Voting Observations
Author: Craig Lyndall — Published: Nov 02, 2004 at 11:31 am 7 comments

I voted this morning and the line was really long. I was thinking about a few things while I was in there.

  • I wonder who Colin Powell is going to vote for today? After being ignored for much of the last 4 years, maybe the private sector is looking good.
  • This little girl behind me who is singing "Daddy is a goober" over and over, really needs to stop. 7:30 in the morning is too early for this.
  • If you spend more than 5 minutes on your ballot in the booth, you should have to take an incomplete.
  • Being in an elementary school gym, I notice they still have those climbing ropes that go to the ceiling. How on earth is that still legal? I want to write in a vote to have those removed. Is it too late to put that on the ballot?
  • If you are an old retired codger, you should be forced to vote in certain time blocks. Namely 9:30 am to 11:30 am when working age people are working and from 1:00 pm to 4:15 pm. That should keep you out of my way when I need to go to work.
  • Those stickers they give you at the end are cool, but mine didn't stick. They were probably made in China.
  • Hopefully all those television ads will stop and I can get my beer commercials and movie trailers back on TV.
  • I wonder how many hours of that dude scribbling on a whiteboard I will be able to to take this evening before I shut it down and turn off the TV?
  • If Kerry gets elected, here's hoping he is a healthy sum-bitch, because I would be tempted to beat up John Edwards if I ran into him somewhere.
  • If Bush gets elected, here's hoping the Supreme Court stays healthy because the uproar would be like another election season and I can't deal with another Michael Moore crapfest.
  • Anyone need a "Vote or Die" t-shirt? I saw one on "special" at Marshall's discount store over the weekend. Hopefully he will get back to talking about partying, hoes and bling now.
  • Maybe now Bill Maher's show will be as entertaining as it used to be before it was 100% partisan politics. There used to be some topical stuff that wasn't partisan.
  • It is raining today in Ohio. I learned on the West Wing that that means something for voter turnout. But who is more likely to melt in the rain, Democrats or Republicans?
  • We made it folks. Here's to tomorrow.

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    • 1 - Bryan

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:00 pm

      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!

    • 2 - Distorted Angel

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:03 pm

      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.

    • 3 - Eric Olsen

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:19 pm

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

    • 4 - Mark Saleski

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:19 pm

      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.

    • 5 - andy marsh

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:29 pm

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

    • 6 - Mark Saleski

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:34 pm

      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?

    • 7 - Distorted Angel

      Nov 02, 2004 at 12:41 pm

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

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