Voting Today in the USA

[airboy]

** This is a description of your experience, not intended for candidate plugs."

Very heavy turnout at my voting location, the biggest box in my county in Alabama.  We waited in a roughly quarter of a mile line for 25 minutes before voting.  Fortunately, it was a beautiful day.

Almost everyone wore a mask, but it was a much less than a "social distance" line.

In Alabama we have everything you need for a fast, secure vote.  We use paper ballots.  You bubble in the candidate or the yes/no on amendments like taking a a multiple choice test.  Ordinary pens work on the ballots.

They check your ID, hand you a ballot, you bubble in your choice, it gets read by a scanner with the paper ballots stored in a container.  Took me about 4 minutes total to vote - but I had read the 4 constitutional amendments before arriving.

The high point was getting to vote for "Twinkle" for Public Service Commission.  Unfortunately, Young Boozer served two terms as State Treasurer and retired from politics.  Voting for Boozer somehow reminded me of friends both here and elsewhere.

[Windigo]

  Voting for Boozer somehow reminded me of friends both here and elsewhere.

LOL... good one AB!

[Gusington]

I'm waiting later to vote. The Wife went @ 630 this morning and had to wait for an hour. She passed by our polling place (local church) @ about 1230 this afternoon and said it was empty then, but I have to work until tonight. Polls here close at 9pm...maybe I'll even go after dinner, which goes against all my instincts.

[Labbug]

The wife and I went to vote about 11:30 am.  People were wearing masks.  A fairly constant flow of people wanting to vote but no lines or waiting.  Outside a couple asked me to take their picture.  I think it was their first time voting in a U.S. election.

[solops]

My wife and I voted early, a week ago, wearing our masks. No lines. The light stream of people all had masks.

[al_infierno]

While we wait for the results, I thought this might interest the Groggies.  The first ever electoral map from 1880.  Apparently the Red Vs. Blue motif is a whole lot older than I thought, with red being dems and blue being republicans back then.

[Gusington]

I voted last night in under five minutes...walked in, done, walked out.

[Sir Slash]

Was that because you were wearing that hockey mask out in public again? Actually.... good idea.  ^-^

[Gusington]

Honestly I did think something was wrong at first.

[airboy]

What I've found out in Alabama was the turnout was extremely heavy when the polls opened, and the lines gradually got shorter as the day progressed.  Relatively few people came in the last couple of hours.  So Gus's experience is not unique.