Mid-day voting

[resqgeek]

One advantage of living close to where I work is that, when necessary, I can pop home during the day to take care of things that need to be done. Given the projections for long lines at the polls this morning and again in the evening, I suggested that my wife pick me up during the middle of the day. We'd vote, and then grab a bite of lunch before she deposited me back at my office. It worked like a charm.

When we pulled up at our polling place, there were a few cars around, but no sign of a crowd. The check-in table had a line of about a half-dozen people with names starting with A-G, but the H-O line where my name falls was vacant, so it was a breeze to check in. I was then directed to the end of the line of a dozen or so waiting to use the electronic, touch-screen voting machines. Here I was given a choice of waiting in line for a machine, or taking an optical scan sheet ballot and using any of about a dozen empty booths to fill it out. That was a no-brainer. I took the ballot and the pen they offered, found a booth and filled in the appropriate bubbles. I fed the ballot into the scanning machine, and I was finished.

Even with lunch, I was only gone from the office for a total of one hour. If I had waited until this evening, I bet the wait to check in would have been longer than that...

Comments

[florafloraflora.livejournal.com]

The check-in table had a line of about a half-dozen people with names starting with A-G, but the H-O line where my name falls was vacant, so it was a breeze to check in.

Isn't that hilarious? When I voted today there were no lines at all except for the P-S line, which was huge.

[canberracabbie.livejournal.com]

It's all those people with names like Quorn, Quirm etc...

[canberracabbie.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Your state's a battleground, apparently. Much in the way of bodies on the ground, sandbagging, flagwavering etc?

[florafloraflora.livejournal.com]

Much in the way of bodies on the ground, sandbagging, flagwavering etc?

Oddly enough, none at all. Because DC can be a vicious partisan battleground, you know.