Election Day

[stoutfellow]

Well, I fulfilled half of the old adage, at least: I was the sixth person to vote at my polling place. Back home by about 6:20 AM.

I have a class at 7:30 PM. There should be a few early results before then, but otherwise I won't get any information until I get home, shortly after 9:00.

It's going to be a long day.

Comments

[sunlizzard.livejournal.com]

I'm such a political junkie that I'm sure I'll watch the coverage all evening, even if nothing from my state will show up for a good while. Hmmmm... perhaps this needs to be our once-a-month Yay!Junkfood!Yum! night. Heh. Though I suppose I could just cook earlier; New Mexico polls are open until 7, after all. ...Nah..... *grins*

I was voter #22 in my precinct this morning. Anticipating a line, I brought my newspaper with me--then got in and out in less than 10 minutes, no line at all! Too late to go back home (and what for?) so I just went in to work early. *pats self on back for, um, unintentional(?) virtuousness*

Guido voted early, last Saturday at the Mall. She was #971 at that location and it was the last day for early in-person voting, so that's a pretty fair showing of voters, I guess. There were other early locations, but that was closest to us.

I decided to wait and go to the polls today. I just actually really enjoy the process of casting my vote, and for some reason, that seems... what.... more genuine somehow, if it's done on Election Day? Guidz didn't have much choice--she didn't request an absentee ballot and would have had to come down Monday night, be in line right at 7am and then drive like a bat back to Portales and still be an hour late for work. This way, she came down Friday after work and we had time for a high school football game, watching a tape of a "Grey's Anatomy" episode we'd both missed, and hanging out and shopping time together before she went back Saturday evening. The better deal, all around.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Back in the pre-Net days, I used to make up tables for the senatorial, gubernatorial, and (when applicable) electoral races, and tick them off as they were called. I haven't done that in a long time, but yes, I'm in the same general class of junkie as you are.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

"I just actually really enjoy the process of casting my vote, and for some reason, that seems... what.... more genuine somehow, if it's done on Election Day?"

Yes, there's something about being physically part of the voting excitement you just can't get from a mail-in ballot. AND you get a sticker!

My parents were both precinct committeemen (persons?) when I was *very* young and so were very much involved in the election process and results. I have great memories of election nights. We would stay up on my parents bed (room with the only TV), watching all the returns and eating beernuts. It was the only time we bought them. Now, I find when election watching that I have a craving for beernuts. It just completes the picture...

I hope we do have a good idea of the results today; yesterday, a newscaster said that with all the early ballots being brought to the polls, it might not be for a couple of days.

[sunlizzard.livejournal.com]

> yesterday, a newscaster said that with all the early ballots being brought to the polls, it might not be for a couple of days.

In Chaves County returns are going to be slowed down by a write-in candidate who has run a highly visible campaign; I am anticipating that there will be a large number of ballots which will have to be inspected-by-actual-human-eyeballs because of the write-in votes. One of 'em is mine. (I think you both read coalboy? I explained this in a reply on her journal and so won't go into it again here.)

But.... *sniffle, sniffle*, no sticker for me. Dunno why not. Maybe the sticker-person was taking a break....

[filkferengi]

fairestcat posted one on her lj; maybe it's something you could copy. After all, you earned it!