Blogcritics: Comments on Voting Observations

Comment by Distorted Angel

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:41:22 EST

It looks as though only six states allow election-day registrations at present.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:34:30 EST

that's a good question. i don't know. i heard it mentioned on the radio in the past few days...something in the teens maybe. anybody know the real number?

Comment by andy marsh

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:29:04 EST

Mark - just out of curiousity, because you can't here in VA, do you know how many states allow same day registration?

Comment by Mark Saleski

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:19:53 EST

i voted here in new hampshire right around 8:30. walked right in. there was an enormous line at the same day registration table though. my town still uses paper ballots (the kind that are sucked into the counting machines). my only complaint was that the guy next to be kept bumping into the booth, making it shake back & forth. it kinda make me sea sick.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:19:44 EST

DA, it is a beautifu thing, and thanks Craig, excellent post!

Comment by Distorted Angel

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:03:22 EST

For the first time in the nearly 30 years I've been voting in my little town, I waited in line for close to 50 minutes. It was a good cross-section of my community -- there were people in business dress, older folks, a minister and his wife, young moms with little kids in tow, and one young man who looked like he was casting his first-ever ballot. It was a beautiful thing.

Comment by Bryan

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:00:40 EST

Yep, voted myself in Indiana. Funny, I noticed those damn ropes to :) Ours had a climbing wall also. I didn't get a damn sticker. Those bastards! Go Bush!