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Bob - 2008-11-04 19:28:15
I had to wait for a minute while someone in my part of the alphabet signed in ahead of me, which was most unfortunate, since there were only two voters besides myself in there. But when I told one of the poll workers (who vastly outnumbered us) that it didn't exactly look like 85% turnout, another said that actually, the sign-in rolls were pretty full. My favorite sign sighting, though - on a lonely stretch of road on Friday - was a mint condition Kerry/Edwards sign. But regarding bumper sticker sightings, it seems like the more important people think an election is, the less important they think bumper stickers are... which is reassuring.
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Paula - 2008-11-04 19:36:54
What time did you go? I imagine my experience was relatively breezy cuz I went on the late side.
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MacGregor - 2008-11-04 19:54:54
I went at half six and experienced lines much longer than I've ever seen and I've been at the same place since 1992 and have voted in every single election. I also discovered once I got there that my district had been gerrymandered since the last election... fortunately I was only a machine over... and not a borough over. That still sucks because I had to cast a vote for a couple local positions that were no utterly unfamiliar. Thanks Uncle Sam.
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Paula - 2008-11-04 20:03:45
Argh--I stupidly didn't know anything about Proposition 1, and voted on it anyway. Some old SAT rule came into my head "Answer the question even if you have to guess."
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Bob - 2008-11-04 20:25:52
Shortly after noon, in a very Republican county... don't know what it means.
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MacGregor - 2008-11-04 21:47:54
I saw nothing about Prop 1 in the lead-up to the election so I left it alone. I'm getting antsy about all this, by the way.
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MacGregor - 2008-11-04 22:00:14
I've left levers up, by the way, in pretty much every election I've ever voted in. If I don't know the candidate, or cases like the '92 and '96 presidential elections where I loathed all the candidates, I left them up and pulled switches for those I liked in the locals.
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SF Eli - 2008-11-05 08:38:10
I was going to take a picture of my ballot with the black arrow pointing to Barack's name but got all squinchy and worried about invalidating my vote somehow by breaking photographic rules...Sirens, helicopters, honking horns, firecrackers, cheering crowds, thumping disco beats, rainbow and the stars and stripes flags floating through the crowds, drinks in a bar with a retired black stockbroker and a well meaning foot in her mouth white hippie girl treating the smart 30 year veteran Mexican bartender at a Union Square bar like he was invisible and deaf to shockingly racist (or at least ignorant) remarks while we elect our first black president. Ah America. Gotta love it. You can't keep the queers down, by the way. I'm headed off to sleep and it looks like Prop 8 might pass. I halfway hope they burn the city down if it passes. Though I guess it would be more fair to burn a gay hating city down instead.
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