I just heard our local news in Michigan saying that this primary looks like a "record breaker."

[catbyte]

I'm not sure what party--probably both. Some local precincts have run out of ballots--those were Democratic ballots. Why doesn't that surprise me?!? People were turned away & told to come back, and they are pissed. Haven't heard that happening to the Republicans. Morans probably only watch Fox-PAC & they think we Democrats aren't excited about voting.

Wow. I can't wait until the polls close to see what happens.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Good

better go pack, I want to be sitting down when the returns come

[NurseJackie]

2. It's going to be an exciting evening.

[boomer55]

3. vote by mail should be the only way things are done. n/t

[LisaM]

5. No, we have that in Washington and I recently read a stat

that there were tens of thousands of rejected ballots last time. And the problem there is that you don't know your ballot was rejected until it's too late (for example, I mailed mine from the main post office once and it turned out that they closed at 4:30 p.m. - which seems really early - whereas if I'd put it in my out basket at work, someone would have taken it to an open post office). Luckily that was some one-issue thing that won a million to nothing, and I haven't made that mistake since, but apparently the rejection rate is huge. Having to pay to vote is another annoyance - they have very few drop-off locations in King County.

And I want a sticker, too, damnit!

[Cal Carpenter]

4. Apparently exit polls say otherwise: "turnout among Democrats in Michigan down"

"Mainline Democrats account for more than eight in 10 Democratic primary voters in Mississippi and seven in 10 in Michigan, with turnout among Democrats in Michigan down (and turnout among independents up) from 2008."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-democrats-exit-poll-analysis/story?id=37493541

I don't know what that means, and I don't know how much the increased turnout among independents will impact things (although on the Dem side I assume it bodes well for Sanders).

I suppose the real numbers will show the truth once they are all tallied, but given the debacle in Michigan in 2008 (regarding the primary date change, Obama taking his name off the ballot and Hillary staying on, etc) I would have assumed that 2008's turnout wasn't all that great so to see that Dem turnout is even lower than that seems weird.

[Jbradshaw120]

8. I believe they mean

As a percentage of those voting in the dem primary. Meaning a larger part of the vote in the dem primary will be cast by independents.

[Cal Carpenter]

9. Yeah, I even started another thread about this to see

if anyone could suss it out or knew for sure. But that really is the only thing that makes sense. There doesn't seem to be a link on the article to actual data, and I'm too brain-dead to see if I can track it down.

It'll all be clear soon enough! If it is the influx of independents voting on the Dem ballot, then I think the results may be a lot closer than many were assuming based on recent polling.

[Jbradshaw120]

10. I absolutely

Agree with you on that.

[Merryland]

6. Please please please let Bernie take Michigan! n/t

[pat_k]

7. Great to hear! (nt)