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Post by majorminor on Nov 8, 2022 16:27:04 GMT -5
We vote in the high school gymnasium. The same little old ladies year after year. You walk in show ID, sign a ledger while they witness your signature, you get a ballot and instructions about there being two sides to the ballot and be sure to blacken the oval in completely, and off you go to your little curtained off compartment. It's quaint, but I have to say I like it this way.
There was a long line, and the little old ladies were saying super busy and exceptional turn out. No big surprise, but based on my little slice of the voting process the Republicans are showing up.
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Post by howard lee on Nov 8, 2022 16:38:48 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Nov 8, 2022 16:38:54 GMT -5
The Vietnamese were out in force today. Made things slow because there is page after page Nguyen, Pham and Dang in our precinct. The poll worker seemed to have a tenuous grasp of alphabetical order.
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Post by epaul on Nov 8, 2022 17:02:22 GMT -5
The little old ladies passing out the ballots in Grand Forks were pretty saucy today. I was wearing my trombone sweatshirt (has an image of three trombones across the front, very fetching). The lady that was to pass me my ballot said, "Oh, do you play trombone?"
"Yes, I do" I said proudly.
"No problem, I will read the instructions twice."
Whereupon the lady working next to her said, "Don't forget slow".
What a pair of comedians 😠
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Post by howard lee on Nov 8, 2022 17:14:20 GMT -5
I voted early, on the 29th, at the Brooklyn Museum. I thanked the poll workers for being there and working the polls. There were no armed goons "protecting" the drop boxes or voting sites in Brooklyn. I was in and out in 15 minutes (it takes three minutes just to walk across the lobby).
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Nov 8, 2022 17:48:40 GMT -5
This is where I placed our ballots last week. Yamhill county drop box, in Jaquith Park. I didn’t even have to get out of the truck.  Mike |
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Post by millring on Nov 8, 2022 17:53:21 GMT -5
I had to make an extra 20 mile trip to Claypool today because some political advertisements came in late and had to be delivered today. We have to separate ballots so they don't get lost in the rest of the outgoing mail.
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Post by TKennedy on Nov 8, 2022 18:17:03 GMT -5
I was at the LaGrand township town hall promptly at nine AM. It was hoppin. The mature women in charge had things firmly in control and everyone was behaving impeccably.
Quite a bit of chatting going on as locals caught up on what was happening. Mostly “did you get your deer” talk I think.
One guy drove up on a four wheeler as I left.
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 8, 2022 18:17:12 GMT -5
As usual, we waited until just after lunchtime to avoid the (possible) morning and lunch-hour lines--though our precinct is dominated by university students who either vote early/absentee, at home, or (more likely) not at all. (Last times we saw a strong student showing were in Obama's two runs. And the year Jesse Ventura won the governor's race.) So we were in and out in something under ten minutes, including a few seconds taken to thank the judges and poll workers.
Minnesota's registration/election system is low-key, stable, and (as far as I can tell) secure. Everybody's machinery should be this boringly competent.
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Post by billhammond on Nov 8, 2022 18:29:36 GMT -5
We vote in the high school gymnasium. The same little old ladies year after year. You walk in show ID, sign a ledger while they witness your signature, you get a ballot and instructions about there being two sides to the ballot and be sure to blacken the oval in completely, and off you go to your little curtained off compartment. It's quaint, but I have to say I like it this way. There was a long line, and the little old ladies were saying super busy and exceptional turn out. No big surprise, but based on my little slice of the voting process the Republicans are showing up. After being thwarted by long lines yesterday in my two attempts at early voting at the only Roseville location where one could do so, I went to my regular polling place at a Lutheran church today, got right in, no line. No ID needed, tell them your name and address, they call you up on an e-tablet, flip it around so you can verify that your data is correct, they give you a paper ballot, you go off to your TV tray with sides, fill out both sides of the ballot, walk over to the scanner, feed it in, wait for the Stars and Stripes to appear on the screen, and say yay or nay to an "I Voted" sticker from the nice lady who thanks you for voting. Then I motored over to a pub I had miraculously never visited before, for an early dinner of roast chicken, mashed taters and teriyaki green beans, sloshed down with happy-hour house chardonnay. Plus! Ten percent off the tab w/ military ID. Tasty, pretty healthy and affordable, and I brought home as much as I ate, so a second meal tomoro. BTW, I've been researching all the food freebies for this Friday, which is Veterans Day, and I keep landing on a nearby place called Crooked Pint (Marty & Bride are fans), where vets can select any entree on the menu and eat for free. Walleye dinner, here I come! |
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Post by billhammond on Nov 8, 2022 18:35:58 GMT -5
No curtains in our polling places -- just these contraptions.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 18:42:16 GMT -5
No curtains in our polling places -- just these contraptions. Same. No lines today either. Smoove... |
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 8, 2022 18:56:19 GMT -5
I have all of you guys beat so far. Walked in, walked out, AND got a chocolate chip cookie.
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Post by coachdoc on Nov 8, 2022 19:00:47 GMT -5
I have all of you guys beat so far. Walked in, walked out, AND got a chocolate chip cookie. Small bag of M&Ms. I’ll take it. |
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Post by Marty on Nov 8, 2022 19:27:18 GMT -5
Walked in to the church down the road, met our next door neighbors as they were coming out. Got handed a ballot and filled it out. It got scanned and we left. Maybe 15 minutes total. I didn't get a cookie.  I bet LJ got a cookie.  |
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Post by billhammond on Nov 8, 2022 19:28:22 GMT -5
I have all of you guys beat so far. Walked in, walked out, AND got a chocolate chip cookie. Yeah, but we VOTED! |
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Post by Cornflake on Nov 8, 2022 19:47:11 GMT -5
My experiences on social media today made me think that much of the country could benefit from anger management counseling.
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Post by drlj on Nov 8, 2022 20:01:03 GMT -5
We went to the clubhouse, voted in the auxiliary dining room, had coffee and a bagel in the main dining room, went back and voted again, then had a glass of orange juice before voting a third time. Came home, took a nap, thought about voting a fourth time but decided it would be overkill. I did have another bagel, though.
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Post by dradtke on Nov 9, 2022 0:55:55 GMT -5
I spent the longest time getting in and out of the polling place today that I ever have in my life! I went in at 6:00 this morning, an hour before they opened, and didn't get out until 9:30 tonight. But I did get lunch and supper, and a cookie. (But no beer...)
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 9, 2022 4:25:55 GMT -5
from the inter webs:
Voting is like a group project back in school. I did my part but the other people are going to mess it up.
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