Tuesday, November 4, 2008

My voting experience

I went to the voting place at 10am.  I decided to do some last minute research on the 10th congressional district in VA while waiting on line.  Unfortunately, there was no line, so I had to go back outside and do the research on the iPhone.  Then I went back inside armed with knowledge.  I went up, showed my ID, got my yellow voting card, then went to vote on the electronic ballot.  They had around 5 or so electronic machines, and 10 or so paper ballot stations. I'm not sure if you get to request a paper ballot or not, but there was only one person using the paper one.  There was 2 people in front of me on the electronic ballot line,  I voted, took a picture, and was nervous that I was breaking an election law by recording my vote.  Thankfully, either nobody noticed or nobody cared.

The whole thing took less than 5 minutes.

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