Did you vote today?

Posted by DarthDilbert at 11/04/2008 04:18:00 PM

I was in line at 6:15AM, waiting for the polls to open at 6:30AM. I counted fifty people in front of me in line. At 6:58AM the electronic machines were not working, with paper ballots being the only option. At 7:15AM, electronic machines were still not available - only paper ballots. At 7:35AM, just over one hour after the polls opened, they discovered that a ground fault had been tripped and electronic machines were finally available. I received my card to vote on the touch screen electronic machine at 8:05AM. When I went to use it there was an error message on screen that the card was not valid and the vote was canceled. I went back to the table where the voting officials were (only three of them for my precinct), and explained the situation. I didn't know quite how to react when she acknowledged that they knew that the card I was given had already been giving other voters the same error message, but that they had continued to use it with the hopes it might begin working somehow. I just shook my head in disgust as they setup another card for me and I went to try and vote again. This time it worked ok, and I was able to complete my ballot after only two or three minutes at 8:10AM.

A source at the Ohio GOP just told me [4:15PM] that the Republican turnout is running much higher than the democRAT turnout.

Update: 4 November 2008/4:41PM
Just told by them that GOP turnout is currently running higher than the total from 2004.