What little thing happened while voting bugs you?

[Balog]

But the Democrats' signs carry messages such as "Stand with Bush; Stick with Sununu" and "Privatize Social Security" by voting for Sununu. Many have been placed next to Sununu's own signs.

Hell, that'd get him my vote. Is that supposed to be a negative?

[roo_ster]

We use paper and check ID.  

[Lennyjoe]

Touch screens here that prints out a paper copy of your choices for hard copy records. You get to view through a window after you cast your votes for consistancy. No issues here since I voted last week.

[K Frame]

What the... I thought there was a law making it illegal to promote candidates within 1000 ft of a polling place.

Maybe its only in my state?

It's only your state.

There's VERY little Federal input on how voting is conducted for National Elections. It's up to the individual states to determine how the elections are held and the particulars surrounding them.

[Nick1911]

I heard a radio advertisement reminding us to vote in "the most important election of our lifetimes".

It seemed very naive and short sighted, if not outright alarmist.

Paid for by Obama for America.

[Manedwolf]

I heard a radio advertisement reminding us to vote in "the most important election of our lifetimes".

It seemed very naive and short sighted, if not outright alarmist.

Paid for by Obama for America.

Well, it is.

Continue "America", or destroy it.

[K Frame]

The most important election in my lifetime was 1980, and I wasn't old enough to vote.

[Perd Hapley]

I heard a radio advertisement reminding us to vote in "the most important election of our lifetimes".

It seemed very naive and short sighted, if not outright alarmist.

Paid for by Obama for America.

I heard a Black lady call a radio show the other day.  She didn't like Obama that much, but - BUT A MINORITY CANDIDATE WILL PROBABLY NEVER MAKE IT ONTO THE BALLOT EVER AGAIN!   :rolleyes:   

[Manedwolf]

I heard a Black lady call a radio show the other day.  She didn't like Obama that much, but - BUT A MINORITY CANDIDATE WILL PROBABLY NEVER MAKE IT ONTO THE BALLOT EVER AGAIN!   :rolleyes:   

If he screws up as much as he's likely to if elected? That's likely true, sadly.

A qualified minority candidate would have been a good thing. People would have gone "Oh, well, yeah...huh. There really is no difference in skin color." As it should be. Because there is not.

In this case? If elected, he'll screw up stuff so badly that, among more racist voters, it will be seen as evidence that a black man can't do the job. Which is NOT AT ALL TRUE....but it's an uncomfortable truth that that will be the widespread perception.

Putting Obama, an empty suit socialist forward as the first black man who could become president...is likely to be the greatest setback to civil rights and equality of the 21st century.

What a lousy, lousy, horrible choice for that historic first. What a waste.

It's like finally getting your team to the Major Leagues...and sending up, as your first batter, a nearsighted and weak-armed sort with a wiffle bat and a .000 average. 

[280plus]

Having a supporter of the Dem Representative I hate with a passion (Joe Courtney) hold up his sign and wave at me like I was his pal or something as I drove into the parking lot. I looked the other way and his hand quickly dropped. I too thought it was illegal to have campaigners right outside the voting stations but, I guess it ain't. It should be as far as I'm concerned. I felt like going and asking the guy how he could support such a POS but I just did my thing and left. 

Too bad Courtney himself wasn't there, I definitely would have had a few words with him.   

[charby]

This is after I voted an needed to walk across campus.

Just because I have long hair and haven't shaved in three months doesn't make me an Obama supporter. Please don't pout when I say "No", when you ask me if I support Obama.

[Viking]

I'm glad we still have paper ballots here in AZ.  I fear and loathe electronic ballots, being a codegeek much like BrokenPaw.

Aside from that, it hurt to see people walk away from the line to vote after standing for an hour.  Don't give up, folks!  See it through to the end!

Just hope & pray they were Obamatons. Considering this topic we can always hope that standing in line to vote is way too much work for these poor folks.

[Uncle Bubba]

Here in GA, you show your ID, then you are given a yellow electronic "smart" card to process your ballot. Stick it into a voting machine, make your choices by touchscreen, review your choices, record your vote on the yellow card, then ...

