Remember: Go Out And Vote Today

[elderboy02]

Just a friendly reminder to get out there and vote.

Please do not discuss politics.

[dccraft]

I was #23 this am at my local precinct. Pretty good line and heavy turnouts are expected.

[elderboy02]

I was #23 this am at my local precinct. Pretty good line and heavy turnouts are expected.

Yeah.... I am glad I did an absentee ballot. My local voting place looked packed!

[TripleF]

Voted early with the absentee ballot. My daughter got to vote for the first time this year as well.

[The Professor]

The lines they're showing on the news are insane! Regardless of party affiliation, everyone should be proud of what's expected to be record turnout this year.

Wife and I are headed in at 10am. :tu

Hey mods ... can we get an "I Voted" badge for the next week? :D

[ahc4353]

Done! Small towns are great, the only person in line ahead of me was Alina. :)

[md4958]

That means i have to drag my butt away from CA to go vote???





j/k Im going when my wife gets home at noon from work (and voting on her way home) so she can watch the little guy.

I was gonna take him with me, but i dont feel like chasing him around the gym at the local middle school while waiting in line for an hour

[dunng]

Done... :ss

[TheRealBonger]

Vote is in , :ss hope it counts

[MTB996]

Voted Saturday. No ID necessary, just a name and address.

Remember: Vote early and vote often!

[landhoney]

Done, only a 10-15 minute wait. I was with my wife so the time was well spent.

[ir13]

done deal

[icehog3]

I'm going. :)

[kgoings]

Done, about a 45 minute wait. I showed up 10 minutes after the polls opened.

[Redbaron]

Going this evening.

[mrreindeer]

hope it counts

Of course it does! It's so we're not like this guy: http://www.cigaroutcast.com/forum/images/smilies/marionette.gif

I'm goin' in after work today.

[tsolomon]

Done, it took about 90 minutes.

[Mark]

Voted two weeks ago! Yea for NC early voting!

[Beer Doctor]

#49 in my district:tu Only took 15 min for me.

[Tombstone]

Voted Saturday. No ID necessary, just a name and address.

Remember: Vote early and vote often!

That's scary. :fl

[rhdad42]

Did my civic duty at 6:45 this morning.

[replicant_argent]

Voted Saturday. No ID necessary, just a name and address.

Remember: Vote early and vote often!

The lines they're showing on the news are insane! Regardless of party affiliation, everyone should be proud of what's expected to be record turnout this year.

Wife and I are headed in at 10am. :tu

Hey mods ... can we get an "I Voted" badge for the next week? :D

That's scary. :fl

I am a huge proponent of the Large Inkstained Digit, to prevent fraud. :D
Inky finger? NO more voting for you, One Year, Back of line!!!

No badges needed.

[D_A]

Voted two weeks ago! Yea for NC early voting!

The early voting lines were crazy here. My neighbor stood in line for more than two hours the other day before he hit the door to the library and gave up. I went this morning and had no line at all. I guess everybody else stood in the early voting lines:D

[gettysburgfreak]

Was there at 7:15am, walked in cast my vote, was out less than 2 min later. I love living in a small town

[SmokinAFuente]

I went in last week, was in and out in 15 minutes.

I have to admit that there were a few positions up that I had no idea were open and never heard of the candidates. So instead of just guessing or going with a certain party, I wrote in Alice Cooper or Denny Crain.

[hotreds]

Remember: Vote early and vote often!

As someone once said: "When I die, bury me in Chicago so I can keep voting!"

[Zipper]

Had the absentee ballot in two weeks ago. Girlfriend lives in Chicago - Michigan ave is pretty much shut down she said. I work in DC - People in the office waited in lines over a mile long this morning (6 am - 9:30 am).

[Gophernut]

I am done also. Got there around 8:15 walked out around 9:20, and I live in a small town. I think everyone was there.:)

[AD720]

I've been reading some stories about problems in Philly. Piece of cake in my neighborhood. I was in and out in about 2 minutes.

[Lucky_Hippo]

Arrived at 6:21am.

Polls opened at 6:30.

Out around 7:05.


45 mins well spent!


Thanks to all the servicemen here for giving me the opportunity to vote.

I appreciate all you've done!

:usa

[macms]

Thanks to all the servicemen here for giving me the opportunity to vote.

I appreciate all you've done!

:usa

:tpd: I voted.

[SeanGAR]

10:55 .... three people in line in front of me. I love living in a small town. Maybe 6 or 7 minutes, but much of that was letting elderly voters jump in front of the line. Geezers ..... sheesh.

[acarr]

It took all but about ten minutes but I waited in line for about a minute of that.

[The Professor]

Was about 10 minutes for the wife and me -- longer line than we can recall, actually. The place was hoppin' for such a small town.

[ahc4353]

I wonder how many first time voters today? And I don't mean 18 year olds.

[silentjon]

Right after work - my voting location is next door to me.

[Prozac_Puros]

I'm done! Are the robo calls going to stop now?

[Starscream]

#48 at my precinct this morning. 6:45 a.m. Big turnout expected.

[kaisersozei]

Got in line at 6:15 under a steady rain, made it into the school gym at 7:00, marked my paper ballot in about 30 seconds, and then stood in line for another hour because the ONE optical scanning machine at our polling location was jammed and no one knew how to fix it. It would come on, then shut off, annoying alarms sounding, then restart, work for a few ballots, then jam again, alarms sounding, etc. Bunch of elderly elections officials huddled around pushing & pulling on things--one guy, no lie, smacked the side of it like my dad used to do to "adjust" our console color TV. :rolleyes:

They finally decided that they shouldn't keep nearly 600 people couped up in the gym for so long and went to "Emergency Back-up Plan B", which was to have everyone drop their ballot off in a black box by the door, to be scanned in later.

