Voting

Polls here opened at 6 AM. I left the house at about ten till. It's about a five minute walk from my house to the polling place, so the doors weren't open yet when I got there, but there were about thirty people already in line. There were a few small problems - ballot papers sticking together, a pollworker misnumbering stubs - but generally things went smoothly. I was the thirty-sixth person to vote in my precinct, and when I left the line was about twice as long as it had been when I arrived. Looks like we'll have a good turnout.

This county is pretty solidly Democratic, at least at the local level; the GOP didn't bother putting up candidates in a number of races, including the one for State Senate. (On the national level, the trend is somewhat more Republican; our congressman is GOP, for instance.) The most controversial race was for the state Supreme Court, with tort reform as a major issue. (Monday, when I got home, there were five messages on my answering machine. One was a hangup, but the other four were all urging me to vote one way or the other on the S.C. race. There were also three flyers on the subject in mail.)

Now we wait.