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eftychia at 08:37pm on 2012-11-06A few extra quotes for Election Day, mostly from Twitter:
"The Noise circles my camp - teeth bared, haunches raised. I toss the final Gallup poll onto the fire. Dawn approaches." -- @fivethirtynate, 2012-11-06
"We just pinpoint landed a 2,000 pound SUV on Mars. I bet we could figure out how to let everyone quickly vote if we wanted." -- @pourmecoffee, 2012-11-06
"Every single person take a second to note the people and party who are making it harder to vote and remember." -- @pourmecoffee, 2012-11-06
"So, is something supposed to happen today?" -- @dcist, 2012-11-06
"I should have guessed a tweet saying poutine is gross would be the most controversial thing we post on Election Day." -- @indecision, 2012-11-06
"That was longest line I've been in in years that didn't
have a special-effects-laden blockbuster on the other end of
it." --
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drglam,
2012-11-06
[For me, voting to sixteen minutes from arriving at the no-electioneering boundary to getting my "I Voted" sticker. For my ward, that's a long time, implying heavy turnout. From what I've been hearing, some folks had much, much longer lines.]
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I voted early because I was going to be doing campaign work on Election Day (one of the few reasons we're allowed to here in VA); the lines at my polling place were over two hours from the moment the doors opened at 6am until about noon. Part of that was because of heavy turnout and most people wanting to vote before work, but part of it was also because they were using electronic pollbooks to check people in, and one of the three machines failed for about an hour in the morning, and a second one was down for a shorter time.
There seems to be no good reason not to use paper for that function (and we do in a lot of elections.) I usually go with "never assume malice when stupidity will suffice," but the governor appointed notorious voter-fraud propagandist Hans Van Spakovsky to our county electoral board, so I think there's a reasonable chance there was an intention to cause delays.