When I arrived at the local voting location at 6:30 AM, there was already a line of about 50. It was easily triple that by 7AM when the doors opened. Once inside things went quickly, and without problem. The touch screen voting machine was perhaps a tad over-sensitive to touch, but that's about all.

yes I did. I got there at 10 to 7 , there were about 7 people in front of me. we use the old side edge punch card machine. I hac no problems.

Going after work. I drove past two different polling places this morning and they were packed with cars in the lot.

I checked yes for the poll, but haven't voted yet. I plan to at 12:30 as soon as I'm off work.

1100 hours Long Island time. Seeing the ladies every four years makes me feel young

I just got back from voting. I was voter 1105 at noon at our polling place. That is about three times what is normal. There were no lines, and the optical scanners worked perfectly.

Voted at noon. Had no issues, it followed a simple fill in the oval with felt tip pen format. Turned over the sheet to a volunteer who placed it in a scantron type machine that immediately swallowed the rather large ballot, and was handed a nifty little sticker that announced to all that I voted today...WooHoo!

We don't have polling places in Oregon so it's hard to tell the turnout. However we had already hit half the total of the last presidential election years ballots by last Saturday. That is a lot more than we had at the same time in 2000.

If nothing else, maybe this election will get more people to realize that voteing is important.

Took me about 15 minutes from the time I left my house until the time I got back. No lines, no Republican or Democrat vote monitors, nothing. Not even the usual bunch of goofs standing outside the door holding up signs for their candidates of choice.

2 blocks away from my home to vote. 20 Minutes in line and voting and back home around 10:00 am.
Gayle

Huge turnout. Long lines. Stood in line 2 hours to vote. Everyone seemed cheerful and I got some free candy. :)

Was the candy a liberal bribe? :)

yep, no problems.

Hey, no option for those of us who use absentee voting? (voted 2 weeks ago)

I'm for Bush, Wife is for Kerry. So we cancelled each other out. I tried to convince her that we should both stay home but that didn't work.

old reb

Did Proposition 71 on Stem Cell Research Pass? I haven't heard yet.
Gayle

I would have voted...had I been old enough.

I did go down to the polling place, a little elementry school a couple blocks from my home.

Our very Republican and Conservative county went decisively Kerry. I wish the rest of the state had done the same.

Originally posted by gayle
Did Proposition 71 on Stem Cell Research Pass? I haven't heard yet.
Gayle

Is that Arnold's Stem Cell Research Proposistion....if it is, yeah, I think it passed.

Oh God, yeah I voted! I take voting with an almost deadly seriousness.

No trouble voting. Went in and out.

I'm not too thrilled with the "get out the vote" drives ran by both democrats and republicans. I'm sorry, but if you really don't care about the issues, then you shouldn't vote. People voting because they are told to do so, or to get a free donut our whatever it is that people use to bribe people who don't give a damn to go vote just screws up the voting process. I have to wonder how the election would've gone had these not get out the vote drives been in place.

I have to wonder how the election would've gone had these not get out the vote drives been in place.
Bush would have beaten Kerry by an ASTOUNDING margin.