Newport News, Virginia Election 2008
This is a very special piece for MBILF, it documents how I voted this morning. First, I’m happy to say I voted on a paper ballot which was sent through an optical scanner. Reports from Williamsburg indicate it’s the same there. There was one real computer you could vote on as well, but nobody was using it.
I arrived at 5:30 am, 30 minutes before polls opened. It was drizzling, and hard to find parking. The lot was almost full. I saw about 120 or so people ahead of me in shitty-counting, and by the time I got in, another 250 or so people behind me. I showed my voter ID card (the thing they send you in the mail after registering), gave my name and address (I guess you need to have memorized it to vote), and was given a ballot. I marked Barack Obama for president, on paper, with marker pen. I was going to vote Libertarian for the other two options, but I decided, fuck it, and voted D both times. Bill Day and Mark Warner.
I was given sample ballots by the democratic and republican representative. The democratic one had the democrats in bold, the republican had the republicans in bold. On the back of the democratic one, instructions on how to make sure you vote, and if there’s problems who to contact. On the other republican sheet, info on how you need to vote for mccain because obama is evil. I kept these and have scanned the republican one in.
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He also asked me, right after I took this shot, to “please vote McCain-Palin”:
See the blue doors? That’s the entrance.
Oh well. I voted. I also reported it to 1-866-our-vote.
leadsling had this to say,
November 6, 2008 @ 10:15 am
So you reported it along with Hillary politicking right in the middle of the polling place?
Tom had this to say,
November 12, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
I didn’t see Hillary.