Re: OT Voting

zxcvbob wrote:

Dimitri wrote:
Today we participate in an unusual event.

The beginning of an orderly transition of government without [the use of] guns, tanks or civil war.

Not every country can say that.

Please vote and be thankful for the privilege.

Dimitri


I voted at about 8:30 this morning. The line was short. I thought about wearing my "Ron Paul 2008" button to cause just a little trouble but decided against it.

The lady at the entrance table where they check the voting registration and give you your ballot said it'd been really busy a half-hour earlier. When I voted, the counter on the voting machine went from 8 to 9; not sure what that means with regard to the previous "really busy" statement.

The lady at the exit gave me my "I Voted" sticker, and on the way to work I stopped at Starbucks wearing the sticker for my free cuppa coffee. The Starbucks girl said they'd given out a lot of cups already.

I went to my usual polling place at 0620 this morning. Been voting there for twenty years. This was the first time - EVER - that I had to stand in line. Generally walk in, get verified as being the proper person at the proper place, cast my vote, go home. This morning I waited for twenty minutes to vote and the line never got smaller. Wife went there at 0730, stood in line about the same amount of time, said the line never got smaller. I just drove by there at 1115 and the parking lot was full and I could see people standing in line outside the building.

I think Louisiana is on its way to a record turnout for a national election.
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