Just came back from voting here in NY. I hear on the news that lines in the city are huge. Out here in the burbs voting is brisk but not overwhelming. When I arrived there were about 5 people ahead of me for the district. it seemed that the other districts at our polling station were doing about the same. I was very glad to vote and get it overwith. This has been a long election season. I saw one W sticker in the lot. However there was many support the troops stickers out. I have a theory that is a secret symbol for those voting for Bush here in NY.

I voted!

Glastonbury, Connecticut, 6:02 AM. It was crowded.

I voted Bush, but I'm guessing I'll be very lonely in that respect.

I voted last weekend. For Bush, of course.

Early voting at my precinct was not at all crowded.

I've actually decided to buck the trend and open up a polling place here in my own living room. I put some flyers and balloons out front, and a big sign that just says VOTE HERE! I printed up some meaningless ballots with nonsensical state questions (not that CA has such great questions on the real ballot; no one will notice) and began handing out a stack of stickers to visitors that say "Andre the Giant has a Posse", under which I scribbled I VOTED.

There's a skinny kid who took up a position in my hallway with a "BUSH LIED BABIES DIED" t shirt on who was hassling the people as they dropped by. He seemed rather surprised when I poured hot coffee on his head and kicked him out the door. He's on a cell phone--the nice kind with the color screen--calling for reinforcements. I'll brew more coffee.

There's some sort of church group coming through now; they smell like Unitarians and all their ballots are for Nader. They've refused my proffered absinthe and got back into some sort of Econoline van.

Other than them turnout has been light, but it's like farkin 5:00 AM out here. I'll keep you posted until Ace tells me to shut up and get my own blog.

I'm a Democrat here in Queens, New York, who just voted for the Bush-Cheney ticket. I voted here in Astoria, Queens, and there were two people in front of me in line at 7 a.m. It's a little hard for me to understand why people won't give Bush credit for keeping us safe from further attack for the last three years. I voted against Bush in 2000, but I watched him stand up at the UN and finally put the Axis of Weasals on notice. For that alone, not to mention the successful take-down of the Taliban and Saddam's House of Horrors, I would vote for Bush. If Americans can't see that he has offered really gutsy leadership, then we deserve a nonentity like Kerry. But I believe that when the majority of Americans step into the booths today, they will give credit where credit is due.

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I just finished down here in Philly. The line at the firehouse was pretty short--about a ten minute wait. They said that they had 45 people waiting when they opened at 7 and they are expecting an enormous crowd tonight. I'll have to go down and get pictures perhaps. There were some goons from MoveOn PAC standing outside of the place.

They asked me for my ID, as they should have, since I'm new to the precinct. I hope they keep doing that all day.

Just voted for Bush! I'm one of those broken glass voters...would walk on broken glass to vote for him. I waited 40 minutes in my little township to vote. I had ballot 127 at 8:00. The couple ahead of me was very pro-Bush and the mother and daughter behind me were for Kerry. PA is 50%-50%, but I'm feeling bullish!

Forecast calls for rain in the afternoon here. Thirty minutes of my wait was outside in the parking lot, so I'm assuming that turnout will be depressed in the afternoon.

See Dubya - you're a stitch!

I'm an illegal alien in Philadelphia.

When I voted at 7:00, the line was about 10 minutes. ( Not too long. )

When I voted at 8:15, the line was about 25 minutes.

I'm now heading out to the suburbs to vote some more. I'll post updates throughout the day.

Thanks, Carin. It's getting difficult to post because Serafino just showed up. He's a UN observer from Tunisia and his English isn't as good as his Italian, which is still a little worse than his, um, Tunisian. But I fed him some pancakes and popped in a tape of McQ, one of John Wayne's underappreciated works.

I don't think he suspects anything yet but he looks surprised at my Cox & Forkum 'W branding the Donkey' T - Shirt. So does this fat girl that just came in. I bet she's voting yes on Prop 66--softening CA's three strikes law--so she can get to spend christmas with her family. Hey get out of my pancake batter! Gotta go.

The lines weren't too atrocious at about 7:15 AM. I saw too many kids with bolts through their faces---KerryMoore supporters, doubtless.

This is an evil blue state. But I see a LOT of those Support Our Troops/God Bless America ribbons on cars.

OF COURSE I VOTED BUSH!!!! What did you think?

