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Thank goodness for Lee Child! I have been so wrapped up with the election, the only thing to take my mind off of the election was the new Jack Reacher book that I just received.
The diner was busier than usual at 0630, voting was already heavy, opening a 0700, when I drove by at 0720 and heavier when I drove by at 0735. Even the student life at William & Mary was out and about early.
Gary – What’s the name of the book? @jclimacus what town are you in up there?
Danvers. I’ve lived here for 27 years but I’ll always be an outsider. That’s New England, and I love it.
But Baker. And Sununu. North of you. Exit 1 Seacoast. I love the drive home – from wherever. It’s lovely every season. Heading to poll with EODDad before he drives to work in NAndover.
yeah, I get you. There’s a limit on the craziness here, though. We’re not California.
One hopes. We are not voting for governor this time. I can’t vote for a tyrant. And his father/mother live in our neighborhood and are lovely. He’s just shy of a dope. On day after 2016 election mom said: We always wondered what he would do. Just shy of a dope is Chris. I’m sorry you have Charlie Parker.
Arrived at poll same time as usual. Waited 1:25 to be voter #80. Usually I’m voter number under 20 and finished in 5 mins of polls opening.
Special process to void my absentee ballot that was not needed.
Saw a democrat table outside. No republican table. Only one person handing out literature.
No demonstrators, just people waiting their turn to vote.
Overall good experience.
Hopefully a good result.
I wonder about the mail in ballots, early voting, and how the early long line at the poll correlates with that narrative.
My old neck of the woods next door in Beverly (BHS grad). MA is CA lite, but God Bless for persevering.
Hubby got to the poll at 0625 and had to wait about 20 minutes (five of which were for them to open). He said this was par for the course. I’ll go when I get off work at 2. We are just outside Raleigh, in the county.
My mom and brother are poll workers in southside Virginia. I will get an update from them when they get off this evening.
We mailed in our absentee ballots weeks ago. I feel anticipation, and yet feel calm over the election at this point. I hope that’s a positive intuition, of course, but if not, it will have gotten me through the day.
In Boston? In Boston! Is it a conservative or blue collar neighborhood?
The lovely Mrs E and I dropped off our NJ ballots last week at one of the approved drop-off boxes. Supposedly they get picked up every day. NJ has a track-your-ballot website. So far it still does not show that our ballots have been received. I’m fairly certain they are both already shredded into mulch for Corey Booker’s garden.
We may opt to swing by the polling place and file provisional ballots – just in case. Corey’s garden may need more mulch.
“The Sentinel.” It arrived on Tuesday!
I’m in a town about a half hour north of Boston. There is a fair amount of conservative support in the towns (like in a lot of Blue states). My town went 51% – 43% for Hillary in 2016. Several of the surrounding towns actually had Trump majorities. All swamped by the huge Hillary vote in Boston of course.
We will be spending the day raking leaves and winterizing the trailer: We usually work the polls, and therefore voted absentee (in a drop off box) several weeks ago. But we didn’t get the call this year (RHIT they are trying to run the polls without 60+ yo volunteers, due to COVID) and will have the day unexpectedly free.
Living in red state Idaho, the election signs on private property are overwhelmingly Trump / Republican. We recently took a driving trip all the way to Michigan and back for a niece’s wedding, and signs/flags, etc., were overwhelmingly Trump throughout, except for one area near Grand Rapids (Holland, MI) where it was more equally balanced.
Ekosj,
If the NJ computer is like the Florida computer, the ballot that you cast at the polling place should count (and not provisionally but conclusively). However, Sparticus may have saved you money and gone with the low-cost vote-counting software. No ID required just one big button on the screen that says, “Good Enough”.
Regards,
Jim
My mind still isn’t made up. Really tough choice here. Do I vote for Lyndon LaRouche or Evan McMullan?
I was going to vote on Election Day but then decided I would go on Sunday as they had the polls open for four days. In California, they severely reduced the number of polling places and given that I had just come back from vacation, I was concerned the line would be too long and I would lose half a day of getting back to work. But I was sorry I did as I like the thrill and camaraderie of going to the polls on election day, so I won’t do it again. I’ll just plan my vacations better. I am getting angrier and angrier at our chattering class (including the media) and what they have done to suck all of the fun out of election day. I used to feel the majesty of it all-doing my civic duty on election day as we have done in an unbroken line back to the 1700’s. The left ruins everything.
Zachary Steiber, The Epoch Times:
NJ is exactly the opposite. In person ballot is provisional and is only counted if there is no mail-in ballot. Why? Murphy’s Law. Literally.
Always go with the dead one. Lyndon is no longer with us right??
Ecosj,
The computer already told you that there is no mail-in ballot received by the board of elections for you whether you sent one or not. I would assume that would mean that your in-person ballot will be accepted as final and counted. If not NJ is even weirder than I thought.
Regards,
Jim
They probably won’t decide if they have a ballot for me and how I voted until they know how many votes their preferred candidates for the sheriff, county clerk and county officials (Board of Freeholders in NJ) need.
Ekosj,
Is that Freeholders or Freeloaders?
Regards,
Jim
He’ll always be in my heart.
You have to love NJ. They aren’t even pretending anymore. After weeks of assuring everyone that vote by mail was easy o so easy and Safe and secure and we could track our ballots online; the NJ Track My Ballot website now displays:
And they won’t say if your ballot was accepted or rejected until AFTER the final tally is certified on 20 Nov. So, may I ask, was the point? It’s all empty promises up front to make you feel good, then when it’s too late to change, they drop the hammer. Gott’a love NJ.
Well, at least Michigan is getting it right (in my town, anyway).
Thanks for providing the funniest comment of the morning. I really needed that laugh.
No line in my suburban Chicago precinct. Staffed in part by high school kids–Cook county had some active outreach to recruit high school and college age kids to run precincts because there is a shortage of poll workers. My husband went to an early voting location last week and he had to wait 45 minutes. Many more Republican signs than democrat signs. The Democrat signs were placed in such a way that you wouldn’t be able to read any of them until you were leaving. No donuts, either. There are always donuts and coffee. Covid cooties, I suppose.
Added: drove by the firehouse and a big DOT sign indicated that the voting location there had been moved around the corner to the high school.