How did voting go for you?

[wannabechef]

I'm disappointed. It's completely trivial, but I'm still disappointed.

I just voted. It took all of about one minute to fill in the dots associated with the people I wanted. It was like being in High School again. "Fill them in completely, don't go outside the lines!" I did a good job considering I was hopped up on coffee.

But my disappointment came after I turned in my ballot. I've been voting in every election since '96, and after I turn my ballot in I'm usually rewarded with this little sticker. I didn't get one this time.

Yeah, it's trivial. But still, I can't shake it.

I did get a nice knit cap for winter though. My polling place was a church, and the old church ladies we selling knit things and baked goods. So at least I got a step closer to being prepared for winter.

[wannabechef]

Apparently my new home doesn't give out "I voted" stickers. I think that's just un-American.

[jesse vigilante]

We get free shit for our stickers. Ben and Jerrys was giving out free ice cream cones to voters today. Also, there is an election party at a local music venue with no cover charge for voters that I'm about to hit up.

The voting itself was fairly uneventful. Although they did ask me to take of my "Let Nader Debate" button, which I didn't, as technically it's not electioneering. It's referring to the debates, and not trying to persuade anyone to vote for him necessarily. I won my argument, and got to wear the button while voting. :)

And the local Ron Paul campaign organizer asked me to drink with him and watch the election results tonight, which I'm sharing with you only to comment on its irony. I respectfully declined, but it had nothing to do with Ron Paul. I promise.

[wannabechef]

Cool. My only post election plans are what I'm already doing: hosting a skype chat with various people. Some people are playing music on occassion, we're all being irreverent pricks, and just kinda having a good old time.

[Willie]

My voting experience? Well, I don't like lines, and there was a line. . .you can have my sticker if you really want one, but I understand your disappointment in your town.
I find it amazing that they use churches as polling places. Isn't it a conflict of interest to vote on an issue like abortion and candidates who support it in the house of the lawd? By putting a polling place in a church, the attempt seems to be to convert the heretics and thereby convert their political ideologies. I guess it's true that we have freedom of religion and not from it. I'll bet those holy rollers stole the damned stickers too! (Jesus will forgive them).

[thisismyfunnyname]

Voting went great for me. Before voting, while I was jogging, an SUV with an Obama sticker nearly ran me over.

[jesse vigilante]

Foreshadowing at its best.

[Izzie Bean]

My voting was very uneventful. Wore my Ron Paul button and voted for Nader. I got my sticker and there wasn't any line.

My mind is troubled though. My district is.. well.. for lack of a better term.. whitey-ville. It's deep south Georgia.. a state which has been Republican for a long time. This election proved to be the same..... but why? When I went to vote, I was the only white person there besides one poll worker. Typically, all the poll workers are Caucasian. I've never even seen a person of another race besides white voting at that location.. yet the room was full of African Americans. In my head, I thought "Wow, good for them. They are working the polls to make sure the elections are fair. They are voting".

Let me preface, I realize that not all blacks would vote for Obama. But the number of black voters in my usual voting place were so significantly different that it was enough for me to take notice. I really thought that Obama would take Georgia. So why then did McCain get such high numbers in our state?

We use the Diebold. Am I just building up a conspiracy in my own head or could there be some corruption which was ignored since Obama won by a landslide?

[jesse vigilante]

Electioneering is not enforced in your state, I guess. We're not allowed to wear election related t-shirts, buttons, or even drive to the polls without having any bumper stickers covered up.

[Izzie Bean]

Ya! I have to admit I felt a bit awkward when I read the sign behind me while voting. It talked about all the fines you can get for trying to persuade someone to vote a certain way with signs etc within 100 yards of the voting place. I took a second and looked at the Ron Paul button.. kind of giggled and thought "HI MOM, I'M GOING TO JAIL".

I thought I remember during the primaries where some of the Ron Paul people were holding up banners at the election places on the news. Is electioneering not enforced for primaries?

To be quite honest, I didn't even know until I read the sign that there was any law against signs or buttons. Nice job on winning the battle to keep your debate button on.

[Meredith]

I waited in line somwhere between 45 minutes and an hour. I think I may have waited longer than that in 2004. I got an "I Voted" sticker and let my son wear it.