I voted - Bush/Cheney!

According to poll workers, it's been a busy morning at my polling station in Wyoming, Michigan. A relatively conservative, but also relatively unionized area...

11/2/04

My family and I endorse President Bush and Vice President Cheney. We voted for the Bush/Cheney ticket last week and so will not be included in any exit polls.

Lonnie Kendall

I voted absentee in Ohio for Bush. My ballot was sent in three weeks ago.

My girlfriend (voting for Kerry, sadly) told me there was an hour-long wait in her Columbus suburb. That's not good news for the Bush campaign, I think.

Mineapolis MN, Voted for George Bush, Jim Ramstad, Jeff Johnson, and former Viking lineman Alan Page!!!

I live in a dark blue portion of a red state. We are a small town (9,000) in a rural area. Before the polls opened at 7:30, there was a small line outside my polling place. When I went to vote about 8:15, there was no line at all. I got my ballot and went straight into the booth.

I cast my vote for President Bush and checked my ballot for any chads. We don't to go through that again.

I voted Bush. My precinct was more crowded than I've ever seen it in the 20+ years I've lived in the Richmond area. I know that Bush is carrying this state, but I'm interested in seeing how it all turns out.

Sun's jsut coming up here in CA and we've had about thirty people through the living room. I'm playing Merle Haggard outside to drown out the Move On kid I poured coffee on; he's outside squealing about disenfranchisement and it woke the baby up.

Serafino's getting mad at me because I was all asking this one dude for ID. He thought I was hard on him because of his color, which was sort of gray. But I was a hardass because Vlad--that was the dude's name--had a space on his driver license identifying his blood type as "none". He didn't have a Bar membership card, so that was fishy. And his date of birth was like 6/6/1508.

Vlad had that sort of weird John Kerry botox look and he was pretty upset about my hassling him. I said hey buddy, this isn't Cook COunty and if you've died, you can't vote. Finally Vlad took off because the sun was coming up--he said he had to get to work-- and Serafino was threatening to write me up to Kofi. he was all in my face about disenfranchising the differently lifed.

Finally I said, "look at that cool submachine gun John Wayne has!", and he lost interest.

Franklin, Massachusetts. I voted for President Bush. I also voted for my excellent Republican State Senator, Scott Brown and the Republican running for the House of Reps (who will lose). Expect some big things from Brown nationally if he wins. He could become a *Republican* holding national office from Massachusetts.

There was a good crowd, but no lines. There was a line to get into the parking lot. Voting took less than 10 minutes. Very efficient. Machine read paper ballots.

As with Lonnie, we voted last week (absentee). Most of our associates voted the same way. They and we hang up on pollsters. I sense we are not alone in that respect.

Two anecdotal observations on this election:

1. A "Mass-hole" (dyed in the wool Mass. lib.) friend voted Bush, and said while Kerry was good for Mass., he'd be a disaster for the nation.

2. Another friend, a rabid Bush-hating, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage type; when faced with finally pulling the lever, grudgingly went for Bush, saying while he still hated Bush, he did not trust Kerry.

The 1984 Mondale/Reagan polling? Too close to call. Right up until the landslide. Reagan took 49 states.

My conclusion:
Bush will take 40 states, 303 electoral votes.

an hour and 45 minutes to vote for Bush in Maryland -- huge, massive turnout. I've never waited more than 15 minutes to vote in my life.

In the belly of the beast - Bradford, Massachusetts, 40 minutes north of Boston. More of a crowd than I'm used to, but in and out in about 5-10 minutes. Voted straight Republican down the line. In my heart of hearts, I think Kerry's got it sewn up - but I pray to GOD I'm wrong. If the Berkshire hills are alive tomorrow with the sound of mourning, I'll know the Republic is safe for four more years.

Only light-to-moderate traffic here outside Boston-- taking the day off and waiting until after 10:00 was a good idea it seems. Just me and a bunch of old people.

I went straight Republican. NOW will you quit griping about libertarians?

Sarah: Where in Maryland, and when? My wait was about 2 minutes (I was 5th in line for 20 machines), at 9:55 in the part of Catonsville closest to the Baltimore city line, i.e. inside the beltway.

