Third time's the charm

[kitanzi]

I was gonna be so clever, I was gonna be so smart. I was gonna go do early voting Monday in the middle of the day when we got back from OVFF - surely it would be the quickest, easiest way. The line was insaaaaane. We went home.

Friday I thought surely it would be slow in the evening. It's Friday, it's Halloween fer crying out loud. No one will be there. I went, saw the line, and asked a woman coming out of the school how long she'd waited. She said four hours, and when I asked how long the line had been she pointed to a spot a good fifty feet UP from where it ended in front of me. I went home.

Today I figured hell with it - the lines will be long, but if I'm in line when they close they have to let me vote. I went after work.

Friends, there was no line. At all. A half hour after I left work I pulled in to our parking lot, having proudly and carefully placed my vote.

The moral of this story, if there is one, is simple. Clever counts for not half so much as timing. :P

But dammit, I am DONE!

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[braider.livejournal.com]

I walked in, walked up to the registration desk, was led to a voting machine, and was home within an hour of when I left work. That includes the 5 minute walk from the parking lot, the 20 minute drive, the pit stop on the way out the door at work, and driving home from voting.

Point! I had a point.

I think so many people were afraid of long lines that they rushed the polls early ... leaving almost no one left to vote today. Even those who voted today, most opted for the morning to leave their evenings free.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad it went smoothly for you. *hugs*

I went into the polling place, waited about 5 minutes, gave them my name, filled in the ovals, and was out in about 7 minutes. Then I got cookies at the bake sale, told them to keep the change from my $5, and went home.

Chatted with Mom on my way home, which was lovely. Also got to verify that my Grandma got out to vote. She's not been feeling well, and has trouble standing for long periods of time, but she went. I don't think hell coming at her could have stood in her way. :)

Also, the mayor of my home town will be at the rally in Chicogo!

[hawklady.livejournal.com]

snicker. Congrats. It's over with. (mine was early voting last week)

Today's been incredibly productive at work because most of the people who can vote took today as a work-from-home day in order to be flexible for long lines (at least, that's their cover story) ... and the bulk of the ones left are the imported-from-India contractors and visa folks who can't vote and who won't talk politics because they don't dare make waves or risk giving offense (but when asked and they are comfortable with you, they gush about how "everyone at home wants Obama to win").

Now, the party, right?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Hm. So much for "location, location, location" ;-)

I'm glad to hear that you didn't have to cope with lines out the door, and wonder if that means that your district hadn't largely voted early, or early today (I just read that the LA Times reported that 43% of LA County's voters had voted by 1 PM -- if that was similar there, it would, combined with early voting, explain your experience).

We had about a 20-minute wait, which is HUGE here, this morning.

Wham! Bam! Thank you, ma'am!

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Good for you and your determination. When we voted in 2006 (governorship at stake), it took somewhat longer than this time. I went around 3:00 this afternoon, hoping I'd beat the vote-after-work crowd. And it seemed that I did. Walked in, checked in at my precinct table and got my ballot, boldly blacked out my ovals (where no ink has gone before), went to the check-out table (three or four ahead of me - finally, a line!), then slid my ballot into the suck-machine. Piece of pie. Easy as cake. And I'm not aware of my town having early voting, though I could be wrong.

Let us hope things go as smoothly for the rest of the country.

Ann O.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

The moral of this story, if there is one, is simple. Clever counts for not half so much as timing. :P

Crazy how that works.