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I just drove through campus on the way to work. There were about 100 students in line outside the Jesse Owens building waiting to get inside to wait in line some more. It was 7:25 in the morning.
I was NEVER up before 10 when I was in college. Wow.
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Election Day open thread – Did you vote today?
By: Brent
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Anyway, I’ll be on the laptop on CU the whole time and will do my best to relay some info from what’s being said here. So keep sharing your thoughts! :D
Dragonfly is having 1/2 price wine and some other specials tonight. their setting up space in the gallery to view results.
I have my growler of Joe the Plum beer we picked up on our trip to Athens with Slow Food and I plan on having as much of it as I can manage.
Anyway, I’ll be on the laptop on CU the whole time and will do my best to relay some info from what’s being said here. So keep sharing your thoughts! :D
I’ll be live-blogging the event at Eddie George’s from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Alive is hosting a returns party with free appetizers, drink specials and giveaways.
I had no idea FOX News would be there. That’s really weird.
Took about 45 mins to walk to Thompson Rec, vote, and walk back though I did review my ballot about a gagillion times and kept staring at the little paper print out as it went. I’m such a dork.
Hope Bollinger Tower has calmed down some so boyfriend doesn’t have to wait too long.
I feel bad for those having to wait in long lines when my polling location was a ghost town. I also hope that doesn’t mean that people in the precints that report to my area just aren’t voting, I’ve seen a lot of Obama signs in windows in the ‘hood.
Eddie George’s sounds fun and I like those spicy shrimp things!! Might have to walk down and say hi to you boys!!
Hope Bollinger Tower has calmed down some so boyfriend doesn’t have to wait too long.
I did not know I was your boyfriend.
I passed Thompson Rec on my way to work and it did look pretty empty. Are the voting booths in the pool? An Aquatic Electorate!
Only took me about 10 minutes to vote at 10am. It was nice, but also a little disconcerting, considering 2004, when I was in line for over 2 hours. They changed my polling place, so I don’t know if the new place had less precincts or if turnout was low or if early voting and more machines made all the difference.
Overheard an observer on a phone call saying poll workers were sending voters from different wards to the wrong place. :(
If ANYONE is told that they cannot vote because the voting “notification card” was returned as undeliverable (or for any reason, for that matter), they should contact the Secretary of State’s Office at 1-877-VOTE-VRI.
This should not be happening, and the SOS should be made aware.
This morning around 8:30 I walked right in and voted. I noticed that they had seven machines at the Mt Vernon Black Studies building where I went which is about 4 more than they had at the station I voted at during the last general election which took four hours.
I’ll never forget how neighborly and exciting that experience was, still, four hours is waay too long-and look what happened in ’04 anyway. (still smarting from that one, it makes me nervous to get excited about potential outcomes)
I passed by a couple other polling stations on my way downtown and they had modest traffic.
Waited about 50 minutes at the Greek Orthodox Church this morning. No big deal. Canvased for the O GOTV effort and was chased out of an area by two cops. :roll:
Waited about an hour and twenty minutes to vote this morning at Hubbard Elementary School. Showed up around 6:45a. The line on my way out was similar in length to when I arrived.
Watching McCain speak in CO right now on MSNBC.com. His speech is quivering at times. All his statements are random and increasingly silly and or vague.
He keeps bringing up Joe the Plumber and jumping from topic to topic.
They just did a Drill Baby Drill chant.
He just said he is not Mrs. Congeniality.
This speech is hellish and bad.
He said he knows how to deal with our friends!?
He saws he has been tested and passed the test.
Now he is talking about the surge and calling people brave just because they are in the armed forces.
Now he is giving straight talk.
He is now advocating American hegemony and imperialism (for the children)
Now he wants to fight and be courageous and fight for America. He has said fight several times now.
OMG this is terrible.
Had about a 5 minute wait (@~9:30am) out in the boonies in Marysville. Had to vote provisionally b/c of a recent address change, but it was fairly painless. Everybody was super nice, although it’s clear that some additional training would give the poll workers a little more confidence in handling miscellaneous issues.
They are used when a voter’s eligibility is in question. Normally, this occurs when a voter fails to provide proper ID or has requested an absentee ballot but votes in person. They are counted once the voter has proved his eligibility.
Only partly true. There are some circumstances where a voter must provide additional info to the BOE to get their provisional vote counted. But for most provisional votes, the BOE will attempt to confirm eligibility with no further action needed by the voter.
I’ll be live blogging this deal all day and all night.
http://elephantsonbicycles.com
and helping to live blog on
http://wosu.blogspot.com
and of course checking out what all of you beautiful people have to say out here on CU. Champaign is on ice at home – GObama! If you need a little Obama pick up for the afternoon take another look at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
In peace.
Free Press is reporting instances of vote flipping:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/25/2008/3267
Ohio Election Day Watch Report: Early afternoon election problems in Ohio
by Bob Fitrakis
November 4, 2008
Columbus, Ohio, 2p.m.: In Franklin County, there have been three reports of vote flipping by Free Press election protection volunteers – at Jones Middle School in Upper Arlington where a voter reported a vote flip from Obama to Nader – and two others not verified yet.
Election Integrity and Mitofsky-Edison exit pollsters were being harassed at Tabernacle Church on Woodward in Columbus. The Franklin County Board of Elections directed the presiding judge not to interfere with the pollsters. Exit polls are the gold standard for detecting election fraud.
A spot check of inner city precinct vote totals as of 11am or so, reveals that there is an extraordinarily high number of people being forced to vote provisional ballots. The three reasons for the provisionals, as explained by the pollworkers, are names not the pollbook, people who requested absentees but decided to vote in person, and ID problems where the addresses do not match. It is not clear if all the pollworkers know the policies regarding provisional ballots.
At precinct 55D, the pollworkers were just as surprised as the voters to learn that their polling site, that used to contain 55D and E, had been split in two. Precinct 55E was moved several blocks away and everyone found out when a sign was posted on the door of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church at 6:15am this morning. These type of last minute tactics caused voter confusion and chaos in the 2004 election. This year, a Free Press volunteer reported that one voter waited in 1 1/2 hours in line this morning only to find they had to leave and stand in another line at the changed polling site location.
On a lighter note, this writer, Bob Fitrakis, voted on a paper ballot around 7:30am today and a check of the voter list, as posted at his precinct after 11am, indicated that he had not yet voted. This is an example of pollworker error and should not affect his vote being counted (we hope).
Actually you should have been allowed to vote a normal ballot, the poll worker should have asked for your last 4 ssn and writen that in the poll book instead of making you vote provisionally. THIS IS WHY ALL OF THESE CRAZY ID LAWS ARE DISENFRANCHISING VOTERS. No body seems to know what the rules are. I won’t argue having ID rules or not but I’ll argue to my death that all of the extra steps in the process are not good for democracy. Make it simple already…
Interesting, but I think there’s quite a bit of bias in the above article. Voters are not “forced” to vote on provisional ballots. If they don’t follow directions on identification, they have the option of casting provisional ballots or coming back with the proper documents.
just got back from overbrook presbyterian church in cville, there were a fair amount of people at the machines, but no lines at all. walked right in, gave them a copy of last months cell phone bill, signed the book, got right over to a machine, voted, got my sticker, and was on my way! less than ten minutes overall.
Welcome to CU!
Free Press having a bias? Say it isn’t so! :wink: