I VOTED

No sticker, but in and out in about 5 minutes. I must've timed it just right because it was really starting to get crowded when I left.

Whew...

My mom and I went to vote right after the polls opened here at six. It wasn't too bad then - but I live in a very small town. Even at ten after six, we were still the sixteenth and seventeenth people to vote. I hate to think what it would be like tonight

Just got back, and I got my sticker.

Hubby said it was a nightmare when they opened at 7, but I only waited ten minutes or so (longest I've ever waited, though). No stickers here either... Wonder why?

Haven't voted yet, but we will later. That's super everyone's voting!

My husband and I got to the polls at 5:56 a.m. and in our little hometown corner they had people in the high school (where we voted) parking lot, directing traffic! And there was a line to get in but it moved quickly. We were back home by 6:13.

I asked the people working the polls there if they'd ever seen it so busy so early on election day and the reply was, "Never."

I voted. By absentee ballot.

I didn't want to deal with the ladies at the polling place.
Them: Dear, I can't find your name in the book.
Me: Uh, that's not how my last name is spelled. S-k-a...
Them: S-a-a...
Me: No! S-k-a...Never mind. Let me have the book. (Tug of war ensues.)

The above has happened too many times. Minus the tug of war, though. That only happened once. Usually someone who can hear and see comes along to help.

My fastest/easiest voting experience ever (and I vote in pretty much every election -- not just the presidential). NO ONE on line ahead of me at just before 10 a.m. and only one other guy even voting. He was kinda cute, so I gave him a smooch as he was leaving.

Funny that my dh and I arrived there at the same time and were the only two voters.

stormie said:

Me: No! S-k-a...Never mind. Let me have the book. (Tug of war ensues.)

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I smell a conspiracy.

After dinner. Polls are open 'til 8:00pm.

I'm just going to steal some else's sticker and put it on my shirt.

So I totally don't turn 18 until next wed. :[ Makes me sad. Wish i could vote. I totally would. But I'm proud of everyone getting out there and voting. My daddy will give me his "i voted" sticker. He doesn't like to wear them.... Dunno why.

it was not good, i turn 18 in 19 days. so in other words, i just got to wish i could.

I stood in line about one minute, I voted, and got my sticker!

Nivarion said:

it was not good, i turn 18 in 19 days. so in other words, i just got to wish i could.

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Yeah, sounds unfair - you gotta be 18 on election day, but as I interpret the Constitution (though it's extremely unlikely I'll be nominated for SCOTUS), the President doesn't have to be 35 until January 20th. Not that anyone that young has ever been a serious candidate.

They don't hand out stickers at my polling place.

I got a sticker; 'twas a happy moment. I went around 10:30a, walked right in. It was sort of surreal.

Anyone else ever panic after voting, thinking that somehow you got it wrong, and how does your ballot not get irrevocably lost to the puny scanner machine? After two years of campaigning, it all comes down to a black mark in a selected circle. I was automatically faced with, "It's got to be more complicated than this. Did I do it right?"

^ a life-long worrier (obviously.)

I do worry -- the voting machines scare me. Now, I'm a total techie so it's not the hardware or software. But the idea that what if my vote didn't register? What if there was a glitch? What if the power went off while I was voting? What if I clicked on the wrong boxes? What if there's no trail of my vote? What if...

In some way, I trust paper ballots more than voting machines. It's a comfort thing, for some reasons. Like I still prefer paper books to e-Books, even though I'm no technophobe.

I voted right after class. Unfortunately, I have never taken a serious look at politics until I came on this board. So I've only voted during Presidential elections. I have moved a couple of times since the last election.

I went to the place it said on my voter's registration. The voting moved to the church a block away. So I went down there. They did some stuff in the computer to change the address. Then I had to drive 50 blocks up the road to my new voting district. Luckily I found it very easily. It is the church right next to my apartment complex.

I had to get checked out by them and had some sort of handwritten thing made so I could vote. It took me about 10 minutes all total. I got a sticker.

We had some amendments here in Florida and while I was at the first voting district a lady came up and asked how to translate the amendments into Spanish because of all the legalese. But no one really knew how. I had a hard time understanding them and English is my only language. Why can't they write those in plain English.