Did you vote? How busy was the polling place?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I was #9 at about 7:07.....it wasn't busy but it never is at that hour.  The line would  have been out the door in 30-45 minutes......

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Which number voter were you?  (if you know it)  What time did you vote?

I voted around 8:45.  Most of the voting booths (about 10 of them) were full and I was number 174 75 minutes after the polls opened.  There are roughly 3300 residents in my precinct.  In 2008, just under 1700 people voted.

Walked into the building at 8:41.  Walked out at 8:54.  I didn't pay attention to the numbers.

It was coldish.  26F when Louis and I hopped on our bicycles.  I bundled him up and we made the three-block ride to Southdale Elementary, as we do every morning.  I got him there, locked his bicycle to the rack (and kissed him and reminded him not to throw stones and be sure to eat all his lunch and say excuse me if he burps and listen to the teacher and say thank you and please) just before the 8:40 warning bell, and then rode two more blocks to the Jesus H. Christ Megachurch and Cultural Center where I vote.  (Okay, that's not really the name of the place.  I can't remember the name of the place, but it's a huge monstrosity of a church about two blocks from my son's school.)  I left the bicycle in the front and walked in and looked around at the people.  funny thing, here on this forum, at 43 I'm one of the really old guys.  In my voting place, I'm quite sure I was, by far, the youngest.  All the other voters are looking at me with that "Oh, it's so good to see young people voting" kind of gleam.  I had to wait behind three women and two men ahead of me, but the line moved fast.  Eventually I got to the blue-haired, pencil-thin, bespectacled octogenarian woman working the "sign here to confirm your address" station.  Then, I took another step to the next very old woman who had the "I promise I have not voted in any other precinct" documents to sign.  Then I waited to step forward to the next station where two much younger (mid-sixties?) women were asking questions and typing things in on Lenovo thinkpads.  (Computer literacy is limited to the young, I suppose.)  Finally, I got to the last station where a rather rotund elderly man (with no hair except a few white whiskers on his chin) gave me a ballot. 

The voting part was actually pretty quick.  I'd studied beforehand about all the major office.  I probably left about five of them blank, wishing I'd educated myself a bit about things like County Board of Supervisors and District Appellate Judges.  I did notice that Iowa Party and Socialist Workers Party were choices this year for the straight-ticket option, along with the standard Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian.  Not that I'd ever vote straight party ticket, but it's nice to see some other options. 

There were also three questions.  I voted NO on all of them then put my ballot into the little electronic device that sucks it in and, presumably, reads it.  Voila!

By then I needed to pee.  Luckily there was a men's room just down the corridor.  All told, I was in and out in under 15 minutes.  Pretty efficient.

BushOK it's not nice to imitate angus. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

     I voted at 8:30 AM. I was the 12th voter. So yeah, it was pretty empty.

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