Standing On Line For 4 And A Half Hours.

[Donal DeLay]

Take a chair with you when you go vote. Goddamn my feet hurt now.

:D

[Ryudo]

Wah, I'm getting to express my opinion in the most important presidential election since Clinton! Wah!

;)

[LordKinbote]

Take a chair with you when you go vote. Goddamn my feet hurt now.

:D

You voted on a Sunday?

[Patton]

Try canvassing all day and then standing for 3 hours waiting to hear some black dude speak!

[Dave S.]

I've never had to stand in line for more than 10 minutes tops to vote. Maybe this year will be different. It's a new polling place for me, and turn out is expected to be high. Or maybe New York State just knows how to handle this shit.

[Donal DeLay]

Wah, I'm getting to express my opinion in the most important presidential election since Clinton! Wah!

;) What can I say, I'm an American bitch.


You voted on a Sunday? Yup. early voting. Todayw as the last day.


Try canvassing all day and then standing for 3 hours waiting to hear some black dude speak! pft! It doesn't take me all day to prep a canvas. What are YOU painting on? ;)

[Donal DeLay]

I've never had to stand in line for more than 10 minutes tops to vote. Maybe this year will be different. It's a new polling place for me, and turn out is expected to be high. Or maybe New York State just knows how to handle this shit.

The reason it took so long is because unlike Hillsborough County, which has a LOT of stations, Pinellas County only has 3 early voting stations. In the entire county.

3.

[SgtPepper]

Take a chair with you when you go vote. Goddamn my feet hurt now.

:D

Plenty of time to make eggs
;-)

[lonesomefool]

Yeah, this is part of the reason I'm not looking forward to election day. I wont be taking time from work to do it, so I figure I will have about a two hour window to actually get to the polling place and vote. I'm not sure how it will be, it could be really bad if the college kids come out in large numbers, but by that same token this area is 2/3 Republican so that might cause the numbers to be a LITTLE lower. I dont know.

But yeah, not looking forward to it at all.

[Ryudo]

The reason it took so long is because unlike Hillsborough County, which has a LOT of stations, Pinellas County only has 3 early voting stations. In the entire county.

3.

Are you serious?

Someone needs to slap them.

WOW.

[shoelaceless]

I had to walk all the way to my mailbox to vote.

[Patton]

pft! It doesn't take me all day to prep a canvas. What are YOU painting on? ;)

Balack Obama.

[ClintP]

You are a better man than me. I detest waiting in lines and if I had to do that to vote, I wouldn't since I hate politics just a little less than waiting in lines.

[Jim.]

In line. You were standing IN LINE.

[Thommy Melanson]

In line. You were standing IN LINE.

He could have had a laptop with him.

Then he'd have been online.

[Matthew Brown]

Did an absentee ballot. On Tuesdays there's classes in the morning, work during the day, and classes at night... and no time to go wait in line to vote until after they're closed.

[ShortStack]

the obama campaign stopped me yesterday and was like
minion:"Are you free on the fourth?"
me: "to help with polling? I'm probably busy-"
minion: "You'd get to yell through a megaphone"
me: "okay!"
Seriously i'm not salivating after obama like my parents but I love megaphones.

[KingMob]

That has to be MURDER on your back man.

[jason hissong]

In line. You were standing IN LINE.

:lol:

[tstouder]

took my wife and I, 15 minutes total, from entering door to submitting ballot. early voting was nice 1.5 weeks ago here in Colorado. :)

[Donal DeLay]

Are you serious?

Someone needs to slap them.

WOW. Yup.


I had to walk all the way to my mailbox to vote. My wife didn't want to do that because when her father was in the Navy his entire unit mailled in their votes and they "got lost in the mail" so their vote didn't count. she wanted to make sure we didn't get lost in the shuffle.


In line. You were standing IN LINE. bah! You grow up with a mother from Chicago and see if you don't pick up some speech impediments like "youse guys" and "waiting on line." I know it's incorrect (although the term comes from immigrants waiting in line on Ellis Island, they actually stood on a line to tell them where to go.)

And technically, once I got into the building there was a line of blue tape on the ground so I WAS waiting on line. :p


That has to be MURDER on your back man. You have no idea. Then I went from there, to a diner to eat for 20minutes then to work for 3hrs.


took my wife and I, 15 minutes total, from entering door to submitting ballot. early voting was nice 1.5 weeks ago here in Colorado. :) My wife's co-worker lives in Hillsborough county, and since they have MANY stations at which to vote it took her less than an hour.

We have 3 in our county. One in St. Petersburg, near us.

[NATE!]

bah! You grow up with a mother from Chicago and see if you don't pick up some speech impediments like "youse guys" and "waiting on line." I know it's incorrect (although the term comes from immigrants waiting in line on Ellis Island, they actually stood on a line to tell them where to go.)



Oh, fuck that bullshit. I grew up in Kentucky and I forced myself to use proper grammar. :)



(....most of the time, anyway...)

