Voting Day, Voting Day!

[Perd Hapley]

Voting Day!  Voting Day!  Voting, Voting, Voting Day!

Yeah.  Voting.  The wife and I are not working this week, so we're going to go out and get a good breakfast.  And then vote!  Yeah!

[SteveS]

Voted absentee last weekend.

[makattak]

I've already voted.

My brand new wife as well.

I'm glad to do my civic duty, even if I'm well aware it doesn't make a difference.

[Sindawe]

After waiting in line for over an hour to vote in 2004, I voted early a week and a half ago.

I may swing by on my way to work, just to see how bad the lines are this year.

[cosine]

Voted at 7 am this morning. Lines were long, but moved briskly. Took 15 minutes, tops.

[Boomhauer]

Voted two weeks ago.

[Nick1911]

I voted.  It took an hour and a half.  Missouri is pretty much tied for the presidential election, so it's all the more important to cast my ballot.

Hope it makes a difference.   

[K Frame]

Voted around 9:30.

Neighbors said it was crazy this morning, but when I voted the line was almost non-existent.

At the same time in 2004 I waited nearly 2 hours on line to vote.

[Brad Johnson]

Voted first day of early voting.

Brad

[BrokenPaw]

My total wait to vote, this morning at 9:00 AM, was 15 seconds, not counting the time it took for the guy with the voter rolls to work out where my last name fell in the alphabetical listing.  (It turns out that 'o' comes after 'k'.  Who woulda thunk?)

It's very nice living in semi-rural Manassas; I'd have waited an hour in line to vote, but it sure is great not having to.

-BP

[freedom lover]

My dad's voting after work.

My brother left to vote at 7 AM. He's voting for Chuck Baldwin  because he can't "in good conscience vote for McCain" because he supports "killing embryos." My brother seems to think voting for what he believes in is more important than his candidate winning. He actually said that!

It doesn't really matter, though, because Obama's going to win our state anyway.

[mtnbkr]

It's very nice living in semi-rural Manassas; I'd have waited an hour in line to vote, but it sure is great not having to.

-BP

Hear Hear.

I'm home today because I had to get my car's struts replaced.  I rode my bike from the repair shop to the polling site (5 miles), voted, and then rolled over to the nearby Starbucks to get my free coffee for voting, then home.  Left the house at 9:20 and was back home at 10:20.  Total mileage, 6.4. 

There were no lines and it took me about 5 minutes from the time I entered the parking lot till I was back at my bike. 

BP, did you hear or see any of the Obama lovefest last night?  Get caught in the traffic?  I had to run to the store for milk and to drop off some movies and I couldn't find parking at the Wellington Giant or the nearby Bloom.  Plates from DC and Maryland everywhere! 

Chris

[AZRedhawk44]

Went to the polls at 6AM today, stood in line for an hour and a half, and it gave me time to think about this inconvenience I was going through... all to vote.  I heard people kvitching about the "cold" (it was an Arizona November morning, maybe 60-65 degrees).  I heard people complaining about the time away from work, or the hour of sleep they lost to wake up early.

And I thought of several thousand men, 233 and a half years ago.

They couldn't vote.  They couldn't peaceably assemble to establish laws for themselves.  They were being systematically disarmed by an occupying army.

They stayed awake that night between April 18th and 19th.  They organized.  They faced the wet, cold New England spring and stood gathered on the Green with muskets in hand.  Barely 70 of them stood off against 900 soldiers at Lexington.

I didn't correct anyone in line, and I didn't give any history lessons, though maybe I should have.

But I did stand my place in line, and I voted.  Because those men 233 and a half years ago wanted that.

[BrokenPaw]

BP, did you hear or see any of the Obama lovefest last night?  Get caught in the traffic?  I had to run to the store for milk and to drop off some movies and I couldn't find parking at the Wellington Giant or the nearby Bloom.  Plates from DC and Maryland everywhere! 

I didn't; I heard about it enough in advance that I left work early and got home before the insanity began.  Traffic was heavier on southbound 28 than it usually is at 4pm, but not unmanageable.  Some of my friends got caught in the Goat Rodeo Of Love, though, coming across town from the west side to my place at 7; they couldn't get through the Wellington area at all, and had to go around.

-BP

[mtnbkr]

I didn't hear about it beforehand and was wondering why both I66 and Rt28 were swamped.  It didn't occur to me what was happening till I got on Center St leaving Old Town Manassas.  That street is rarely swamped.

Chris

[Jamisjockey]

My dad's voting after work.

My brother left to vote at 7 AM. He's voting for Chuck Baldwin  because he can't "in good conscience vote for McCain" because he supports "killing embryos." My brother seems to think voting for what he believes in is more important than his candidate winning. He actually said that!

Good for him.  I now respect your brother.  If more people voted their real conscious, the two party system would crumble.

[K Frame]

"real conscious"

As opposed to voting while they're unconscious?

As truly opposed to voting your conscience?

'tard... 

[ctdonath]

Voted around 7:30am. No line.

Wondered what happened to the kid (16ish) whose dad asked for a Spanish ballot and was told all were in English.

[Sawdust]

Walked right into that one, he did...

Sawdust

[Manedwolf]

Voted around 7:30am. No line.

Wondered what happened to the kid (16ish) whose dad asked for a Spanish ballot and was told all were in English.

Maybe now he'll realize why he needs to learn English.

[zahc]

So how long does it take before we know who won? I've only voted once before, and I don't remember.

[Manedwolf]

So how long does it take before we know who won? I've only voted once before, and I don't remember.

It depends on how close it is.

[roo_ster]

Polls opened at 0700 & I walked the 75m there with my kiddos at 0705.

SInce I was in a hurry to get the kids to school, I voted straight "R" despite my preference for the Libertarian in a couple races.  That plus the "No" vote on bonds for Parkland (county hospital that treats illegals in NON-EMERGENCY situations on my dime) made a total of two ovals I had to darken.

I was #25 at that polling place.

[ronnyreagan]

Oh crap! I though it was tomorrow!

[Lennyjoe]

Took me 15 min to vote last Wed.