We got to the polling station early this morning and there were lots of people already lined up ahead of us but we got out in 27 minutes. Granted when they opened the doors they said the machines were down and we would have to use a paper ballot instead. Luckily the guy with the swipe card went running by and we were able to vote by machine, which has its problems.
There are usually four machines open at our polling station but only three were up today.
Twitter is on fire with more people in the Commonwealth of Virginia having problems at the polling stations. I hope at the end of the day all of the votes are counted and none are thrown out or rejected. Funny how swing states can have such problems when they didn't before.
When we left the polls the line had formed around the building so I'm sure those people have a long wait in store for them. I hope this doesn't come down to the popular vote vs. electoral vote again. I think today is definitely going to be entertaining, that's for sure.
I almost forgot, we got a sideshow to boot this morning. A woman in her "savedarfur.org" shirt briefly stepped out of line and sort of laid on her back in fetal position, we're not sure if she was just bored and doing yoga or if she was so stressed she had to rock back and forth to self soothe before she cast her vote.
I waited until 7:45 to vote. I am glad I did. I was in and out in under 10 minutes. I did not get my "I voted" sticker, I was ripped off. To add to my loss, I could not go and get my free cup of Starbucks coffee since I had to wait all day to vote. There was a lot of voters out there! I did not see anyone doing yoga, just some tired and grumpy eldery volunteers.
Posted by: Toni | November 04, 2008 at 08:30 PM