Voting Day
Aug. 10th, 2010 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakWell, my original plan of going to the poll right after the boys had lunch was derailed by Act of Jack-Jack. ^_^; I let him take his uneaten half poptart into the living room, while I got everyone's socks and shoes.... I returned to find a very sticky little boy, with red fruit paste worked into his fuzzy blond hair, and poptart fragments all over the beige carpet and more red fruit paste ground into it. ^_^;;;;
A quick run of the vacuum and one emergency bath later (which made him OH so very cross) we tried again.
My poll is in a tiny room in the basement of a very small nondenom. church. I think they use it for post-service brunches and such; there was a pass-through to the church kitchen in one wall.
There were five poll workers, six poll booths for paper ballots, and two for electronic voting. And me. ^_^ I got the impression they'd had a really slow day so far.
Mark ran around the perimeter on his tiptoes, tried making off with the rubber fingertip grips used for handling paper ballots, and made friends with the sweet elderly lady in charge of handing out 'I Voted' stickers. Jack and I handled getting my ballot card set up, and voting. (I used an electronic booth.)
Took less than a minute, once my ID was checked and the scanner card for the booth was encoded. The only contested race on the Dem. ballot was for the Senate race. I expect November's will be more interesting.
Then we went to Culver's for fries and cheese curds. ^____^
Tonight's plan? Bounce around on caffeine, work on my cross-stitch, and watch the poll coverage by the local news. My liberal nerdy heart is filled with glee. ^______^
A quick run of the vacuum and one emergency bath later (which made him OH so very cross) we tried again.
My poll is in a tiny room in the basement of a very small nondenom. church. I think they use it for post-service brunches and such; there was a pass-through to the church kitchen in one wall.
There were five poll workers, six poll booths for paper ballots, and two for electronic voting. And me. ^_^ I got the impression they'd had a really slow day so far.
Mark ran around the perimeter on his tiptoes, tried making off with the rubber fingertip grips used for handling paper ballots, and made friends with the sweet elderly lady in charge of handing out 'I Voted' stickers. Jack and I handled getting my ballot card set up, and voting. (I used an electronic booth.)
Took less than a minute, once my ID was checked and the scanner card for the booth was encoded. The only contested race on the Dem. ballot was for the Senate race. I expect November's will be more interesting.
Then we went to Culver's for fries and cheese curds. ^____^
Tonight's plan? Bounce around on caffeine, work on my cross-stitch, and watch the poll coverage by the local news. My liberal nerdy heart is filled with glee. ^______^
