Remember: Go Out And Vote Today

[Lucky_Hippo]

Arrived at 61am.

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!

[macms]

Originally Posted by Lucky_Hippo

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

I appreciate all you've done!

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.

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

[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.

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.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by 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.

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)