... the annoying part: hand the yellow electronic "smart" card (my ballot) to someone who is presumably an election official, who smiles at you, and is holding a stack of votes in her hand. Done, I walk out - wondering what will happen to my ballot, in her hand with many others unsecured, no secure card reader or ballot box in sight, just inches from her pockets.

Ballots should be placed by the voter into a secured container which one can trust will be opened only in a secured and monitored location. Handing it to a stranger in hopes that it is properly counted does not comfort me.

Your votes aren't recorded on the cards. All the card does is activate the machine, then the machine records your votes. If you'd watched before or after voting you'd have seen the person you handed your card over to after voting then handing a stack of them back to the people who were verifying status and handing them out.

[Jim147]

The only thing that bugged me was after voting.

I couldn't walk across the town square and pick up a nice
bottle of whiskey to sit and enjoy while I watch the results.

Got to close them evil stores down today or people might
get too drunk to vote.

[Uncle Bubba]

I too thought it was illegal to have campaigners right outside the voting stations but, I guess it ain't. It should be as far as I'm concerned.

Dunno where you are, 280, but here in Georgia campaigning is not allowed within 150 feet of a polling place. At the elementary school where I vote the entire school is considered the polling place, though the actual voting is usually done in the library. (Due to expected high turnout, today it was in the cafeteria.) Sign-wavers are kept at or past the farthest corner of the parking lot. Anywhere else and they're too close to the building or way the hell away where they can't be seen.

[280plus]

I'm in the lovely state of CT. They were at the entrance to the parking lot of the school. Well within 150 ft that's for sure. I found it to be very annoying. Like they're going to sway my choice as I'm walking in. Yea, hokay... 

One thing though, the TV is saying Fla is too close to call. Not quite the "landslide" the Dems and the media would have you believe it was going to be.

[eyebrows]

I got there at 5:40am, polls opened at 6. It was pretty smooth except one thing.
As you walked up to the gym you came across a line, and most people assumed it was the only line when in fact there was another 50 yds or so down the way. Heres the trick, if you lived west of Tibbs st. you were supposed to be in the first line, East of Tibbs and you got in the second. There were no signs up stating that and people were waiting in the first line for 40+ minutes just to be told they were in the wrong line and had to go to the other one. They would not let them proceed. Lots of angry people this morning at IPS#90.

[just Warren]

These last couple of infections I had to walk upstairs AND this time I had to wait 2 minutes to vote. The horror.

[Gewehr98]

What little thing happened while voting bugs you?

I tooted.

Loudly.

Mrs. G98 was next door in the other booth. 

Everybody there at the polling place now knows my first and middle name.

[freedom lover]

There were no signs up stating that and people were waiting in the first line for 40+ minutes just to be told they were in the wrong line and had to go to the other one.

I guess my dad and brother were lucky. They only had to wait 5 minutes.  There were 2 tables to sign in at, one for each half of the alphabet. The problem was, they were not labeled.

There have never been big crowds when I have gone to the polling places in the past. I'm not surprised there were few today.

[charby]

I tooted.

Loudly.

Mrs. G98 was next door in the other booth. 

Everybody there at the polling place now knows my first and middle name.

So your name is God Dammit also?

[Regolith]

I didn't have to wait.  I voted absentee; sent in my ballot last Tuesday.   

[BridgeRunner]

Paper ballots, big envelopes to cover them.

The ballots were extra large this time (lots of highly contested local judicial races) and didn't fit.  Everyone who voted a straight party ticket advertised that fact and their party of choice to everyone else waiting in line to hand it in. 

Otherwise though, I am happy to say that my sleepy little neighborhood is, thus far, remaining sleepy and little.

[41magsnub]

I liked the way MT does it.  We have the scanner sheets which we then feed into the scanner ourselves.  The only problem I had were the 3 people at once hassling me outside to get me to sign various petitions I did not care about since I was trying to get home to make dinner.  I blew off the exit poll chick as well even though she was kinda hot.

[Paragon]

I think they Republicans do that as well.  They were giving out sample ballots, but I wasn't offered one.  Something about a wool wearing fixed gear cyclist probably doesn't scream Republican.

Chris

I wasn't offered one by the Repubs either, and I had an XD-45 on my hip.  They just looked at me said hi.  The kid who didn't even look 18 offered me one for the Dems, though.