Yesterday was election day here in the states. Was it busy at the polls? Mine were dead.
I voted on the 1st, thanks to a sloppily written initiative back in 1992. My polling place was dead.
It was a good total turnout though. In Colorado, absentee voting is pretty much on-demand now, and the early voting polling places are catching on. The turnout is spread over about two weeks.
I was trampled by a crowd of one.
Not busy, but I was voting at 7 am. I was actually surprised that I was the 18th to vote.
No, because Kentucky didn’t have a single election yesterday. There was a chance that Lexington would have been voting on condemning the water company and buying it for the 3rd or 4th time, but the Kentucky Supreme Court still wasn’t entirely sure that a citizen referendum was legal under Kentucky law.
I voted before 7am and had to wait for the booth to get free. Only because my wife was voting at the same time and got in before me.
There were more people outside hawking their candidates than there were voters.
I voted at 7:30 AM and there were exactly two other voters there. On the other hand, there were about 25 poll workers.
It was pretty busy, but I waited until 6:15 PM or so. The voter turnout in my county was only 30%, so I guess a lot of other people had a few beers after work 
My polling place was empty when I showed up, and as I was leaving it was starting to fill up. I was really sad when I heard the results on the radio this morning, but kind of expected it as I am in Texas and all. Makes me want to move to a blue state.
From a confused Canadian: what the huh y’all? You don’t get rid of Bush until 2008…
There are elections pretty much every year down here, just not for president. We have ballot initiatives, local governments, etc. For instance, New Jersey and Virginia had elections for governor, Colorado had some financial ballot issues, and California had Arnie’s Hodgepodge.
All members of the House of Representatives are elected every two years, on the even years. Last year and next year. Senators are elected every six years, but their terms are staggered so that every two years 1/3 of the Senate is up for election. President, of course, every four years.
And it’s not all in November, either! My city’s local government elections take place in April of odd years.
We had a city-only proposition and several proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. There were no elections for positions here.
We elected a mayor and three city council people. 70 people voted. Town’s pop. is 220, not sure how many are eligible to vote in this precinct.
When I voted at 5 p.m., there were four voters voting (three ladies dancing, etc.)
Mine was very busy, I voted around 7pm and had to wait a couple minutes for one of the 15 or so booths to free up.
Mine was medium busy at around 4:00 pm. The annoying thing was that during the day I had actually been in three other polling places in the course of my daily activities (the church preschool I have to walk past to get to my car, my kids’ elementary school, and the parish hall of their church school), but I had to drive someplace else to actually vote because of the way they have things carved up.
There were a good dozen people at my polling place yesterday, which is saying something since there are maybe 3000 people here.
Just under 80 people total voted in my division yesterday; I know this because the new voting machines produce printouts on long paper strips, and the strips are posted in the polling place (which in my case is the lobby of my apartment building) for a few days after the election. For comparison, about 300 of us voted in the last presidential election, IIRC. This is quite an off year; the most exciting item on the ballot was probably the city charter reform meant to reduce corruption in awarding city contracts.
Yeah, but there were also two state supreme court judges up for retention. Here in Central PA, the pundits were talking about this being an indicator that Pennsylvanians are pissed off about the pay raise, since these judges also got the raise.
At my polling place, there was actually a line, which is surprising considering that all we had were some municipal and county races, the candidates of which were largely unopposed.
Robin
I’ve signed up for always voting by mail (i.e. absentee ballot), effective this election. Don’t know why I waited so long!
In my county in PA. we had about 21% turnout, which actually surprised me… Its actually pretty funny if it weren’t so sad. Outside you have about 10-12 people campaigning. Inside you have four people working the polls. And the entire 8 AM voting crowd was me and the wife.
Turnout for local elections is pathetic.