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FatDomDaddy -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:34:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: Aynne88 Paper ballot, #2 pencil, super quick, yay. Makes me feel good. [:)] Psst,I will be booking a hotel room in College Park Md...sometime in the next couple of day for Jan.20th....hope to hear from you.lets celebrate this in style!!!! Bring a gun.

Archer -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:37:51 PM)
Spent 40 minutes in line before the doors opened and then 30 minutes to get to the machine 5 minutes to use the touch screen and on my way home after casting a protest ballot for Barr. LOL

popeye1250 -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:37:58 PM)
Three hours wait here! Line around the back of the jr high school, up to the front then serpentine into the auditorium. Mostly senior citizens. Ten machines and only 8 of them worked.

Archer -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:40:28 PM)
Yeah heard that they had Republican poll watchers expelled. Then heard that they had one Black Panther Party member with a billy club making sure nobody was intimidated voters. LOL.

justgemmie -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:50:27 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Archer Yeah heard that they had Republican poll watchers expelled. Then heard that they had one Black Panther Party member with a billy club making sure nobody was intimidated voters. LOL. greetings Master Archer i just watched the video about the Black Panthers being at the pole. why would You believe the man with the billy club was making sure no one was intimidated? personally, i would have felt intimidated by HIM ...... gemmie

philosophy -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:52:01 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: Aynne88 Paper ballot, #2 pencil, super quick, yay. Makes me feel good. [:)] Psst,I will be booking a hotel room in College Park Md...sometime in the next couple of day for Jan.20th....hope to hear from you.lets celebrate this in style!!!! Bring a gun. ...why? What are you hoping for?

Musicmystery -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 1:53:00 PM)
quote: heard that they had Republican poll watchers expelled I just heard a quick blurb on the news, so take it as such--- Apparently they were there to attack Dems only, and knew better, since some, when approached, fled.

Archer -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:00:47 PM)
Different blurb Music, the story I was speaking about Republicans being expelled was Philadelphia (CNN) – At least six Republican election board workers in Philadelphia were told to leave their polling precincts because they did not belong to the party in the majority and had not received a court order to work on election day, Philadelphia County Board of Elections Supervisor Bill Rubin confirmed. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/paphiladelphia-republican-reps-removed/ And then the Black Panther party members was also in Pennsilvania. http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/04/black-panther-intimidation-at-the-polls/ Justgemmy the making sure nobody was intimidated was sarcastic, sorry that didn't come through

kdsub -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:03:34 PM)
I always try to vote around 10 am... that way I miss the before work and lunch voters...Today there were 38 voters ahead of me ..It was a half hour in and outer. We had 6 touch screens or the option of the scanned paper ballot. People were split between each. My mother was at the same voting venue at 5:30 AM...even then she was #110 in line. It took her till 7:15 before she got out. Butch

ResidentSadist -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:15:07 PM)
In the Florida the record turn outs created a 3 hour wait line in some places. I should have know there would be record turn outs when my day started with a knock at my door and neighbors asking where they the nearest place to vote was.

slvemike4u -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:19:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: Aynne88 Paper ballot, #2 pencil, super quick, yay. Makes me feel good. [:)] Psst,I will be booking a hotel room in College Park Md...sometime in the next couple of day for Jan.20th....hope to hear from you.lets celebrate this in style!!!! Bring a gun. Why would I do that FDD,will you be there?

slvemike4u -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:21:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: philosophy quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: Aynne88 Paper ballot, #2 pencil, super quick, yay. Makes me feel good. [:)] Psst,I will be booking a hotel room in College Park Md...sometime in the next couple of day for Jan.20th....hope to hear from you.lets celebrate this in style!!!! Bring a gun. ...why? What are you hoping for? Philo,that is what passes as a concession speech from FDD......LOL

stef -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:31:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BitaTruble So, any lines for the collarme folks? What kind of method was used where you vote? Any problems? I went at 11:30 and there was one person ahead of me and I was in and out in 3 minutes. They used the same Diebold optical scan machines that were compromised in the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy." I wonder who I ended up voting for. ~stef

Musicmystery -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 2:43:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: Aynne88 Paper ballot, #2 pencil, super quick, yay. Makes me feel good. [:)] Psst,I will be booking a hotel room in College Park Md...sometime in the next couple of day for Jan.20th....hope to hear from you.lets celebrate this in style!!!! Bring a gun. Perhaps worth mentioning that after the election, such fodder becomes federal crime, and the Secret Service has no sense of humor.

Marc2b -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 3:38:17 PM)
Every time I have voted it has been the same in my home town. The lines are not to long. Polite, little old white haired ladies ask for your name, find it, then ask for you to sign in. One police officer eating a donut (really!) and looking bored. My poling place is an elementary school and this time around I got to be an example for a class of UMs! As I approached the booth the teacher told the class, “now this gentlemen, as you see, is going to step inside the booth and pull the big lever, which will close the curtains. Now that no one can see him he can make his choices by pushing down on the little levers.” She went on for a moment about why it is important to vote in a democracy. When I was done I made sure that I opened the curtains with a flourish. “And now he’s done,” said the teacher, “having done his civic duty.” I felt really proud. I waved to the little cherubs as I left. Walking away, I heard the teacher ask the class who the Presidential candidates are. Most of them immediately blurted out, “Obama!” When the teacher asked them who the other candidate was, they were stumped and then one boy said, “Washington?” This does not bode well for McCain.

DarkSteven -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 5:06:29 PM)
I voted early with a touchscreen. I made all my selections, then the screen showed a summary and asked me to confirm. I did so, and then my choices printed out, and I was asked to confirm again. I did so, and the vote was entered. So I voted electronically, with a paper backup if there's a challenge. The drawback is that there was no provision for write-ins.

DomKen -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 6:02:18 PM)
Just got in from cleaning up the polling place. We had 80+% turn out. We had no machinery problems and the only actual hiccup was angry people complaining because people in front of them were taking a long time. Many people brought their kids and many took photos of the top of their ballots or got others, teh judges demurred, to take photos of them with their ballots. Our longest wait was probably about 90 minutes right after we opened. It was a truly memorable day no matter who wins.

Irishknight -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 6:13:51 PM)
I had a 10 or 15 minute wait to get to one of the 3 machines set up at our community center. The lady behind me in line was shocked to see that we didn't have booths. Everyone still had plenty of privacy but she wanted tobe completely hidden. She was starting to get upset and the third time she stated (loudly), "In Chicago, we have booths with curtains," I could no longer contain myself. I turned around and said, "I thought they needed cages up there, not curtains." She laughed and agreed that some probably did and she seemed to calm down.

DomKen -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 6:16:51 PM)
We didn't have booths in Chicago. We haven't had booths in years. We have a little table thing that unfolds out of a briefcase. It has little shields on each side but no curtain.

ThatDaveGuy69 -> RE: Voting lines and methods (11/4/2008 6:37:42 PM)
South suburbs of Chicago here. Got to polling place about 6:30. Waited in line about 20 minutes to register - only 2 little old ladies: A-L & M-Z. Paper ballot: Name1: XXX XXX <--- X's used to represent black boxes Name2: XXX XXX Draw a line with the black pen to connect the black boxes next to your candidate. XXX --- XXX Super simple and an unambiguous paper trail! Slide ballot into the scantron thingie to validate/count and get your "I Voted" sticker! There were only 5 voting privacy things so many of us filled out the ballot on the floor. The whole thing took <30 minutes. Chicago area is reporting a turn out in excess of 80%. Freakin' awesome! It is now 8:35 in Chicago. ABC news has Obama at 200, McCain at 90. ~Dave

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