Obama Has Already Won...

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

6:30 at 101st and Yale.  About #15 in line.  By 6:45, parking lot was full and the line was at least 200 strong.  People were parking across the street at the shopping center and along the ditch on the sides of the road.

Inside they were not prepared at all for the crowd.  Lines were crossing and people had to fight across the lines to get a spot to mark their ballets.  

Someone had set several copies of the RolingStone magazine with Obama on the cover on the ground outside and inside the lobby, and one of the officials had to run around and grab them up in the first few minutes of polling.

It was nice to see such a strong turnout.

As I wrote above, that entire area was a traffic disaster. Between 101st and 111th on Yale looked like a parking lot. There are three polling stations along that stretch--oh, and there is an elementary school there as well.

And yes, there were lines of people out to vote, and this was at 8:00 a.m.

[nathanm]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

6:30 at 101st and Yale.  About #15 in line.  

101st and Sheridan at 1:30 was nearly a ghost town. Literally no more people than there were for the primary. The workers were still talking about the 45 minute to 1 hour lines that they had up until 11:30 or so.

A little over 1000 people voted in my precinct before me. (My ballots were numbers 2009 and 2010 through the machine)

[carltonplace]

Damn, this is getting exciting. So many people are taking part in the process, may for the first time.

[Conan71]

#705 at Harvard Ave. Bapt. Church at 17th & Harvard around 1pm.  I waited about 35 minutes or so to vote.  It's interesting the people you see at the polls.

I saw the publisher of Urban Tulsa, the former TU Women's golf coach, the owner of my favorite book store, one of the more beloved female vocalist "divas" in town, a police helicopter pilot, and a coxswain from the Tulsa Rowing Club.

And all those people are probably talking about the walking anachronism they saw at the polls today.

[PonderInc]

I voted at 10:00 and inserted ballots # 651 and 652.  Since there were two ballots, that means I was about the 325th person to vote...which would be an average of a hundred people/hour.  Not bad.  

There were about 25-30 people in front of me, and the whole thing took 20 minutes.

Pretty cool, considering how low voter turnouts often are.  I hate it when I'm #57 at lunch time.  On the other hand, I guess my vote has much more power on those days...

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I voted at 9 am, and about 150 had voted--not that great of a turnout, but my precinct has one of the lowest voter turn out in the city.

Hey, Waterboy, keep in mind that there were two pages voting, so if the machine read 472, then actually 236 people had voted before you.  Still pretty good for our precinct.

Geez. I didn't think of that. I guess that was spin! Pretty good for 10 am. Usually around 120 for the whole day.

[nathanm]

So I was just looking at the sample ballots online and realized that I failed to vote for the congresspeople. And that was after spoiling another ballot.  

Obviously I'm not very with it today. [B)] [V]

Given that our machines are perfectly capable of rejecting undervotes, is there a particular reason that they aren't set up that way, or is it just that nobody bothered?

[Conan71]

^^^^Eh, I'm going to refrain...for now...

[HoneySuckle]

What was the turnout in Tulsa?  

I had hoped we would be rid of Inhofe but I see our Okie friends can't stand change.  They'd rather have the same old system in place.