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  • I managed to find a pdf of a sample ballot for Travis County (TX) just last week. I was glad I did, because there was one issue that I hadn't heard about before, and would have had no idea how to vote if I didn't have time to look up the full text of the proposal. The little blurbs that are on the ballots themselves really give you no idea of what's involved - and, depending on how they're worded, can actually be misleading.
  • Sunny and 45 degrees this morning in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The wife and kids and I went over at 8:00 this morning. No line. I signed in, went into the booth, and was quickly followed into the booth by all four kids. I showed them how it worked:

    "This is the job (point), these are the two people who want the job (point, point), one from each party (point, point). You pick the one you like most, or, if you don't like either of them, you go over here (point) and write in the name of somebody else. The jo
  • I cast my ballot by mail 2 weeks ago, finally mailed it Friday (ballots only have to be postmarked by election day). Given the speed the Post Office handles election matterials it should be at the elections office today.

    Dispite voting absentee for the past 8 years or so I've always dropped my ballot off at the polling place in-person. Due to voting as soon as I got my ballot and having schedule conflicts election night I actually mailed mine in this year.

    Even before the recent changes many Washington Counti
  • This is the first time that I've ever had to drive to the polling place. It was an excessively nice elementary school, and we were to vote in Mr. Fischer's Phy Ed Room. It was far too small for the 10 voting booths, voter registration line, 4 voter sign-in lines, and ballot line. I got there at 7:05. I had planned to be there right at 7, but it wouldn't have mattered. There were probably 35 people waiting to sign in, 7 people registering to vote, and another 10 or 12 people waiting for their ballots.
    • P.S. I have a feeling that the libertarian in you might appreciate how I voted on a proposed constitutional ammendment. The ammendment was for allocating vehicle sales tax to mass transit and roads, whereas now about 60% of that money goes to the general fund. I am really in favor of the concept, but finally decided that the constituion was really not the place for it.
  • We have early voting here, so I voted two weeks ago. We have touch-screen machines with a printer off to the left. After you make your choices, you verify them on-screen. After that, it starts printing your vote. You verify that the printout is accurate and then cast your vote. When you do that, the printout scrolls out of view.

    Early voting is available for two weeks at the local malls, so it's about the only thing that'll get me into a mall. (They also set up other polling places for one or two day

  • 15 out of the 20 voting booths were down. So when I got to the polling place around 10:30 there was a line of 50 people out the door already. They finally got the rest of them working by the time I got to the front of the line. Total time to vote = 50 minutes.
  • Mail in ballots are the best. I was done in 10 min weeks ago. Plus no risks about electronic votes getting lost in unreliable voting machines. (This is a non partisan issue, MD Gov. Ehrlich (R) said he is casting an absentee ballot due to problems with touch screen machines.)

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