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So, Didja Vote Yet?
Nov. 4th, 2008 11:41 amMy family and I were up at the crack of dawn this morning and at our polling place by 6:30 am, where, I'm happy to say, there was already a long line formed. By the time the doors opened at 7:00 am, the line went around the block.
That being said, my polling place, as always, was a model of efficency. Oncethe doors were officially opened, we got through the line and cast our vote within fifteen minutes (for some reason it took Shawn a bit longer... more registered voters with last names that start with "S"? Her line was O-S, I think.) Plus, I've never really needed a privacy screen and I saw an official guy with clipboards, so I asked if I could just go ahead and use that rather than wait for an open "booth." Here in Minnesota we vote on paper. We fill out something that looks a little like the SAT tests you took in school, except that instead of a #2 pencil, we use special markers to completely fill in the circles. Ball point pens, however, are also valid. Once the ballot is filled out it gets sucked into a machine that electronically records the vote... but there's an actual paper trail, which has always made me feel secure.
It was easy. It was fast. It was... ridiculously exciting. I'm actually still kind of pumped from casting my ballot, as it were. Just think... tomorrow morning we could have the first black president of the United States.
Wouldn't that be f**king awesome?
That being said, my polling place, as always, was a model of efficency. Oncethe doors were officially opened, we got through the line and cast our vote within fifteen minutes (for some reason it took Shawn a bit longer... more registered voters with last names that start with "S"? Her line was O-S, I think.) Plus, I've never really needed a privacy screen and I saw an official guy with clipboards, so I asked if I could just go ahead and use that rather than wait for an open "booth." Here in Minnesota we vote on paper. We fill out something that looks a little like the SAT tests you took in school, except that instead of a #2 pencil, we use special markers to completely fill in the circles. Ball point pens, however, are also valid. Once the ballot is filled out it gets sucked into a machine that electronically records the vote... but there's an actual paper trail, which has always made me feel secure.
It was easy. It was fast. It was... ridiculously exciting. I'm actually still kind of pumped from casting my ballot, as it were. Just think... tomorrow morning we could have the first black president of the United States.
Wouldn't that be f**king awesome?