I usually early vote, like ladybug, but this year I just ran out of time. So I went to my polling place (with my brother) at about 6p. As we were parking, our mother pulled in the lot too, so we went in and voted together. About a 10 minute wait, using e-voting machines (no other option). Nationally, very little was going on on my ballot – a Senate race (noted lunatic Katherine Harris or career politician / astronaut Bill Nelson) and a House race (20-term CW Bill Young or some guy named Samm Simpson) – but we voted for governor, state house, and most of our other elected executive positions, as well as 6 constitutional amendments, 7 county charter amendments, and a slew of judicial retentions.
I got up early and was at the precinct about 6:45. We had all new workers at my precinct: 3 high-school kids (Ohio’s answer to the poll-worker shortage; I think it’s a good idea; maybe it’ll make voters out of them), a lady who rides my bus, and another lady. Annoying guy who always used to try to hand me my sticker sans backing wasn’t there this year. (I’m not usually dressed for work when I go vote and I like to wear my sticker to work.)
Rest of the day was pretty routine. Work. Grocery store. Surf the Dope and related boards.
Now I gotta do some more work. (Been putting it off for an hour or so…)
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Got up at the crack of 10 (I normally get up at 5, I have Tuesdays off, though.), voted, sent my husband to school. Now I’m going between checking election results and reporting them to my husband via AIM and writing my midterm essay. I know I’m going to have a late night between watching election stuff and studying.
Thanks for the thanks! Much appreciated. 
Several voters thanked us as well, and that was nice.
Everything went smoothly, except for one voter using the TouchScreen. There must have been Oil of Satan on her fingers, because the machine did not want to accept her touch. It was bizarre. She’d touch it – nothing. I touched it – no problem.
Several kids/teens came with parents and said they were looking forward to voting themselves.
Everyone commented (unfavorably) about the negative and too-numerous TV ads and the constant phone calls. Only one person was glad for a phone call, because otherwise she would have gone to the wrong precinct.
All our numbers came out right, so if there’s a problem this time, it’s not in Woolstock, Iowa!
Funniest thing was a voter saying she wouldn’t vote for one of the Secretary of Agriculture candidates because “she’s an organic farmer, and we can’t do organic farming in Iowa!”
Oh, and our turnout was over 50%, which is excellent. We had nice weather – that helped.
My Election Day started late - co-workers suggested I sleep in so I could be ready to go to the county Republican HQ and get quotes and result tonight. I voted in the afternoon, then put in some time at the office, went to dinner, and grabbed my notepad and went there with some other editors from the company. We’re all weekly papers, so the pressure wasn’t like what a daily paper or TV station would get, but it was a career highlight for me anyway and I enjoyed it. I also made a brief appearance on the radio, offering some commentary on the re-election of Peter King.
I sent in my absentee ballot about a week ago. After that, today, I got to have my TV programming interrupted a couple of times for election results—I think all the props went as I voted for or against…and as for the candidates for office? I think I’m evenly split between “disappointed but not especially surprised” and “grimly ambivilant.” (I don’t think anyone I voted for made it in—not that I expected them to.)
Eh. Next year, I’m officially going to register as “decline to state.” That’ll last until I form my OWN party, I guess.
We had a huge turn out. I think it was perhaps as big as the presidential election. We also had a huge number of brand new voters. (Wisconsin allows for same day registration.)
The table with new registrations was jammed the whole day. By numbers our turnout yesterday was 65% but probably 10% of those registered yesterday. Many of them were change of address, but there were many new voters. My daughter’s old babysitter registered and voted for the first time. That was fun. One of the county’s workers was supprised because he said that city hall had been jammed for the last two weeks with people registering. He thought it would be pretty light.
We didn’t have any stickers. Lots of people were very dissapointed.
I have a severe inner ear infection, but if I could crawl to the doctor then I could vote, dammit!
Do you know how hard it is to completely fill in circles when they keep moving around the page?