My amazing experience voting this morning.

[naturalselection]

I live in a rural west-central Missouri county and have voted at the same location for the past 6 years. We vote in the basement of a rural church and our area tends to be heavy repub. I have voted in primaries, special elections, and national elections at this same location. Historically, there have been times when I was the only person voting when I was there (of course, this is a snapshot during my voting time).

This morning was different. My wife, son (7yrs. old) and I went to vote at 8am local time. When we arrived, there was not a parking place (which is extremely unusual at this location - usually you can drive right up and park). We ended up parking on the neighbors property where other people were parking. We walked up the church and surprisingly there was a line out the door! I had never seen this before - a line at my rural voting location!

The line moved very quickly - I could tell the folks working there were taking this very seriously and had prepared well for this event. Everyone was getting paper ballots. My son voted with me and I showed him Obama's name on the list and he said "Yea!" and we cast our vote for Senator Obama.

I really am excited! Seeing the line at our polling place made me extremely proud as I have NEVER seen a line when I was voting.

GOBAMA!

[AllegroRondo]

1. Im in Eastern MO, VERY heavy turnout here too.

i live in a tiny town about 45 minutes south of St Louis. normally we can get in and vote in 10 minutes or less. today, there were over 300 people in line when the doors opened at 6. amazing.

[RCinBrooklyn]

2. That's great news. Thanks for the report.