[Donal DeLay]

Oh, fuck that bullshit. I grew up in Kentucky and I forced myself to use proper grammar. :)



(....most of the time, anyway...)bah!

I use proper grammar most of the time. One or two colloquialisms slip in. I don't even know why. I fuckin grew up in Japan and Florida. I've only been to Illinois (let alone Chicago) on vacations that never lasted more than a week!

[NATE!]

I fuckin grew up in Japan and Florida.

Cool.

.....

So you know the language of elderly Jewish tentacle monsters, then? :twisted:

[Donal DeLay]

Cool.

.....

So you know the language of elderly Jewish tentacle monsters, then? :twisted:
lol

[Jim.]

Yup.



bah! You grow up with a mother from Chicago and see if you don't pick up some speech impediments like "youse guys" and "waiting on line." I know it's incorrect (although the term comes from immigrants waiting in line on Ellis Island, they actually stood on a line to tell them where to go.)



My mother is from Chicago, as am I. I have never said waiting on line.

[Jason California]

I have never waited more than 20 min to vote.

[Ryan Elliott]

Goddamn. I hate waiting in lines.

[MabusRex]

Yup. early voting. Todayw as the last day.


And you waited 'til the last day because....?
;)

[RickLM]

Our township is really small, and we have lots of places to vote. I doubt it will take more than 15 minutes.

[Foolish Mortal]

And you waited 'til the last day because....?
;)
Because he didn't wait "on line" on Tuesday? :p

[Jason California]

Because he didn't wait "on line" on Tuesday? :p


I originally had a totally different thought on what this thread might be about because of the use of that word.

[TIP]

And you waited 'til the last day because....?
;)

His eggs weren"t done yet.

[Gavin]

I miss voting in Oregon. Mail-in ballots.

[CougarTrace]

Wah, I'm getting to express my opinion in the most important presidential election since Clinton! Wah!

;)

:-?

[Doug]

What's up with all this early voting this election?

I hadn't heard of it before. Is it something new or could people vote early for all elections?

And why can't people wait until the 4th like normal Americans? :mistrust:

I knew about mailing in absentee ballots, but not early voting.

I learn something new every election.

2000 I leard about hanging chads, and last election I learned about changing my address on my voter registration so I wouldn't have to travel back to where I grew up to vote.

[Patton]

What's up with all this early voting this election?

I hadn't heard of it before. Is it something new or could people vote early for all elections?

And why can't people wait until the 4th like normal Americans? :mistrust:

I knew about mailing in absentee ballots, but not early voting.

I learn something new every election.

2000 I leard about hanging chads, and last election I learned about changing my address on my voter registration so I wouldn't have to travel back to where I grew up to vote.
Obama is encouraging it more in case the GOP released the tape they have of Michelle Obama saying "Kill whitey!"

[Foolish Mortal]

What's up with all this early voting this election?

I hadn't heard of it before. Is it something new or could people vote early for all elections?

And why can't people wait until the 4th like normal Americans? :mistrust:

I knew about mailing in absentee ballots, but not early voting.

I learn something new every election.

2000 I leard about hanging chads, and last election I learned about changing my address on my voter registration so I wouldn't have to travel back to where I grew up to vote.
Seriously? You never heard of early voting before now? It varies from state to state, but most states have some kind of early voting.

Early voting is of great benefit to the elderly and disabled, and to those who have jobs in which they absolutely cannot leave and stand in line for hours. It is in my opinion one of the greatest implemented ideas to the voting process. And there's nothing "abnormal" about it.

[Donal DeLay]

And you waited 'til the last day because....?
;) We had other obligations to take care of before.


What's up with all this early voting this election? It's being encouraged by Obama. Also, people have shit to do on Tuesday, like work, so voting on the weekend is easier when you have to spend all day waiting on line at the polls.


I hadn't heard of it before. Is it something new or could people vote early for all elections? I think you could do this with all elections.


And why can't people wait until the 4th like normal Americans? :mistrust: Because a lot of people have weekends off, and would rather not take a day off work.


I knew about mailing in absentee ballots, but not early voting.

I learn something new every election.

2000 I leard about hanging chads, and last election I learned about changing my address on my voter registration so I wouldn't have to travel back to where I grew up to vote.

You can also change your info and request a mail-in ballot via local votefor(county) websites. I just learned that.

[LordKinbote]

It wasn't the fact that you voted early that piqued my curiosity, it was that it was on a Sunday. I know here in Omaha, the early polling is open Monday to Friday.

[Donal DeLay]

It wasn't the fact that you voted early that piqued my curiosity, it was that it was on a Sunday. I know here in Omaha, the early polling is open Monday to Friday.
Pinellas County was Friday Saturday and Sunday.

I think. I remember seeing a early voting hours sign on the courthouse door that had hours listed for those days only. Thursday may have been on there, but I only remember the weekend

It wouldn't surprise me if it was only 3 days, too. Pinellas county kinda sucks like that.