"Bob Ackley -> Jeff Binkley" <1:300/3> wrote in
news:21129$MATZDOBRE@JamNNTPd:

 JB>> I got up this morning, jumped out of bed, wanting to be the
 BA>   first in JB> line at the polls.  The polls open at 6:30.  I got to
 BA>   the polling JB> place at 6:20 and there were already a dozen people
 BA>   in front of me. JB> When I left they were streaming in.   Ohio is
 BA>   ground zero to turn JB> back Obama's agenda.  I walked out with a
 BA>   big grin on my face.

 BA> I managed to control myself until about 0900 when I went up to vote.
 BA> First time I can recall seeing so many cars parked in front of the
 BA> polling place.  Note
 BA> that my township and the one immediately north have combined their
 BA> polling places into one location.  There were 3 or 4 voters there when
 BA> I arrived and a few more arrived before I left, and I was only there
 BA> about 15 minutes; the last time I voted there I had the place to
 BA> myself.  Anyhow, after I voted I asked one
 BA> of the ladies there what the turnout was like and she said it was a
 BA> bit higher then they usually have.  And this, of course, is an
 BA> off-year election...

 BA> I did note that they did away with the electronic touch-screen voting
 BA> machines this time.  Mark/sense paper ballots that you feed into a
 BA> slot where the machine
 BA> scans the ballot on the way in and keeps it in a locked box in the
 BA> bottom.  Which
 BA> IMO is a good thing - there's a paper audit trail "just in case."

 BA> No idea how the voting is going, I guess I'll find out tomorrow
 BA> morning (the polls
 BA> here are open until 2100 and I'm not going to stay up to hear any
 BA> results).

The Nazi lost.

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