curtained booth of the big, gray, old lever voting machine, pulled the big lever on the bottom, flipped down the little levers for my candidate, flipped the big lever back, and went about my day.
It was pretty busy when I was there, but 8:00 a.m. is no doubt a peak voting time. I was the 20th Democrat to vote in my small electoral district (a few square blocks of Manhattan’s Upper West Side), and when I got out of the booth there were five or six people lined up waiting to vote in my district, and similar numbers at the four other districts at my polling place.
What was interesting was on the Democratic side, we voted for both the Presidential candidate and about half a dozen individual delegates (and one alternate). On the Republican side, the ballot just showed the names of the Candidates.
Colorado has caucuses today; our primary is just before the convention (why we have both, I have no idea, but it’s confusing as hell!) Anyway, no, I won’t participate. My guy has already dropped out, and I’m not excited enough about either of the frontrunners to attend the caucus.
Yep - I voted in CT at 8am. Not too many people out yet, but I cast the 67th vote of the morning, there was a ticker on the machine accepting the paper ballots. We just had the prez candidates on there. Obama was #1A. I believe he will stay there to the end as well
Not yet – we have caucuses this evening. Unfortunately, just as these thunderstorms turn into slushy snow and icy roads. Not sure how this will affect the outcome – perhaps fewer elderly voters? Fewer first-time voters? Fewer hard-core voters?
I haven’t voted, and I don’t know if I care to. Neither Hillary nor Obama is a particularly attractive option to me. I’m only a registered Democrat anyway in order to have some say in my local elections.
It bugs me that Newsday, at least, has been crowing about how “this one counts” because our primary for once occurs before the races are totally decided. Sure, we still have a choice, but I’d rather we had the full slate to choose from.
The current primary system sucks. There should be a series of nation-wide voting rounds instead, dropping the lowest tier each time until one candidate has a majority.
Dude, the polls aren’t even open here yet! Let me have a cup of coffee first.
Actually, I’ll be heading to the bank, the District Office, and the polls after the school day is over (in that order). Changed my party affiliation just so I could vote for Obama and against Hillary.
I haven’t registered to vote yet in CA, so no. But I just popped into this thread to say that this song is going to be stuck in my head all day. Thanks, Weekend America! :rolleyes:
I was going to try on my way in to work but I had to get gas instead. I really, really hope my event today doesn’t run over time because I’ll be cutting it close as it is.
I voted this morning, hoping to avoid the worst of the bad weather, since I had to walk to my polling place. It was about 8:30 in the morning, there was a short line, and I was voter #40. Since I live in a small town, and a storm was about to break, that’s really not too bad of a turnout for that early in the day. The poll workers said that lots of people come in in the evening, after work. I do believe the weather will keep some people away though. It is quite nasty out there.
I voted this morning at 9:30. According to the tally on the machine, I was the 224th voter. I have no idea if that’s more or less than usual for a primary.
Not yet; leaving at lunch to hit the polls before the after work crunch. The predictions are for an over 50% turnout statewide. I don’t know whether to be happy that it’s so high or depressed that my expectations are so low.
