Voted!

[charlottezweb]

R woke us up at 615am with a sniffle so we decided to go ahead and get up and go Vote! We made it to the polling place a few minutes before it opened at 7am and stood in line for an hour and forty-five minutes to cast our votes on fancy new electronic touch screen voting machines. Kept R quiet in line, overheard other people's conversations, argued with poll worker about her interpretation of federal law*, voted, headed out for work. People were getting pretty cranky by the time I left but I think you'd have to be really out of it not to have heard about the expected long lines. SC doesn't offer early voting, not really anyway, so most everyone had to come stand in line today. And stand and stand and stand...They did have chairs actually, but no waters or anything. The election, other than for the presidency, wasn't that exciting--three referendums and a few local races, like the school board. A number of people were running unopposed. We got our stickers and I went to work. Now I'm all on pins and needles, waiting for work to be over so I can go get my free ice cream and obsess abt the returns. :)




*Someone was wearing a YMCA shirt and the back said, "democracy is not a spectator sport: vote" The poll worker made the guy put his jacket back on because you can't wear anything political in the polling place. Um. When she tried to tell me it was a federal law, I told her that there was a federal law but that's not what it said. And then she said not to argue with her, and I wanted to vote...