Election Day...

Tour2ma

Sorry, no political thread here, Justin. Just a patriotic one...

Vote early and vote often , but vote or forever keep your peace...

Do not take for granted that which people have, are and will willingly die for the world over...

Tour2ma

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gidrah

I'm already done and am home drinking a beer.

hoosier21

Voted early, good thing, line was growing fast.

Hope we will know who won before 2005.

shack

Voted a week ago. Took 5 min. Gotta love early voting!

Jstas

Already voted, got to the polls at aboput 7:30 and the line was wrapping around teh building and down the sidewalk at 7:30. One guy said it was like that since 6:20 this morning, 20 minutes after the polls opened. I spent almost an hour waiting in line.

Looks like this is going to be a record year for voter turnout.

mhardy6647

Voted at ca. 7:10 am. Mine was ballot #69 recorded in our little town. Looks like turnout will be good in MA.

exalted512

voted through the mail, took me all of a 30 seconds
-Cody

danger boy

I voted by mail last week. it was fun and easy.

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

VR3

For those with electronic voters in the area

Make sure you DOUBLE check what you select, there have been instances where the computer picked the opposite canidate than what you picked...

FWIW

Strong Bad

Will be voting this evening when I get off work.

amulford

Originally posted by hoosier21
Hope we will know who won before 2005.

Amen to that...

Just got done. Took the kids, they were curious and have been studying it lately. Thought it was cute when the little one insisted on "casting" the vote:cool:

Sami

I would but I can't. Hopefully in the next election. Probably wouldn't make any difference here in Texas anyway.

exalted512

kerrys up right now 77-66 at 7 pm
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/
this isnt actual i dont think, its CNN's projected view

VR3

Bush has 4 states, Kerry has 2 (ACCORDING - to the news here)

RuSsMaN

We are all watching the news, lets keep the count of the thread, and stay on topic - the ability for you to excersize one of the most 'American' rights you have, the right to vote.

Cheers,
Russ

BlueMDPicker

Good on you, Russ.

Tour2ma

I third the motion...

This is about the act of voting... not who you voted for, who is winnning who whom, who should have won, etc., etc.

From the looks of things, we and the American people as a whole did their job in numbers not seen since 1968...

Well done...

Strong Bad

Right on Russ!

Regardless of who we voted for, congrats to all who did vote.

For those that did vote, what kind of system did they have at your polling place?

We had the infamous touch-screen units that you feed a credit card type card into, then touch away. No problems at our polling place.

This is a pretty exciting race to watch though.


John

Dennis Gardner

Gotta love livin' in a small town, I walked in at 6PM and walked
right into the booth. My ward is very small and full of elders that voted this morning.

Looks like our turnout was bigger than they expected as I had a manual paper ballot, which is used for overflow votes.

Nice way to end the day, it makes you feel as if you accomplished something.:cool: :cool:

disneyjoe7

Polls open @ 7am in line @ 6:50am 100 people in front of me. Waited 1hr 25min before I could vote. Did this before work, but was 10min late due to voting this morning. Found my wife not in the voter books called her at work told her not to get in line after work. She would have been pissed if she waited 2+ hrs to vote then be turned around if I knew better. She not a strong voter and we moved to a new city 16 months ago so she messed up and isn't on the voter books.

tryrrthg

1.5 hours in line here in Columbus, Ohio. I'm sure you guys will get sick of hearing about Ohio over the next few days/weeks/ months?

disneyjoe7

Originally posted by tryrrthg
I'm sure you guys will get sick of hearing about Ohio over the next few days/weeks/ months?

Well sure happy it's not Florida this year.

Tour2ma

Originally posted by john d. strong
For those that did vote, what kind of system did they have at your polling place?

We were electronic as well for the first time ever. Had a dial in lower right that you turned to highlight a given candidate, punch enter and repeats as needed.

At end got a review screen you paged through using arrow keys and then you hit the big red button on the lower right to "Vote"... easy... kinda like a video game...

tryrrthg

Originally posted by disneyjoe7
Well sure happy it's not Florida this year.

on the local news last night at 9:30 they were interviewing people that had been in line since 5:30. It was estimated that the last people at that polling place would get to vote around midnight! :eek:

disneyjoe7

Well from now on all or at lease some election coverage will be how Florida eff'd up.

Just something you have to live with, along with the Hurricanes.

Tour2ma

dj7,
Quote of the night was on ABC where their FL field reporter said:
"One Florida election official told me they are determined to not be the next Florida."

disneyjoe7

Originally posted by Tour2ma
dj7,
Quote of the night was on ABC where their FL field reporter said:
"One Florida election official told me they are determined to not be the next Florida."

I vote for the "Northern Florida" to be OHIO.

Just is getting too strange around here come to think about it, I lived in OHIO also when I was a kid. :eek:

wodom1

I voted yesterday after I got home from work. I didn't have to wait in any lines and the best part is that the polling place was in a YMCA about 2 blocks down from my apartment. We used the punch card ballots. I believe that they are the same ones that caused all that trouble in FL the last time around.

-Josh

tryrrthg

For those of you that haven't heard. The election is over. Kerry conceded around 11:00 EST...

Ron-P

Voted last night at 7pm, no lines at all. Very glad to see the outcome this morning.