My vote's in!
Nov. 7th, 2006 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunAfter waiting all damn day because I didn't have time before work and my workplace is too far out from my polling place to make it practical on my lunch hour, and being extra careful NOT to mention politics around my Dittohead boss even a tee-nine-sy little bit, I finally got away from work and made it to my date with the Diebold machine at the elementary school near our South Buckhead apartment, with a half an hour left before the place closed (although the Georgia SecState's office was reported to have said that anyone still in line at 7 PM would be allowed to vote, no matter how long it took).
No line at all, despite it still being evening rush hour and lotsa people getting off work. The wet and cold weather all day may have depressed turnout slightly, but poll workers said the traffic had been steady but not overwhelming. Our local NPR station reports we may even have exceeded local turnout expectations of around 48 percent of registered voters. Quick and painless (except for wondering what the hell to do about all those state supreme-court justices running unopposed, knowing next to nothing about most of them). Click, click, click, and I was done and got my sticker with the picture of a peach bearing the legend "I'm A Georgia Voter."
Now I just have to tune in around 9 or so to the TV news shows and hope like hell enough Democrats like me held their noses and voted for Mark Taylor to unseat Sonny Perdue and add Georgia to the list of states with new Democrat governors. And that the Dems defy growing predictions of not quite getting enough new Senators to take both houses of Congress.
No line at all, despite it still being evening rush hour and lotsa people getting off work. The wet and cold weather all day may have depressed turnout slightly, but poll workers said the traffic had been steady but not overwhelming. Our local NPR station reports we may even have exceeded local turnout expectations of around 48 percent of registered voters. Quick and painless (except for wondering what the hell to do about all those state supreme-court justices running unopposed, knowing next to nothing about most of them). Click, click, click, and I was done and got my sticker with the picture of a peach bearing the legend "I'm A Georgia Voter."
Now I just have to tune in around 9 or so to the TV news shows and hope like hell enough Democrats like me held their noses and voted for Mark Taylor to unseat Sonny Perdue and add Georgia to the list of states with new Democrat governors. And that the Dems defy growing predictions of not quite getting enough new Senators to take both houses of Congress.
