Alex Sink, our Chief Financial Officer, and an Obama surrogate is there and calling on Election Supervisor Buddy Johnson to add some booths. The 40,000 may include surrounding campuses, but there should be more than 3 booths.
Students wait for 3 polling boothsAt a student precinct for University of South Florida, the line is 2 hours long and growing. There are only three voting booths inside for two precincts voting. CFO Alex Sink is here as am Obama campaign surrogate: "This is ridiculous," she said. At a polling site for University of Florida on campus student voters, the line is 2 to 3 hours long and growing. There are only three voting booths inside for two precincts voting.
"I don't understand why there aren't more booths," said Ryan Russo, 18, who has already missed one class and has waited two hours. . "This is a college campus - a lot of people live here."
Poll deputy Opal Colvin said the number of booths was allocated to the site was based on past performance. "It used to be we'd get a trickle. This is a crush," she said. "Personally, I'm loving it."
Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, visiting polling sites as an Obama surrogate, said: "This is ridiculous," she said. She is calling on Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson to ask him to bring more booths.
Good for Alex. She is the wife of former gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, and is expected to run for governor someday.
The University of Central Florida in Orlando is not faring much better. I hope someone is there to speak up about it.
Three-hour wait at UCF arenaThe voting line at the UCF arena has reached an estimated 3 hours in length.
How do college students deal with it? Like they always do, by ordering pizza.
That’s what Jessica and Rebecca Glass and her friends did after waiting an hour in line.
An hour later they were still nibbling on pizza and thinking about history.
“People say that our generation, that we are not going to vote, that we just don’t care,
said Rebecca Glass, 18, a freshman from Coral Springs. “We will surprise them," said Rachel Perry, 18, a freshman from Venice.
I still believe that in our country there should be a way to vote without having such long lines.