Was it good for you? Was it bad for you? Were there long lines? Short lines? Frozen machines? Hapless poll clerks? Not enough ballots? Or was everything just fine?
Do tell. If you do have problems at the polls, the DNC has set up a voter protection hotline at 1-888-DEMVOTE. There are other hotlines at 1-866-OUR VOTE for questions on how to vote and to report problems (the National Campaign for Fair Elections), as well as one set up exclusively for voting machine problems: 1-888-SAV-VOTE. Don’t let anyone silence your voice today.
Oh, and if Jean Schmidt survives today, I hope she learns a lesson from this incident and becomes a champion of ballot integrity and secure elections. Sadly, I’m not getting my hopes up:
where the polls are usually deserted at 9:30 a.m., quite a buzz, people waiting to vote at Rochambeau Playground…hopefully turning out for Angelides. But if attendance is up here on a nonpresidential year without anything overly controversial on the ballot (no on 90!, yes on H), I bet it’s buzzing more in other places…
All paper ballots here in the Land of Enchantment.
I don’t live in Patricia Madrid’s district, but I got to vote for one of my favorite Reps, Tom Udall. For Senate, it was Jeff Bingaman, and for governor, it was Bill Richardson.
All three will win, and all three will probably win with 65% of the vote; Udall has a chance at 70%.
I voted almost a straight Dem ticket, only one down-ballot race, where I didn’t vote for the Dem.
The paper ballots took a little longer than touch screen, but, hey, if that’s the price for a traceable ballot, that is fine by me. My precinct wasn’t all that crowded (three poll workers, two voters when I was there, 109 total voters today), but the rolls looked like a lot of early voters so far.
Good times.
I always vote around 8am, on my way to the subway. The polling place had about three people in line per district, and I had a bit of confusion about which line to get in ( I was Election Distric 18, but Congressional District 11, and there was 1 line for 18 and 1 line for 11) The lady ahead of me accidentally pulled her lever back she had cast her vote, so she was upset about that. I was in the book this election, so i didn’t have much trouble (once I was in the correct line) At the primary, because I was a new Democrat and had never voted in a primary before, I wasn;t listed in the book and had to fill out a provisional ballot.
The whole process look 15-20 minutes or so.
I was surprised at the lack of people handing out flyers or anything around the polls, but I guess Crown Heights is a solidly Democrat neighborhood. I voted for Democrats pretty much the whole way down, except for two Green candidates.
ballot would not scan…how purrfect!!!!!!!
Even machines don’t like her.
Sounds like Colorado -Denver area is a mess and polling hours may be extended due to a power failure effecting the computer based check-in procedure.
She makes me HOT… as in “Steamed” not “Steamy”. It made my day (so far)LOL. She was wearing Black…her funeral.
I actually voted last Saturday with early voting in Florida. No problems at all.