So, what was it like when you went to vote today (or earlier for you people who did the early voting)?

My voting place is just down the block from where I live; so, I walked down, signed in and only had to wait behind two people. After I voted, I walked out and then decided to enjoy the unseasonably warm weather and walk to work.

Except for specifically choosing the Republican candidate for District Attorney (who is actually a Democrat), I voted various third party lines (which, here in New York State, doesn't mean much since most of the third parties here tend to adopt the Democrat or the Republican, e.g. a Democrat on the Conservative line or on the Working Families line, one candidate on all the party lines, a Republican on the Independent line).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

I voted about two weeks ago and I enjoyed it, though I don't get to do the whole voting booth experience, which I would like to do sometime.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

I took advantage of the early voting a couple of weeks ago. I walked right in with no wait and was glad to avoid the crowds that I know will be swamping the polling places today.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Our voting booths are 1930s technology but I like them. Going into the booth, closing the curtain, flipping the switches, and opening the curtain again is such a simple process and I never have to worry about "accidentally" punching a hole for Buchannan (like people whined about in Florida in 2000).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

I voted early because I am an election official.

We have a 'poll watcher' who quickly learned that there was nothing to watch.....other than the paint dry.

We have had no incidents other than people coming to our polling local who should be elsewhere, and we tell them where to go. I even drew a map.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Smoothly here. I went early (polls open at 6 a.m. here, I got there about 7:30 and there was only one guy ahead of me at that time. Cars were starting to line up along the street by the time I left, though and there were about ten people in line when I cam out of the booth. We don't get many big lines. Small city with a enough districts that it doesn't seem to make a burden on the polling spots. .

I'm in NY state too, and we still have the lever machines here also. I'm glad. We have never had a problem with them that I know of, and I see no reason to change them, at least not here.

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"I was there and I saw what you did.... saw it with my own two eyes"
Phil Collins--In the Air Tonight

Ugly. Stood in line for 2 1/2 hours. The actual voting went fine.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Hmm. Planning to go after work (5:30) and the polls close here at 7. Hope there's time.

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"Oh, bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

I waited in line for 45 minutes this morning.

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Sam