There were dozens of elections officials and lawyers from the Protect the Vote campaign observing, but apparently only 1 tech crew for our entire county. Nothing like a little paper jam to screw up an otherwise well-orchestrated voting day.

[MarkinAZ]

I'm a headin' out the front door right now. Talk to you later:ss

[mmblz]

no line for me. hole in the wall voting place, plus going mid-morning...
:tu

[mikeyj23]

Went at 11:00 this morning - there were three electronic booths and about 8 paper booths, and I was second in line for the electronic and the paper booths were empty. Somehow I feel better about voting electronically than on paper, although I'm sure some feel the opposite.

It feels good! There will certainly be record turnout this year.

[Cigarmark]

Got there at 6:15 am and the line was about 200 deep. I was home drinking coffee by 7:30.

[Siebec]

Done. In and out in less than 10 minutes, plus the voting place it a short walk from home.

[icehog3]

Done....5 minutes in and out, went with the paper ballot rather than waiting 45 minutes for the new machines.

[detroitpha357]

I took my 8year old daughter with me and allowed her to shade in the vote. (something for her to talk about years from now) We got there around 7:15a (my old high school, Finney High) and left around 10a. Almost 3hrs but it was well worth every min.:D GoodAfterNoon Fellas:ss

[lightning9191]

I voted....took me an hour and 5 minutes. I was #546

[kaisersozei]

Got in line at 6:15 under a steady rain, made it into the school gym at 7:00, marked my paper ballot in about 30 seconds, and then stood in line for another hour because the ONE optical scanning machine at our polling location was jammed and no one knew how to fix it. It would come on, then shut off, annoying alarms sounding, then restart, work for a few ballots, then jam again, alarms sounding, etc. Bunch of elderly elections officials huddled around pushing & pulling on things--one guy, no lie, smacked the side of it like my dad used to do to "adjust" our console color TV. :rolleyes:



Apparently the tech crew showed up sometime later--my wife just called to say she was in & out in 7 minutes. (must have taken lessons from me...! rofl)

[ahc4353]

Done....5 minutes in and out, went with the paper ballot rather than waiting 45 minutes for the new machines.


So we have heard............ :)

[rack04]

Voted at lunch. I was pleasantly surprised how short the lines were.

[tnip23]

done, small town, no line. I took my 3 year old daughter, told the poll workers she was registered by ACORN. The Republican worker laughed, the Dem. (who is actually a friend of mine) didn't. I thought it was funny anyhow.:D

[MarkinAZ]

Done:tu About a 35 min wait in line while talking with my neighbors. We have the "ink-a-dots" here. Took about 1min 30sec to vote for everything, and even got my sticker "I Voted" too:D

[KenS]

My lovely bride and I were numbers 62 and 63 this morning. About a half hour wait, but pretty well managed here.

Now for a late night of watching CNN...

[rack04]

Done:tu About a 35 min wait in line while talking with my neighbors. We have the "ink-a-dots" here. Took about 1min 30sec to vote for everything, and even got my sticker "I Voted" too:D

I had a paper ballet too with "ink-a-dot". I thought it was a little strange they had us using sharpies to bubble the ballot. When you turned the ballot over to the back and bubbled, it bleed through to the front surprising close to the bubbles on the front.

[68TriShield]

Done

[Sauer Grapes]

done, small town, no line. I took my 3 year old daughter, told the poll workers she was registered by ACORN. The Republican worker laughed, the Dem. (who is actually a friend of mine) didn't. I thought it was funny anyhow.:D

Man, how funny would it have been to go dressed as Mickey Mouse?

[Sancho]

Voted, No line to speak of for me. More amazingly there was only a pair of people for local stuff heckling me on the way in and out of the precient, normally its a mob out their badgering you.

[Waynegro1]

0715 this morning and I was in and out by 0735. 20 minutes, not bad. I'm wearing my "I Voted" Sticky, I mean sticker with pride!! :usa

[SmokeyJoe]

Wifey and I voted last Tuesday... our polling place was pretty packed today when I drove by.

Should be a record turn out this year. :ss

[RGD.]

I went to my local polling place at 1:30pm. I was back out to my truck at 1:36pm. Walked in - straight up to the check-in - checked on the list and right over to the electronic machine. One minute later I was on my way out the door.

Now four years ago I was there for almost 45 mins.


Ron

[G G]

Done, took 2 minutes. Like Al said, in a small town it don't take long.:ss

[Ace$nyper]

Got my vote in.

Got harassed by a unnamed party so I stole mints from them.

[shilala]

I just voted. The poll is two doors down at the firehall.
The neighbor girl was my pollster, didn't wait one second, and an old-timer helped me push buttons.
The whole thing was painless. :)

[JE3146]

I voted last week :D

Gotta love mail in ballot!

[rack04]

After I voted I went to Starbucks and drank free coffee. Tonight I will dine on free Chick fil-A and close out the night with free Ben and Jerry's. All because I voted. :)

[Tombstone]

After I voted I went to Starbucks and drank free coffee. Tonight I will dine on free Chick fil-A and close out the night with free Ben and Jerry's. All because I voted. :)

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

[rack04]

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Well it is free for me. That's all I care about. :ss

[SimonTemplar]

Took the misses and I about 20 minutes. Pretty big crown even in the off time we went; they just had lots of folks working the check-in.

[SonsofClubDeck]

Hit it on Saturday.

Didn't like Borat that much but he makes this video much more enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX40RsSLwF4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX40RsSLwF4)

The end was completely unexpected.