I VOTED!
One more Georgia vote for Barack Obama! Woo-hoo!
Ben’s school was closed today, so I took some time from work and we went to the other little elementary school, where we vote. We went over at a little bit before 9:30 AM. The before-work voters had come and gone and the parking lot still have plenty of spaces. We walked right in, filled in our form, showed our id, got approved, and got in line for the machines. There were no more than a dozen people ahead of us.
Everything went smoothly. I would like to have had some kind of paper trail, but oh well – it’s Georgia.
They were so nice to have given Ben a sticker. They didn’t have to, because of course he can’t vote, but it made him feel included in the process. He’s been interested in the election. He doesn’t understand a lot about many of the issues, but he says he just likes Barack Obama.
Our neighborhood is roughly half-and-half. I’m not too worried about on the ground corruption in this part of town. I have the feeling Georgia might be close. Most of the polls seem to give McCain a 2-point edge, but I’ve seen a few that give Obama the same. I think it will depend on whether the Republicans turn out – and they don’t seem very energized here this year. There’s nothing on the ballot about gays or abortions, and they don’t really feel so strongly about things like giving educational funds to developers or mandating school uniforms. It will be very close in Georgia – both our Senators vote with Bush on everything – but I think there’s a good chance that Obama will take it.
I feel very good about the election, and I’m hopeful that we’ll be waving “bye-bye” to some of the more destructive representatives on the far right.
It’s going to be a very exciting night.
I am already proud that GA went from Red to a toss up state. I will be in awe if Obama wins this state.
I waited until this morning just before noon. I vot a small distance out of town. There was no wait and the voters were nearly outnumbered by pollworkers and observers. Down near campus where where all of the students vote, however, there are long lines snaking up and down North Patterson.
I also saw a story about something going wrong with registrations at Middle Georgia College in Cochran.
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Two days later, and Fulton county was still counting votes! I bet that made the voters feel good. Given the local news coverage of the early voting, I expected a meltdown on voting day, but the lines (at least in Roswell) were short.
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