Your voting experience

[Amberchgo]

If you voted today, what was the polling place like?



In Chicago at 6:30AM there were three people in line. All 10 voting booths were full and I even had to wait maybe 2 minutes until one opened up.

This actually seemed like more people there than in 2012 which surprised me.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

From my thread:

I voted! I got my new sticker.



I voted for all of the Libertarian candidates, none of the uncontested Republicans and one Republican who is running against a woman dem I know personally who is a complete dingbat, and I don't mean as much in the ideological sense as much as I mean the person who asks you to help find the glasses that she has propped up on the top of her head. In no way, shape or form do I really want her in charge of anything.



I also got to vote against holding teachers to Common Core test scores.

Fuck Common Core.

It sucks.


PS - It was as busy as usual at 7AM.

 

[bronzeage]

I live in a gerrymandered Congressional district that was drawn to give an advantage to middle aged white. I had a choice of about 10 middle aged white Republicans who all pledged to defeat Barack Obama's radical agenda more than any of the others.

They also pledge to repeal Obamacare, outlaw abortion, except in the case of interracial marriage, propose a Constitutional Amendment to ban Gay Marriage except in cases of rape or incest, and build a fence between Louisiana and Mexico.

 

[Amberchgo]

I live in a gerrymandered Congressional district that was drawn to give an advantage to middle aged white. I had a choice of about 10 middle aged white Republicans who all pledged to defeat Barack Obama's radical agenda more than any of the others.

They also pledge to repeal Obamacare, outlaw abortion, except in the case of interracial marriage, propose a Constitutional Amendment to ban Gay Marriage except in cases of rape or incest, and build a fence between Louisiana and Mexico.

People with common sense and decency have no interest in running for office. I mean seriously, why would a normal person want to be in politics?

All we get anymore (on both sides) are extreme idiots.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I live in a gerrymandered Congressional district that was drawn to give an advantage to middle aged white. I had a choice of about 10 middle aged white Republicans who all pledged to defeat Barack Obama's radical agenda more than any of the others.

They also pledge to repeal Obamacare, outlaw abortion, except in the case of interracial marriage, propose a Constitutional Amendment to ban Gay Marriage except in cases of rape or incest, and build a fence between Louisiana and Mexico.

Same here. I voted for Truth, Justice and The American Way (aka straight Democrat ticket) during early voting last Friday.

Fuck Greg Abbott.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Aquagal]

No waiting at all, about 5 voting booths were filled.

I even left my car running, it was nippily this morning.

 

[Mr_Jon_Thon]

Mailed it in, and haven't answered the phone in two weeks.

 

[thør]

If you voted today, what was the polling place like?



In Chicago at 6:30AM there were three people in line. All 10 voting booths were full and I even had to wait maybe 2 minutes until one opened up.

This actually seemed like more people there than in 2012 which surprised me.

In Chicago, don't you get to vote in every booth at the polling place?

 

[Aquagal]

Mailed it in, and haven't answered the phone in two weeks.

I got a 6 a.m. call this morn that I thought was gonna be Sarah again.

Fortunately it was just a northern lights announcement.

 

[thør]

I got a 6 a.m. call this morn that I thought was gonna be Sarah again.

Fortunately it was just a northern lights announcement.

I sent two of those out as texts at 6a. Do you need on the list, too?

 

[Mr_Jon_Thon]

I got a 6 a.m. call this morn that I thought was gonna be Sarah again.

Fortunately it was just a northern lights announcement.

She gets around then. She's called me twice before I decided I'd turn amish for a bit.

 

[Aquagal]

I sent two of those out as texts at 6a. Do you need on the list, too?

Yes! Sometimes my early riser announcee gets the week off and sleeps in.

 

[Amberchgo]

In Chicago, don't you get to vote in every booth at the polling place?

Of course not.

In the first booth you vote.
Second booth you vote your dead grandpa's vote
Third booth you vote your dead grandma's vote

Dead uncles, aunts, etc etc etc.

 

[Aquagal]

She gets around then. She's called me twice before I decided I'd turn amish for a bit.

So you're moving to Pennsylvania?

 

[KUJACK]

If you voted today, what was the polling place like?



In Chicago at 6:30AM there were three people in line. All 10 voting booths were full and I even had to wait maybe 2 minutes until one opened up.

This actually seemed like more people there than in 2012 which surprised me.

No waiting, Took 10 minutes

 

[Mr_Jon_Thon]

So you're moving to Pennsylvania?

Once I buy a horse and buggy, I'm outta here.

 

[Aquagal]

A little Walking Dead funny.

http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w629/Moivulous/78418ae16e4bfc9739aae61dcfe99102_zps411addf2.jpg

 

[Noor]

1pm City of St. Paul, MN.
The polling place was pretty much dead. I was the only voter and then 5 more people came in as I left, I knew 2 of them, and almost all the poll watchers.
This place just feels like a small town.

 

[toubab]

If you voted today, what was the polling place like?



In Chicago at 6:30AM there were three people in line. All 10 voting booths were full and I even had to wait maybe 2 minutes until one opened up.

This actually seemed like more people there than in 2012 which surprised me.

Walked straight in, signed my name on a paper, showed my driver's license, was told I could vote, signed my name again, this time on a reader of some kind, then was given a slip of paper and pointed toward the voting machines where an attendant took the slip of paper and set up the machine so I could vote on it. Voted all third party, walked out. Took less than ten minutes.

 

[PayDay]

Same old same old except for the creepy guy that heads the school board was running unopposed.

 

[lovecraft68]

In RI my options for Governor were Loser R and Loser D and some Indy.

I went Indy because in last weeks debate loser D and R went at it to the point they looked like eight year old children name calling and stamping their feet.

The experience itself was fairly smooth, I got out of work at 3 to beat the after work rush and was in and out quickly

 

[Tongue_Twisted]

I just returned home from voting. No waiting. I saw one of my son's team mates
That I had not spoken with for awhile. Spent more time catching up with him than it took to get checked in and vote.

 

[Skiddles2014]

I mailed mine in last week.

 

[Que]

I turned in my early ballot at a picturesque, turn of the century train station. Across the street from a jail built of iron bar and rock that William Henry McCarty, Jr. once escaped from.

I had intended to turn in my ballot farther south, mostly for social reasons, but after picking up some tools decided to just head back to the closer location.

All the poll-workers were Democrats. I have a nodding acquaintance with two and a third used to be my bartender.

I was tempted to vote for the libertarian who runs every year for governor, but the last thing we need is another Janet Nepolitano.

Several of the local offices had the option of a write in (no one was running as a write-in) or a democrat unopposed.

I voted for the Democrat for Justice of the Peace over the Independent because I have gotten correct decisions out of him. Once, I had to pay a fine, once I was (justly) exonerated.

County Attorney who is a Democrat (like most lawyers) and a friend (unlike most lawyers) and has in the past encouraged me to run for an office was not up for re-election or he would get my vote. Not because of friendship but because his deputy rendered a correct decision and decided not to prosecute me on an offense where I freely admitted to the behavior but deny that the location where the incident occurred qualified as an offense under the statute.