Here in Indianapolis the weather's been pretty ugly so there weren't a whole lot of people there. Voted straight GOP, though I have little doubt that Evan "John Edwards doesn't like as much like a Ken doll as I do" Bayh and Julia "Maxine Waters, only with some dignity" Carson aren't going anywhere. I do hope, though,l that Gov. Joe "Captain Eyebrows" Kernan will be sent packing.

Two dudes just stumbled in with dilated pupils and Badnarik buttons. I sat them down in my office in front of ye olde Mac Classic and booted up Wesleyan Tetris. I told them we had touchscreen voting at this precinct.

They're still there, and quite happy, though they reek of hemp and have gone through three plates of pancakes.

I voted BC last week in Ga early voting. Talked to my wife this morning who said there was only a 15 minute wait when she went this morning but the poll workers said the early line had been 45-60 minute wait.

Please send JFK back to Mass

Lowkey

I cast a vote for futility and gave the big touchscreen-push for Bush/Cheney, Pipkin, and Floyd (all three of which will be trounced) here in Potomac, MD. The state really isn't as geographically "blue" as it's made out to be - the Bay counties and Frederick/Cumberland, etc. are pretty socially conservative and provided the margin that got Ehrlich elected in '02 - but Baltimore, Prince Georges, and my own Montgomery county are heavily blue and largely populated.

The polls at my local suburban middle school were middling. I can't compare them to '02, since I was voting in Baltimore back then (while at JHU), but there didn't seem to be much enthusiasm either way. Keep in mind I cast my vote at around 8:00 AM.

N.B.: The "trouncing" I was referring to extends only to the state of Maryland, not the nation. Bush is gonna pull this one out, even if it requires novocaine and a set of pliers.

I did "flex hours" today. Make the time up later so I don't have the huge wait after 5 o'clock. As was, 50 minutes in line. Huge turnout. Worried - in a Blue State - that our excellent House Rep may go down with Bush on a big turnout.

A comforting sign - Vets against Kerry out in force. As bad as Bush has been domestically with his fatcat cronyism - the Vets remind voters that Kerry has no integrity, strength, or honor. And may persuade voters that if Bush is a bumbling Ford, Kerry is another Carter.

I waited about 20 minutes to cast my vote in Southern New Jersey around 8 am this morning. I pulled into the parking lot blaring "The Angry American" by Toby Keith and got a hardy handshake from the guy in the spot next to me in an F-250 with the "I'm in the NRA and I vote!" bumper sticker. I asked where his "Guns Don't Kill people, I kill people" sticker was. Thankfully he was amused. He decided that he would further amuse himself by growling loudly at the teenage democrap handing out flyers outside of the school. I immediately went to the polling station director to complain that the kid was handing out flyers well within 100 feet of a polling station and she promptly had the little bastard removed from the parking lot.

Voted this morning in the northern Chicago suburbs (precinct 126, to be exact). No wait at all, hardly anyone there except for a few old people. The poll workers consisted of two twentyish guys with "Republican" tags and six old biddies who were Democrats.

Granted, it won't mean a thing, seeing as I'm still in Cook County. But at least I tried :).

I've been busy...has CBS called the election for Kerry yet?

Cast my vote in Alabama today. Lines were long, but I have no doubt that the state will go Bush.

The wife and I voted for Bush here in Cleveland Heights. I was number 240 for the day and had to wait about 35 minutes. Usually I just walk right in. Hard to say what this means, but my brother informed me he just voted for a democrat for the first time. I think alot of Ohioans feel the same way. My guess is that Kerry takes Ohio.

"Vlad" came back in. He was not undead after all, but rather David Gest, Liza Minelli's husband. He was trying to vote here in CA for prop 71, guaranteeing state funding for stem cell research. He tried to smile and said "Now I will live forever!"

Sad.

Dr. Weevil -- Montgomery County, Maryland. A DC exurb. I got there around 7:30.

Like Sonetka, I voted in the northern suburbs of Chicago (Precinct 196). Got there at 6:50 to a line out the door. Wait wasn't terribly long, only about 20 minutes (thankfully they had 2 check-in tables with 3 people working each table), but I've never had it take more than 5 before. Plus, my township has at least 5 polling places for fewer than 21,000 people and the parking lots were packed at the 3 I saw. Proudly voted a straight R ticket, as did my hubby. Unfortunately, it won't do a thing at the Presidential level since Illinois always goes D. But hopefully we'll retain the Republicans already in state offices and judicial posts.

