My Eyes Welled Up In The Voting Booth.

[cali]

Mostly it was gratitude. I wish you all could vote the way I vote, and have candidates that you vote for enthusiatically.

I walked into the Memorial Building, not an old building by New England standards- about a hundred years old, and constructed of granite blocks. You walk up to the voter check in table, and odds are somone there knows who you are. I was handed a large yellow sheet of paper, and proceeded to the voting booth. Well, it's not really a voting booth. It's this cardboard thing that looks more like a toy than anything else I marked my x by Bernie's name, and then proceeded to vote mostly dem. I did vote for a progressive in a state race. I folded the sheet of paper and slipped it into the ancient wooden box.

Turn out will be high here- it always is, and we can have faith that our votes will count.

I wish everyone could vote this way.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I wish I could vote like that as well.

[cobaindrain]

2. nice, old school voting

I trust this style more than any.

[mainegreen]

3. I love our paper balots in Maine.

Oversized, yellow and green with big ovoid circles to fill in with black felt pens.

Oldschool is the way to go!

[Warpy]

4. I voted like that on Cape Cod

and I miss it. Here, it was a folding table with CRT screen and poll worker who complained it had been so busy he hadn't had lunch, an optical scan ticket, a booth like the ones I'd last taken the SAT in, and a scanner to feed it into on the opposite side of the room.

It still beat the hell out of those damnable Sequoia machines that deleted the votes of over 17,000 of us in 2004. There's a possibility of a hand recount with paper ballots.

I wrote in my cat for one local office since the Dem is as crooked as a yellow dog's hind leg. Otherwise, it was a straight ticket. The Greens very wisely didn't field a single candidate this time.

I wasn't teary eyed. I was furious.

[tridim]

5. You're so lucky to have paper ballots

I voted on a push button DRE machine in Denver (I don't trust them at all), strait Dem and Yes on the Marijuana equalization initiative.

I always see neighbors there, and today was no exception. One neighbor asked where my dogs were, I told him they weren't registered to vote but they are Democrats. :) it's at least 70% Dem where I live.