Oh, and See-Dubya -- thanks for giving me my first laugh of a crappy day. :) You're cracking me up.

Dallas, Texas. Went at 10am CST. I voted straight Republican. Of course I'm not concerned that Texas won't go Bush but I'm in the district where the heated Congressional race between Martin Frost and Pete Sessions is taking place. I brought my one year old and was in and out. Didn't wait in any line and it took me a total of 5 minutes. Lot's of Bush/Cheney bumper stickers in the parking lot. Very nice poll workers working at the Baptist church. My husband will go after work.

Ha ha! Bright beautiful weather here in No Cal, as is traditional. david Gest went outside to talk to the moveon guys and all his plastic face started to melt in the sunshine. Dude looked like that little German creep when they opened the Ark. He's running around shrieking like the wicked witch and scared off the protestors. Even Serafino was laughing. It'll take a crapload of embryo stem-cell shakes to fix that mess!

Voted in suburban Omaha NE at 8 AM this morning. There was a line of about 100 people at 7:45 when I arrived. By 8:00 it had swelled to 150-200. This is truly a historic election...the free world depends on the outcome. Viva Bush!

Jersey Matt - That was good. Thank you for doing your civic duty!

Well, I'm getting hassled by the man. Attracted by the shrieking and the coffee-scalded protestors, a Republican poll-watching lawyer named Carl came by.

He was, frankly, a little Agent Smithic which probably works well in his line of work. He came in, tracking some gobs of David Gest face-plastic into my front hall, and didn't even apologize for it. (Any tips on removing that?)

Serafino got off the couch and started telling Carl how I was discriminating against vampires. He looked at me like, "Dude, WTF?" and I explained that this was a UN observer. Ah ha, said Carl, as if that perfectly explained this particular manifestation of idiocy.

So Carl poked around awhile and looked at the huge stack of bogus ballots I'd managed to collect, and he talked to the two baked libertarians still captivated by my Mac Classic "touch screen" machine, where they had voted themselves to level five.

Let me get this straight, he said to me. You've collected over eighty ballots from complete idiots under false pretenses?

Yeah.

And duped two libertarians into playing Tetris? Scalded moveon protestors with hot coffee, and melted David Gest's face?

Pretty Much.

And that's a UN observer here on your couch, watching John Wayne, instead of observing real elections?

Yeah.

Carl gave me a little Agent Smith smile, and said he'd back me up if the Feds rolled around. I offered him some pancakes, and he settled in to observe the rest of McQ. Whew. I was kinda scared there.

I don't know what all the whining about long lines is about. The first three times I voted today, I hardly had to wait at all. The fourth time, I had to wait like 5 minutes.

No big deal.

Voted for Bush/Cheney.

My little township here in rural Ohio was very busy @ 0630 hrs. I recieved ballot #70. There were 2 other precincts voting in the same polling place and all had lines. I sure do not like Ohio being under the micro-scope, but with the Dems. paying registration volunteers in Crack, I guess it is to be expected.

Here is to a decisive win for Bush, a fair election, and a bright future for our country.

Manhattan, NY

My polling place at Wall St was nuts at 6:30 when I showed up. Neither machine was working and they didn't start handing out ballots until 7:15. I had to leave at that point though to monitor the 8 Henry St poll (www.justdemocracy.org). I just voted at 3 o'clock. Even at 3 in the afternoon I waited 45 minutes. There were 100+ people waiting. Crazy.

Houston (suburbs): Knowing that my vote here doesn't really matter in the big race, I voted individual races rather than straight ticket. My only reason for doing so was that I voted for David van Os (D), on the recommendation of my attorney, who absolutely knows his shit and said that, Burkett-as-client or not, van Os was the best candidate for the Supreme Court.

Most other choices were unopposed Republicans. (Yawn - should have voted straight ticket and saved the time!) My wife, who didn't talk to my attorney, voted straight R ticket, and beat me out of the polling station by about a minute.

Long, long lines, but only 2.5 hours, start to finish. Everyone was polite and upbeat. High point of the event: My wife called a friend to tell her that she (my wife) was voting to cancel out the vote of her friend's husband, who hates Bush. The friend said, "Don't worry - I already did." Makes me wish we still lived in Ohio...